What Sea Level Rise Means for the Bay Area: Rosanna Xia & Liam O’Donoghue
October 28 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Wherever land meets sea, heating oceans swell into higher-than-high tides and city-leveling storms. For the last hundred years, however, California’s 1,200-mile Pacific coastline had enjoyed relative calm, but shifting tides exacerbated by climate change are bringing this serene century to a screeching close. In California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline, now releasing in paperback and audiobook, Pulitzer finalist Rosanna Xia dives deep into the stakes, stopgaps, and potential paths forward for the 27 million people who call this coastline home.
In this conversation with East Bay Yesterday‘s Liam O’Donoghue, Xia dials her lens into the Bay Area to explore what warming oceans mean for our region and how we can prepare. The two will explore how low-income communities have borne the brunt of environmental challenges in the past and are poised to do so again unless we course correct now, drawing inspiration from local leaders and organizers who are raising awareness today for what may come tomorrow.
Xia’s book, declared a 2024 Great Read from Great Places by the Library of Congress, and winner of the California Book Award, the Nautilus Book Award, and the Golden Poppy (voted on by more than 230 independent booksellers), will be available for sale and signing following the conversation.