“Ecology of Fear” is essential reading for all angelinos and those living in LA. No book captures my feelings of the city more than Mike Davis, marxist historian and ecological sociologist, and we’re damn lucky to have had his extraordinary attention placed there. His framework and analysis turns hyperbole into existential materialism, its tagline: “In effect, we think ourselves gods upon the land but are still really just tourists.” This book just so happens to have a date of publication, but its contents will never be irrelevant, especially one of the great essays of all time, “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn.”