Telluride environment: forest health
[click "Play" to hear Clint's interview with Kevin Gurney]Telluride's The New Community Coalition, The Telluride Institute and the Wilkinson Public Library joined forces to present a workshop, keynoted by Dr. Kevin Gurney. The subject: "Forest Health and the Community Carbon Connection." The event takes place Wednesday, September 30, 6 p.m., at the Library.
The context in digestible sound bytes: Marcel Theroux's new book "Hot Ice," is a novel about what happens to the world post collapse. (Hint: Civilization is largely reduced to preindustrial levels and cities have gone the way of "The Road.") If the Arctic is the proverbial canary in the coal mine in terms of global warming, many scientists agree the bird has already chirped its last. Ever since Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared The Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, climate change and the constellation of horrors surrounding the real possibility – inevitability? – of a total meltdown is the new normal, and carbon dioxide emissions, the new Darth Vader. It will take lots more than good will, driving a Prius, riding a bike, turning down thermostats, replacing light bulbs, and solar panels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It will take a village, and then some.