Laura Paskus, At the Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate

Sunday, September 20, 2020 - 3:00pm

Laura Paskus talks about her new UNM Press book, At the Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate.

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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 the history of the future has not yet been written-or has it?

"As Laura Paskus makes clear, the stakes of climate change in the American Southwest couldn't be higher. Deeply reported and vividly written, At the Precipice is an important contribution to the literature of our reckless age."--Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Laura Paskus is an environmental journalist and a correspondent whose work has been widely published. She is the producer of New Mexico In Focus's series "Our Land: New Mexico's Environmental Past, Present, and Future."

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At the Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate By Laura Paskus Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9780826359117
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Published: University of New Mexico Press - September 15th, 2020