For two decades she [Laura Paskus] has been sounding the alarm about the devastating effects that our massive input of carbon into the atmosphere will have on the Land of Enchantment.--Weekly Alibi
At the Precipice
New Mexico's Changing Climate
Description
At the Precipice explores the question many of us have asked ourselves: What kind of world are we leaving to our children? The realities of climate change consume the media and keep us up at night worrying about the future. But in New Mexico and the larger Southwest, climate change has been silently wreaking havoc: average temperatures in the Upper Rio Grande Basin are increasing at double the global average, super fires like Las Conchas have devastated mountains, and sections of the Rio Grande are drying up.
Laura Paskus has tracked the issues of climate change at both the state and federal levels. She shares the frightening truth, both in terms of what is happening in nature and what is not happening to counteract the mounting crisis. She writes, “I wonder about the coming world. Which trees will grow, which birds will have survived. . . . The door to that new world has opened. And there’s no going back.” And yet our future is not yet determined—or is it?
Reviews
[Laura Paskus] has become one of the Southwest's foremost chroniclers of climate change and ecological collapse.--Nick Bowlin, High Country News
[Laura Paskus] has become one of the Southwest's foremost chroniclers of climate change and ecological collapse.--Nick Bowlin, High Country News
Environmental journalist and correspondent Laura Paskus, who tracks climate change at both state and federal levels, lucidly presents a disconcerting reality. . . . Her eye-opening book is also a call to action and stewardship to help save our precious, imperiled land and to provide a better world for future generations.--Brian Nelson, Santa Fean
