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East Palo Alto Faces Rising Seas, Displacement

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6656 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Some East Palo Alto residents--who came to California after fleeing sea level rise in their Pacific Island homes--are finding they may soon be climate refugees for a second time.   More than half of the city is vulnerable to flood, with seas predicted to rise by 2 feet by the year 2050 and possibly 7 feet by 2100.  We’ll talk about KQED’s series “Fighting to Stay: Climate Solutions in East Palo Alto” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQED. Welcome back to Forum.

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I'm Priya David Clemens, filling in for the week.

1:14.0

I typically host KQED Newsroom on the TV side, but since we're on hiatus, right now I get to be here with you.

1:21.4

And we're going to be turning now to East Palo Alto, where some residents who came to California

1:26.5

after fleeing sea level rise in their

1:29.1

Pacific Island homes are finding they may soon be climate refugees for a second time.

1:36.1

I decided to live because it's too much. And then we come here to America and here is this.

1:42.2

More than half of the city is vulnerable to flood, with seas predicted to rise by two feet

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by the year 2050 and possibly seven feet by 2100.

1:52.9

We're going to dive into KQED's series, Fighting to Stay, Climate Solutions in East Palo Alto.

1:58.6

Joining us now to talk about East Palo Alto facing rising seas and displacement,

2:03.2

our Ezra Dave Romero, our new climate reporter here at KQED. Ezra, welcome to the show. Welcome to KQED.

2:09.9

Thanks for having me. And Violet Saena, the director of climate resilient communities. Violet,

2:16.0

thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. Violet, thank you for being with us.

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Thank you for having me.

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