Future changes to our climate, from an increasingly variable water cycle to extreme weather events, and how they affect us depend on the choices we make today. My wife and I, and our three children moved into Draper in 2015, looking for a home above the valley’s smog inversion…

February 28, 2020 To: Frank Pallone, Jr., NJ; Committee on Energy and Commerce, Chair Bobby L. Rush, IL; Energy subcommittee, Chair Kathy Castor, FL; Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, Chair Paul Tonko, NY; Environment and Climate Change subcommittee, Chair and Debra A. …

The discursive construction of race is a tool of rationalizing and excusing dehumanization. Use of this tool is as much about the hegemony’s rhetorical construction of their own racial identity as it is about assigning a racial taxonomy on others. White supremacy, antisemitism, and manifest destiny, for example, are all…

My life is fueled by the cheap energy supplied by burning fossils as fuel. I bet yours is to, and that’s The Problem. Unless you’ve won the lottery and can a build fortress of sustainable solitude, it’s impossible to escape this carbon footprint without turning to homelessness. …

My speech from the September 20th Climate Strike in Salt Lake City. Listen to this speech on SoundCloud I don’t need to tell you why we’re here, you showed up. I don’t need to tell you that the 1 degree warmer world we live in today is already killing thousands…

There are over 520 billion barrels of oil in the probable reserves of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates alone (source) — enough to cover the Great Lakes in over six feet of crude oil sludge. Most of this oil can hit the market at all-in-costs…

Let’s be honest. I own a WWII-era bolt action rifle which I bought years ago. It’s stored in the house about a hundred feet and a flight of stairs away from the ammo. …

It is unparliamentarian to refer to the President’s tweets as racist. “Freedom of speech is a pillar of our democracy,” said Utah Reps. Rob Bishop, John Curtis and Chris Stewart in a joint statement issued after voting against House Resolution 489 Condemning President Trump’s racist comments directed at Members of…

first published in The Canticle (University of Utah, 2019) Aeneas, grasping his shield and long spear … I am listening to the Iliad, looking straight ahead, because ever since I became a writer I’ve been trying to become well-read. But reading has never been an easy pastime for me. Highway…