Lessons of 'Arborgeddon'
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 02:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Angelenos' desire for an urban forest is sweet but unrealistic, as the recent Big Blow showed. Let's rethink our approach to L.A. trees.There's a part of us that secretly likes disasters. Well, maybe not so secretly. That's why Joan Didion's famous riff on the Santa Ana winds — "the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse" — is hauled out several times a year to explain what L.A. is all about. It's our rep and we stand by it.