This month we will discuss California Against the Sea – Visions for our Vanishing Coastline by Rosanna Xia. In this compelling book, Xia outlines how The Golden State’s complex economic, political, and social dynamics pose challenges—and potential solutions—to an ongoing struggle to confront an impending future haunted by rising seas.

Excerpt from Heyday publisher website: 

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. 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… Through graceful reportage, she charts how the decisions we make today will determine where we go tomorrow: headlong into natural disaster, or toward an equitable refashioning of coastal stewardship. 

Date: Sunday, May 26

Time: 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.  

Location: online meeting; details emailed with registration confirmation

Cost: free to FOCC members; $5 donation appreciated for non-members

Ages: 12 and up

Maximum attendees: 25

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