The largest clean energy investment the U.S. has made, the Inflation Reduction Act, IRA, is now a year old. President Joe Biden was recently in New Mexico touting the benefits of the IRA. As 350 New Mexico says on its website, “The IRA offers consumers, companies and contractors a once…
Our planet is our life support system and we have interfered with its complex mechanisms in ways we do not understand. Our finite brains are not designed to comprehend complexity at this level. We need a full systems-level view of our world. AI — artificial intelligence — will not solve…
According to the New Mexico State Wetland Summary, we used to have about a million acres of wetlands. We have lost 52%. Now only 0.6% of our land base is wetland. In our high desert communities those remaining should be considered our crown jewels. They have always been vulnerable, but…
I recently heard a TED talk by Yuval Noah Harari, the historian and author who wrote “Sapiens.” I was struck by what he said. “If Humanity invests just an extra 2% of the global GDP in developing eco-friendly technologies and infrastructure every year, this would be enough to prevent catastrophic…
It seems like we have entered a new political landscape. Our governor, who has been considered a climate-change leader, just vetoed most of the climate change legislation passed by our House and Senate this session. And she did so with very little explanation, suggesting these bills were not “sustainable.” Most…
Climate anxiety or eco-anxiety is experienced as stress, fear, and worry about current and future effects of climate change. It is based on a real threat and is a rational response to the world we live in. Floods, fires, heat waves and massive storms have already caused hundreds of thousands…
Most of the climate change news is not good. In fact, there is a daily barrage of troubling climate data that tell us the future will be exceedingly challenging. We already face multiple and costly climate disasters ranging from record heatwaves to massive flooding. But, now and then, there is…
Geoengineering may be in your future. Geoengineering involves such untested sunlight reflection technology as stratospheric injection of sulfur dioxide, marine cloud brightening and massive sunshields. It is a scary topic, but we need to pull our heads out of the sand and take a hard look at it. Annual temperatures…
Like many of you, I decided I would reduce my fossil fuel dependence with a switch from a gas-guzzler to a small hybrid car. Even though I have rooftop solar, I wasn’t quite ready to go fully electric. I ordered a Honda Insight early last year and it came in…
If you ask who is responsible for climate change and who should pay, you get a lot of finger-pointing. Those responsible do not want to pony up their fair share – that includes most of us. Consider that 23 rich, developed countries make up only 12% of the world’s population…
