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OpEd: The Case For Letting Malibu Burn – Press California
The only solution is to stop rating my fire insurance in a city of concrete with those in fire prone areas. They use my low risk to pad their high risk customers.
Again, Chuckiechan Sixpack is getting boned by the elitists who run the insurance companies. It is probably not legal in California to pick and choose who you insure and who you don't. So I say, let them burn, then turn the area in to a public campground.
The need to change the state seal from EUREKA to BOHICA!
During fire season, I always think about Mike Davis, author of one of the most — pardon the pun — incendiary essays in the annals of SoCal letters: “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn.” I return to this chapter from his book “Ecology of Fear” any time that the Santa Ana winds howl and thousands flee raging infernos — a ritual that used to happen every couple of years but now seems to happen every couple of months.
“The Case for Letting Malibu Burn” is a powerhouse of history, science, Marxist analysis — and a certain amount of trolling. Its main point is that Southern Californians will never accept that fire is not only common here, but part of our ecology going back centuries. To spend millions saving homes in areas never meant for neighborhoods and power lines is not just folly, but a waste of public resources.
The only solution is to stop rating my fire insurance in a city of concrete with those in fire prone areas. They use my low risk to pad their high risk customers.
Again, Chuckiechan Sixpack is getting boned by the elitists who run the insurance companies. It is probably not legal in California to pick and choose who you insure and who you don't. So I say, let them burn, then turn the area in to a public campground.
The need to change the state seal from EUREKA to BOHICA!