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  "The Case For Letting Malibu Burn" by Mike Davis argues that the wildfires in Southern California persist due to a complex web of causes that cannot be easily mitigated or cured. The article points out that land use decisions, urban sprawl, and a culture of fire suppression have made wildfires progressively larger, more frequent, and more destructive. Additionally, climate change has made Southern California's climate more incendiary. The article suggests that the solution to the wildfire problem may require rethinking our relationship with nature and acknowledging the open, developing, and unpredictable system of nature and human relationships.

  The ritual view of nature encourages an attitude of contempt for “mere nature,” of which we are supposedly superior. But the idea of “nature” as an enclosed system, an organism or even an ecosystem, has always been misleading, because it ignores the true source of material wealth, which is the open, developing and unpredictable system of nature and human relationships, including the institutions and cultures that shape our perceptions and experiences of the world. In Southern California, nature, society and economy exist in a condition of relentless and mutually intensifying chaos. Consider the multiple wildfires that have now formed a ring of fire around Los Angeles, closing the 101 freeway and chasing tens of thousands of people from their homes. Why do they persist? Are they the result of urban sprawl, of global warming, of the maleficence of the Santa Ana winds? Of course, yes, but also of deeper and much more insidious causes that can’t be easily or quickly mitigated, much less