Rosanna Xia on California's 'Vanishing Coastline'

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🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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California’s coast is vanishing, surely and no longer so slowly, writes LA Times environment reporter Rosanna Xia. By the end of the century, climate change and storm and tidal patterns could cause sea levels in California to rise by as much as seven feet, destroying coastal towns and causing billions in damages. But Xia says it’s not too late to chart a different course. We’ll talk to Xia about California communities that are managing sea level rise successfully and about strategies – like seawalls and sand replenishment – that may need to be reconsidered. And we’ll learn why Xia wants us to adopt a deeper way of thinking about our coastline, one that would reframe sea level rise as “an opportunity to mend our fractured relationship with the shore.” Xia’s new book is “California Against the Sea.” Guests: Rosanna Xia, staff writer, Los Angeles Times. Her new book is "California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.9	Coming up on Forum, a deep dive into the impact of sea level rise
0:56.0	on California's fabled coast. L.A. Times Environment reporter Rosanna Shaw writes that by the end of this
1:02.3	century, climate change and storm and tidal patterns could cause sea levels in California to rise by
1:08.6	as much as seven feet inundating coastal towns and causing
1:12.5	billions and damages. But Shah says it's not too late to chart a different course. We'll talk with
1:18.3	Shaw about visiting cities and towns along the more than thousand miles that make up California's
1:22.9	coastline and what it taught her about a way forward in our battle with the rising sea. Join us.
1:32.6	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. California's coast is vanishing. Surely and no longer so slowly, says L.A. Times Environment reporter
1:46.1	Rosanna Shaw. Rising seas are causing collapsed buildings, flooded roads, shattered sea walls.
1:52.8	But Shaw says there are California communities that are managing sea level rise successfully and challenging
1:57.8	us to adopt a deeper way of thinking about our coastline.
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