Ecology of Fear.
Tornadoes appear in a climate supposedly free of the pernicious funnels.
Natural disaster as environmental commonplace contributes to an expectation of the inevitability of natural and human-made disasters in the L.A. Basin. The resulting mind-set legitimizes the view that L.A. is headed for a cosmic as well as geological day of reckoning. No sci-fi speculation on society's future, this book is an exploration of how a strange but beautiful climactic oddity has combined with a devolving social climate to create expectations of impending doom. Eco-terror at its finest.