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Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

book by Mike Davis

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    In 1998’s Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, he showed how the city’s built environment was exacerbating natural disasters, including fire and drought. In its most famous chapter, “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn,” he argued that precious city resources, which were desperately…

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