‘The Permian Climate Bomb’ 

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Oil Change International, Earthworks, and Center for International Environmental Law are launching the first in a series of installments of a major online report today.

The Permian Climate Bomb is a creative storytelling project developed in collaboration with artists, illustrating the environmental injustice and climate damages caused by barely-regulated oil and gas production in the United States, from New Mexico to the Gulf Coast.  The project aims to break down this multifaceted issue, with the goal of bringing it to the forefront of the fight against the climate crisis.

Part One of this series is launching today with the multimedia Permian Climate Bomb website, and reveals the Permian Basin has grown more than 500% in the past decade — and is still expected to grow aggressively in the coming decade, posing a major risk to President Biden’s and the world’s climate agenda.

The first section of the report is accessible at PermianClimateBomb.org in both English and Spanish, and Parts Two through Six of the series will be released in coming weeks. Please let me know if you have any questions, and thanks in advance for sharing!

 

Sister Joan Brown: Global Faith Community Speaks Out ahead of Climate Conference

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Sister Joan Brown, osf, executive director of New Mexico Interfaith Power & Light wrote an opinion piece for the Gallup Independent about the commitments by faith leaders around the world to address climate change ahead of the the 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland from Oct. 31-Nov.12.  The article is entitled “Did you miss a critical event this week?” Here is an excerpt:

Pope Francis and 40 faith leaders representing 84% of the world’s people who identify with a faith met and signed a climate appeal Oct. 4. Many of us missed this unprecedented event, just as we are missing the call to care for Our Common Home and take action to address climate change.

The appeal made at the Vatican addresses all governments participating in the 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland…The strong document calls for decisive international action by governments implores leaders to “safeguard, restore and heal our wounded humanity and the home entrusted to our stewardship.”

Signed by the religious leaders of major traditions, it implores the world to listen and act. “Future generations will never forgive us if we miss the opportunity to protect our common home. We have inherited a garden; we must not leave a desert to our children.”

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Two Local Authors to Discuss Water at Our Annual Meeting

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If you haven’t registered for New Mexico Interfaith Power & Light’s annual meeting online, now is a good time to do so.  Our meeting will feature a panel on water, featuring two local authors and prominent environmental experts.

Laura Paskus

Environmental journalist 

Author of “At the Precipice”

 

 

Sandra Postel

Director of the Global Water Policy Project

Author of “Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity”

 

Arcie Chapa

Center for Regional Studies at UNM

will moderate the panel

 

Here are descriptions of the two books

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. … Google Books
Originally published: September 15, 2020

“Nothing is more important to life than water, and no one knows water better than Sandra Postel. Replenish is a wise, sobering, but ultimately hopeful book.” —Elizabeth Kolbert “Remarkable.” —New York Times Book Review “Clear-eyed treatise…Postel makes her case eloquently.” … Google Books  

Originally published: October 10, 2017

Register for our meeting

Acting for Sister Water: A Soul Emergency

Thursday, Nov. 4, 6:30 pm

Via zoom: Send Registration request to carlos@nm-ipl.org and livestreamed on Facebook. Recording will be available after the event on IPL’s You Tube channel.