Author Archives | Ed Merta
Ed Merta is a third year law student at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, specializing in climate change and renewable energy law. This summer he worked on climate and energy issues for Western Resource Advocates, a nonprofit promoting sustainable energy, land, and water policy and law in the interior West. He has a masters degree in U.S. history (and "ABD") from Harvard University, where he specialized in recent U.S. politics and foreign relations. Ed also worked for two years as a graduate student national security policy analyst at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
A Hope in That Which is Not Seen
Reflections on the People’s Climate March in New Mexico this weekend.
Continue reading...Why New Mexico’s Climate Future Has Already Been Decided – and What Can Be Done
20. May 2014
No, the New Mexico official told me, you’re getting too far ahead of the science. Your certainty about the consequences of climate change, he cautioned me, isn’t warranted. You’ll hurt your credibility.
This official deals with water issues for our state. He was gracious enough to provide feedback on a paper I’d written in my capacity as a law student at the University of New Mexico. The paper dealt with how the state’s prior appropriation system of water law manages water shortages during drought. In writing about that subject, I had emphasized that the state faced a future of, in essence, permanent drought, and had best prepare accordingly...
Continue reading...Distant Early Warning
12. March 2014
Fracking wars, regional chaos and ecological fallout all around the corner in this short fiction from Ed Merta.
Continue reading...The Game Changer
28. November 2013
A short story by Ed Merta that dreams of a climate policy breakthrough in New Mexico.
Continue reading...The Event: Preparing for the end game on climate change
23. September 2013
The case for merging disaster preparation with climate policy in the countdown to an ecological 'crescendo.'
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19. September 2014
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