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Cliff / Gila Farm Bureau Candidate Forum To view in Real Player (broadband) Click here To listen in Real Player (dialup) Click here Now Playing on CATS & NMCCAT affiliated stations WNMU Update On 15 May 2008 The WNMU Board of Regents met and in an unfortunate but unsurprising fit of pique & con- firmation of their inability to respond to citizens, staff or faculty, lashed out at Faculty Senate President Tom Gruska and other faculty members and members of the public. More soon come! Click here to download Real Player (it's free) station schedules... Please Note - Santa Fe does not have an online schedule presently but RFS! often plays Fridays @ 9pm. Call / email for other times. |
Award winning author, professor, conservationist, but perhaps most of all lover of wild creatures and places, William DeBuys visited Silver City on Earth Day, 18 April 2008, to speak on the role of water and energy in the development of the west, the present threat of human induced climate change, and the state of our rivers - and particularly the Gila River.
With the release of the Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, there can no longer be any legitimate argument that climate change is not a fact. The overwhelming consensus of scientifically substantiated and peer reviewed studies confirm the reality and character of climate change. Only the corporate "Greenwashing" campaigns - the most egeregious example being Exxon/Mobil - backed by their corrupt poitical allies make any pretense to deny this.
The solutions to these challenges are not apparent and indeed given the scale of climate change, there may be no solutions which permit us to continue to think and behave as we have. Ultimately, our collective wisdom will form the range of options we will try but DeBuys suggests beginning these 4 points as the start of an Arid Lands Credo -
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Click here for Gila Conservation Coalition Click here for Bill DeBuys interview in Exacting Editor Click here for Inter- governmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Rpt Click here for Richard Seager at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia U Click here for Tim Barnett at Scripps Institute of Oceanography at UCSD Click here for 2006 interview w/ Samuel P Hays author of Conservation & the Gospel of Efficiency & here for 1975 Truman Library oral history Click here for Profile of natural resource law expert Charles Wilkinson at UC / Boulder and here for CO public radio interview Click here for High Country News article on catastrophic 2000 Los Alamos fire Click here for Google Video of Richard Seager & prominent enviro scientists on Rapid Environmental Change |
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The literally graphic evidence of climate change, reduced
rain- fall in
the Southwest, population growth and increasing demand for water and
energy resources presents a stark picture of the future and clearly
articulates the need to redouble efforts to protect our continually
degraded natural resources - including such treasures as the Gila River. 
DeBuys lives in Santa Fe, NM
where he is a professor at College of Santa Fe. He is author of six
books and is active in the struggle to preserve the environment in New
Mexico and the Southwest. He held position in the Valle Grande Grass Bank
in San Miguel County, NM and served as chairman of Valles Caldera Trust,
an 89,000-acre National Preserve northeast of Santa Fe.