William deBuys is the author of seven books, including River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction in 1991; Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range; The Walk (an excerpt of which won a Pushcart Prize in 2008), and Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California. An active conservationist, deBuys has helped protect more than 150,000 acres in New Mexico, Arizona, and North Carolina. He lives and writes on a small farm in northern New Mexico.
"DeBuys delivers thoughtful portraits of efforts to ameliorate
conditions . . . readers will appreciate this intelligent account
of water politics, forest ecology and urban planning in a region
seriously stressed even before global warming arrived to make
matters worse."
--Kirkus Reviews"With wide-eyed wonder and the clearest of prose,
deBuys explains why we should care about these places, the people
he portrays, and the conundrums over land and water he illuminates.
No longer are aridity and climate change in the Southwest only of
regional interest; deBuys is writing for America and we should all
listen to what he has to say." --Booklist (starred review)
"Drawing on the work of climatologists and other scientists,
deBuys's analysis of the eco-crisis - rising temperatures,
wildfires, water shortages, disappearing wildlife - is a reasoned
warning to heavily populated arid regions round the world." -
Nature"A Great Aridness is his most disturbing book, a jeremiad
that ought to be required reading for politicians, economists,
real-estate developers and anyone thinking about migrating to the
Sunbelt." --American Scientist
"Non-experts who want a concrete sense of climate change's impact -
and a lyrical reading experience - should turn to A Great
Aridness." - Washington Post"Across the board global warming in the
Southwest will challenge us morally, artistically, economically,
politically, and socially. DeBuy's triumpth is to summarize, in
clear and elegant prose, those challenges as they appear today."
--Western American Literature 49:3"William deBuys, one of our
finest environmental historians, offers a narrative that follows
the trajectory of Keeling's awesome arc. ... The story deBuys tells
is informative, thought provoking, and elegantly written."
--Western Historical QUarterly
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