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Ecology of Fear Book
The 1990s have not been kind to Los Angeles. As Mike Davis writes: "The destructive February 1992, January 1993 and January 1995 floods ($500 million damage) were mere brackets around the April 1992 insurrection ($1 billion), the October-November 1993 firestorms ($1 billion) and the January 1994 earthquake ($42 billion)." But, he argues, the increasing fear about nature's reign of terror in Southern California reflected in Hollywood's preoccupation with apocalypse--L.A. has been destroyed on screen by everything from lava (Volcano) to nukes (Miracle Mile) to alien death rays (Independence Day)--is in reality a strong case of denial. Again, Davis himself says it best: "For generations, market-driven urbanisation has transgressed environmental common sense. Historic wildfire corridors have … read more...
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