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Mike Davis was right about L.A.'s wildfires - so what?

Mike Davis was right about L.A.'s wildfires - so what?

Returning to 1998's "Ecology of Fear"

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Brendan Dentino
Jan 12, 2025
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Altadena after the Eaton fire. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

A real Mike Davis kind of day.

A friend in Los Angeles, a fellow Davis acolyte, texted me that amid the city’s recent fires. It prompted me to pull from my bookshelf Davis’s Ecology of Fear and reread the most prescient, enduring, and controversial thing Davis had ever written: an ess…

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