Rosanna Xia in conversation with Michelle Nijuis, discussing California Against the Sea, published by Heyday.

Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., Portland, OR.

In California Against the Sea, Los Angeles Times coastal reporter Rosanna Xia asks: as climate chaos threatens the places we love so fiercely, will we finally grasp our collective capacity for change? Xia, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, investigates the impacts of engineered landscapes, the market pressures of development, and the ecological activism and political scrimmages that have carved our contemporary coastline — and foretell even greater changes to our shores. From the beaches of the Mexican border up to the sheer-cliffed North Coast, the voices of Indigenous leaders, community activists, small-town mayors, urban engineers, and tenacious environmental scientists commingle. Together, they chronicle the challenges and urgency of forging a climate-wise future.

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