BellingenNSW<p>The Case for Letting Malibu Burn<br>Bushfires and sprawl: Man-made catastrophes and cultural narratives</p><p>The lethal mixture of home ownership and the bush: Neighborhoods on fire.<br>"Since 1993. almost half of California’s new homes have been built in fire hazard areas...Commercial greed over common sense and the social good."</p><p>The aristocratisation of the coast<br>"In a feverish buying and selling of land, the coast has become utterly transformed and unrecognizable. Each succeeding house, bigger and grander, takes the view of its neighbors in a kind of unbridled competition.… Once lost, paradise can never be regained.… Developers have bulldozed the Santa Monicas beyond recovery."<br>>><br>Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear: The Case for Letting Malibu Burn. 1998<br><a href="https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-c</span><span class="invisible">ase-for-letting-malibu-burn/</span></a></p><p>Ecology of Fear: Mike Davis’ history of LA and natural disaster is re-read whenever fire rages in California >><br><a href="https://theconversation.com/ecology-of-fear-mike-davis-history-of-la-and-natural-disaster-is-re-read-whenever-fire-rages-in-california-247101" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/ecology-of</span><span class="invisible">-fear-mike-davis-history-of-la-and-natural-disaster-is-re-read-whenever-fire-rages-in-california-247101</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bushfires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/fires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/firestorms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firestorms</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/sprawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sprawl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>housing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/suburbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suburbs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/mansions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mansions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/OverDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OverDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/coast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NSW</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/disasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disasters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/gridlocked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gridlocked</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/highways" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>highways</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/landslides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landslides</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/WUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WUI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Holocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holocene</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/folly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folly</span></a></p>