The world shouldn’t risk watching a Games sequel to today’s real-life disaster movie. California has been building up a tinderbox for decades and wildfires are now a year-round phenomenon there
Columnist based in Pennsylvania
The Palisades wildfires have taken out a big chunk of Malibu. A decade after the 1984 LA Olympics, scholar and activist Mike Davis had famously argued The Case for Letting Malibu Burn. He wrote that periodic firestorms of magnitude are inevitable as long as residential development is tolerated in the fire ecology of the Santa Monicas.
The Palisades wildfires have taken out a big chunk of Malibu. A decade after the 1984 LA Olympics, scholar and activist Mike Davis had famously argued The Case for Letting Malibu Burn. He wrote that periodic firestorms of magnitude are inevitable as long as residential development is tolerated in the fire ecology of the Santa Monicas.