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SAN DIEGO — Mike Davis, an author, activist and self-defined “Marxist environmentalist” whose greatest fears drove him to anticipate riots, fires and disease in such bestsellers as “City of Quartz”
<p>"Mike hated being called “a prophet of doom.” Yes, LA did explode two years after <em>City of Quartz</em>; the fires and floods did get more intense after <em>Ecology of Fear</em>, and of course a global pandemic did follow <em>The Monster at Our Door</em>."</p>
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mike Davis, an author, activist and self-defined “Marxist environmentalist” whose greatest fears drove him to anticipate riots, fires and disease in such bestsellers as “City of Quartz” and “The Ecology of Fear,” has died at age 76.
Author, activist and self-defined “Marxist environmentalist” Mike Davis has died at 76. Davis died Tuesday after a long battle with esophageal cancer according to his friend Jon Wiener. Davis' greatest fears drove him to anticipate riots, fires and disease in such bestsellers as “City of Quartz” and “The Ecology of Fear.” Published in 1990, “City of Quartz” portrayed Los Angeles as a “carceral” society overseen by an oppressive police force. The police beating of Rodney King in 1991 and the riots following the 1992 acquittal of his attackers made his book seem like pro...
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Mike Davis, an author, activist and self-defined "Marxist environmentalist" whose greatest fears drove him to anticipate riots, fires