Last semester in my Environmental History class we read Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. He has a whole chapter on fires in Southern California, and a week after we discussed the Malibu mansions that stubbornly keep reappearing, fires went raging through the region. But I guess that's sort of a yearly occurrence.
Yesterday in my Early American Republic class we talked about the New Madrid earthquake of 1812. It shook about half the continent. And my professor mentioned something about how no one ever talks about the New Madrid fault line in the Midwest, but that surely it will move again. And what happened early this morning? There was an earthquake.
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