The True Horror of Sunny Santa Cruz
The City’s Residents Feel Powerless Over Their Future—From Housing to Climate Change
Is Santa Cruz the scariest place in California?
For sure, this state’s 21st-century reality is frightening: from the persecution of immigrants to the droughts and wildfires made worse by climate change. But there is simply no place in our state scarier than this coastal county of 275,000 tortured souls.
Santa Cruz is not our most dangerous or damaged place, but it comes very close to embodying the greatest fears of Californians, which are all about our powerlessness: that our coastal beauty is collapsing underneath us, that we’ve lost control over …