At the Precipice
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At the Precipice

New Mexico's Changing Climate

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

At the Precipice

New Mexico's Changing Climate

About this book

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?

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Information

Publisher
UNM Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780826359117
eBook ISBN
9780826359124

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. The New Normal
  12. 2. The Old Normal, or Politics as Usual
  13. 3. What We Leave Behind
  14. 4. Mourning a Mountain
  15. 5. Climate of Faith
  16. 6. No Way Back
  17. 7. Red Flag Winter
  18. 8. Running Dry
  19. 9. “Hot Drought” and Dry Rivers
  20. 10. “It’s Not Doomsville Yet”
  21. Afterword
  22. Notes
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index