A review by leasummer
California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Changing Coastline by Rosanna Xia

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

This was an interesting look at small portions of the California seascape. The focus was on Palisades/Malibu for the first half and San Fransisco in the second half. That is a very small portion of California’s coastline. The stories were about the how folks have worked to try to save the beach, mostly all failures - for both environmental and political reasons. 
There wasn’t a lot of hope or plan of action. 

I did read it during the LA fires of 2025 which I’m sure impacted some of my feelings as my mental image of Malibu right now is smoldering rubble.