A Slow-Moving Disaster in California
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The state of California has 1,200 miles of heavily populated coastline that is casually slipping into the sea.
Rosanna Xia, an environment reporter for the Los Angeles Times, has been writing for years about all of the ways erosion along this border between ocean and land imperils people and places on a day-to-day basis. Now she has written a book about what’s on the horizon for this slow rolling disaster and what it means for California’s very notion of itself: California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline.
We caught up with Xia to ask about the dynamism of the California coastline and which stories and
