It’s a truth, and yet most refuse to admit it: the apocalyptic fires devouring the city of Los Angeles, where I was born, are only an exaggerated manifestation of the norm in the region.
Donald Trump accuse [le gouverneur] Gavin Newsom – it’s his reflex as soon as something bad happens in California. From the same political anger comes the reaction of Rick Caruso, this ex-Republican turned Democrat, who holds responsible the mayor of L. A., Karen Bass, a Democrat who beat him in the last municipal elections. Logically, the editorialists of the Wall Street Journal should soon blame the New Deal, and Catholics who follow the Latin Mass, Pope Francis.
If there is one person, however, whose analyzes can be taken seriously, it is the late Mike Davis [chercheur indépendant en sciences sociales, disparu en 2022]. After City of Quartz. Los Angeles, capital of the future [1990, traduit chez La Découverte en 1997]his dissection of the megalopolis to wide critical success, he published in 2000 Ecology of Fear [“Écologie de la peur”, inédit en français]where he looked at the apocalypses inherent to life in Los Angeles.
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