Nov 5, 2026 · 38 min · 12 segments
California’s beauty comes with risk. This week, host Beth Ruyak is in conversation with L.A. Times reporter Rong-Gong Lin II, who covers extreme weather, natural disasters and earthquakes. Lin…
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Beth RuyakHost
President Trump once made that comment about whether the leaves could be raped in a way that could prevent a fire risk.
What's the Sel Nino cycle? You just said the next couple years, but it's the next 10 years, the next number of decades.
We now have had a generation, maybe two generations of people who just haven't experienced what it's been like in a major urban earthquake.
So do you think there can be a balance between awareness of looming disasters and hope?
And I think part of it, it just has to be comfortable with just a little bit of stress.
That's the California in the spotlight when the policy is about preventing natural disasters and managing those that do happen right in the midst of the beauty.
President Trump once made that comment about whether the leaves could be raped in a way that could prevent a fire risk.
What's the Sel Nino cycle? You just said the next couple years, but it's the next 10 years, the next number of decades.
We now have had a generation, maybe two generations of people who just haven't experienced what it's been like in a major urban earthquake.
So do you think there can be a balance between awareness of looming disasters and hope?
And I think part of it, it just has to be comfortable with just a little bit of stress.
That's the California in the spotlight when the policy is about preventing natural disasters and managing those that do happen right in the midst of the beauty.
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