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I’ve seen ordinary people do the most heroic things. How do you deal with a future that feels so bleak?įor someone my age who was in the civil rights movement, and in other struggles of the 1960s, I’ve seen miracles happen. You’ve been organizing for social change your whole life. The climate crisis, migration crisis and pandemic have shown us the truth about how supposedly democratic states react to globally threatening events: they pull up the drawbridge. A small group of people have more concentrated power over the human future than ever before in human history, and they have no vision, no strategy, no plan. Our ruling classes everywhere have no rational analysis or explanation for the immediate future. Greenwashing has reached a disgusting extent.

It’s easier for politicians to say they’re supporting electric vehicles. It’s not just global warming, and drought, it’s the fact that two-thirds of the new homes built in the American west are in high fire-hazard areas, and the Democrats refuse to talk about a moratorium on construction or even rolling back construction in the urban-wildlife interface. Photograph: Reed Saxon/APīut we’ve passed the tipping points in so many ways, and we’re doing so many of the wrong things. Every time there’s a fire, he’s out there saying, ‘This is global warning, and we’re ahead of the pack on this, we’re setting the best example.’Ī mansion destroyed by the 2018 Woolsey wildfire in Malibu. Newsom is going to run for president, partly on his achievements in fighting global warming in California. What do you think about California’s responses to this destruction? And that, of course, is happening everywhere in the world. There’s so much I wish my kids could see, could have seen, that they’ll not see. Hiking, mountain running, traveling all over the state.

I’ve exulted in the beauty of California my entire life.

How much of the beauty of the state might disappear for ever. I wrote a piece in the Nation on why these changes are irreversible. What I think about more often than anything else these days is the death of California. Just a few months before January 6, you warned that the American left was unprepared for the country’s “ increasing levels of social violence”. In 2005, you wrote a book, Monster at the Door, about the threat of a flu pandemic. You’ve made your reputation as a historian with an uncanny knack for seeing what’s next. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Over the course of more than eight hours, he regaled me with tales from his childhood as a working-class kid growing up in El Cajon his decades of activism in the civil rights and labor movements how his work as a truck driver and Los Angeles bus tour operator influenced his late-in-life writing career and his thoughts on youth activism, the climate crisis, and what it feels like for your life to end at a grim moment in history.ĭavis was wary of being too grandiose about his own death – “People don’t write their own legacy, for chrissakes” – and feared the morphine he takes for pain might dull his encyclopedic memory or oratorical flair. I interviewed Davis at his San Diego home in early August, alongside his wife, Alessandra Moctezuma, an art curator and professor. What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict This summer, the 76-year-old stopped treatment for esophageal cancer and began palliative care, giving him an estimated six to nine months to live. As California struggles with soaring wealth inequality and homelessness, new protests over police violence erupt, and the mansions of Malibu burn again and again, his writing has only become more relevant.Īll this comes as Mike Davis is dying. But in recent years, Davis’s warnings of ecological and social destruction have begun to sound increasingly prophetic. He was branded “ the prophet of doom” and some called him too critical, a delusional lefty.