At the Precipice - by Laura Paskus (Paperback)

About the Book

At the Precipice explores the question many of us have asked ourselves: What kind of world are we leaving to our children?

Book Synopsis

At the Precipice explores the question many of us have asked ourselves: What kind of world are we leaving to our children?

Review Quotes

[Laura Paskus] has become one of the Southwest's foremost chroniclers of climate change and ecological collapse.--Nick Bowlin, High Country News

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

Carrying readers into conversations with experts in hydrology, forestry, and agriculture, [Laura Paskus] translates scientific concepts into easily understood realities. . . . Throughout, she leavens the dire outlook with lyrical descriptions of the land she loves best.--Kate Nelson, New Mexico Magazine

Climate change is global, but it is also surely local. Paskus shares the science and her love for imperiled New Mexico in a way that brings this story to our own doorsteps.--John Fleck, coauthor of Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River

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

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

Paskus illuminates the devasting impacts of climate change on New Mexico. These lessons are important for all decision-makers in the American Southwest.--Bradley Udall, senior water and climate research scientist at the Colorado Water Institute

With investigative journalistic precision and rhetorical verve, Laura Paskus's debut . . . traverses with clarity the past decade of environmental stewardship--or, more accurately, the lack thereof--in the Southwest.--Andrew Gun, Daily Lobo

About the Author

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.