Climate Fix: Artists Imagine the Bay Area’s Future After Sea-Level Rise

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🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Sea-level rise is already causing harm in the Bay Area, but it’s hard to picture what’s yet to come. Some Bay Area artists are using their crafts to imagine what our region might look like as waters continue to rise: drowned cities, hills turned into islands, and more commuting by boat. These visions of the future are manifested through graphic images, art installations and storytelling. For our latest installment of Climate Fix, Forum’s regular collaboration with KQED’s Science team, we’ll hear from the artists grappling with sea-level rise. Guests: Ezra David Romero, climate reporter, KQED Kristina Hill, director, Institute for Urban and Regional Development, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley Ana Teresa Fernández, artist, creator of the "On the Horizon" art installation that has been displayed on beaches in California, Mexico and at the San Francisco Cliff House. Nicole Gluckstern, playwright and director of "The Forever Wave," an audio play set in San Francisco in 2070 after major sea-level rise. Brian Stokle, urban planner and cartographer, co-created a series of poster maps that depict the Bay Area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.1	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:02.9	It's one thing to know that sea level rise has been happening and that scientists anticipate that it'll accelerate over the coming decades.
1:07.0	You can read reports and parsed charts,
1:10.2	but does that get you any closer to feeling the
1:12.9	reality of this effect of climate change? In today's edition of Climate Fix, our regular
1:17.6	collaboration with the KQED science team, we talk with artists who have been creating work to
1:22.5	help us all understand sea level rise more viscerally. From a radio play to a legendary map of the San Francisco archipelago to an installation
1:31.7	at Ocean Beach, we're talking art and climate change.
1:34.7	That's all coming up next after this news.
2:01.5	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. I'm joined this morning in the studio by Ezra David Romero, Climate Reporter with KQED, and a regular on Climate Fix Forum's collaboration with our science team here at the station. Thanks so much for joining us, Ezra.
2:09.1	Hey there. So Ezra, you've been reporting on sea level rise for some time, but it's still measured in inches, not feet. In what ways is it visible and in what ways is it still kind of seem
2:15.0	abstract? I think for most people it's not visible because it's happening on the fringes of the bay.
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