Produced by KSQD 90.7, 89.5 & 89.7FM 

“Be Bold America!” Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT)

“The coast is never saved. It’s always being saved” - Rosanna Xia

Along California’s 1,200-mile coastline, the overheated Pacific Ocean is rising and pressing in, imperiling both wildlife and the maritime towns and cities that 27 million people call home. 

What are the impacts of engineered landscapes, the market pressures of development, and the ecological activism and political scrimmages that have carved up our contemporary coastline? Do they foretell even greater changes to our shores?

 Hear about the beaches from the Mexican border to the sheer-cliffed North Coast; from the voices of Indigenous leaders, community activists, small town mayors, urban engineers, and tenacious environmental scientists on the challenges and urgency of forging a climate-wise future.

Interview Guest:

Rosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for explanatory reporting, and her work has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing series. Her award-winning book, California Against the Sea, has been praised as a beautiful and revelatory exploration of how we relate to the natural world.