You Don't Get the Love Mail: Rosanna Xia on Courage and Covering the California Coast
Summary
Should environmental storytelling focus on fear, hope, or something else? Rosanna Xia is an environmental reporter at the LA Times, the author of California Against the Sea, and director / producer of a new documentary film, Out of Plain Sight. In sixteen years of covering California's coast, she's learned how to help her readers not just learn something, but do something. On the latest episode of Earthworks, Rosanna and I talk about why journalists don’t get love mail, how war metaphors for climate change adaptation are problematic, and her dreams for geeking out with strangers on the beach.
Resources and interesting stuff from this episode
California Against the Sea: Rosanna’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated book about how Californians are grappling with sea level rise
Out of Plain Sight: Rosanna's documentary about an environmental disaster off the California coast
Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson's Ikigai Venn diagram: Find the overlap of what you're good at, what the world needs, and what brings you joy. Then do that
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Instagram: @rosanna.xia
