Have you ever been in the American Southwest?

Among the desolate beauty, around the flying plastic bags, over the minerals, and resting upon the beer cans is a lot of sunshine. That seems pretty obvious, doesn’t it? After a summer of wandering about the desert feeling like a nomadic mop, I found myself questioning the logic of funding shale, building pipelines, and drilling into the Arctic–all to pump a few more gigatonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere.