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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yall need to read this. These homes have no business being in Malibu and they do not need our sympathy.

https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/

When most of us build or buy a home, we carefully appraise the neighborhood. In Malibu the neighborhood is fire. Fire that revisits the coastal mountains several times a decade. In the past sixty years, ten of these frequent events have turned into all-consuming firestorms. The latest conflagration, the Woolsey Fire, has incinerated 1,500 homes and killed at least three people. It started in dry grasslands just south of Simi Valley, the site of the notorious trial of Rodney King’s assailants, then crossed a freeway to ignite dense coastal sage vegetation on the northern flank of the Santa Monica Mountains. The range’s deep canyons, perfectly aligned with the seasonal Santa Ana Winds, once again as bellows, accelerating the fire’s rush to the coast where it burned beach homes. The large number of residences lost attests not only to the ferocity of the conflagration but also to the amount of new construction since the 1993 firestorm.

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You’ll forgive me if I am not immediately ready to embrace Mike Davis as truth teller in view of his extremely messy personal life, history of suspiciously self-beneficial political action, and self-description as a “critical geography Marxist.”

Doesn’t anybody on DCUM exercise even the slightest critical thought any more? Or do you just believe any random link that gets thrown up here?

Consider sources, PP. Consider sources. I’m willing to bet you’d never even heard of Mike Davis before you shared that link. [/quote]
DCUM seems to be overrun with science deniers and people unwilling to use critical thinking. They just peck away relentlessly with misinformation and insults. People that care about facts eventually give up because it’s exhausting. [/quote]

I mean, yes? That still doesn’t magically turn Mike Davis into a credible source. [/quote]
I was agreeing that he’s not credible and answering thus:
[i] Doesn’t anybody on DCUM exercise even the slightest critical thought any more?[/i][/quote]

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