Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast Mike Davis : LA IMC
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Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast Mike Davis : LA IMC
There is a non-linear relationship between the age structure of vegetation and the intensity of fires. Fifty-year-old trees burn fifty times more intensely than twenty-year-old trees. However, because of the power of influential residents living in the Malibu region, since 1919 the local policy has been one of ‘total fire suppression’. This means
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