Fri, Oct 09
|Zoom
Laura Paskus At The Precipice, in conversation with Valerie Rangel Environmental Justice in NM
Two of New Mexico’s important voices on environmental and climate justice, journalist, and author, Laura Paskus, and author, public health research consultant, and advocate, Valerie Rangel will engage in a conversation based upon their books and the times in which we find ourselves.
Date, Time & Location
Oct 09, 2020, 6:00 PM
Zoom
About the Event
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At the Precipice, by Laura Paskus, 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…