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Articles by Nathaniel Matthews-trigg
Less work, more play: A policy for N.M.'s future?
Artificial intelligence is coming for our jobs. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has predicted AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar positions. OpenAI’s Sam Altman says he can imagine AI handling 40% of the work done in today’s economy. Already, tens of thousands of layoffs have been attributed directly to AI and automation. New Mexico cannot afford to wait for the coming tsunami of layoffs to hit and then scramble to respond.
It's getting hotter: Here's what we must do
It's official — according to researchers at University of New Mexico, this winter was the warmest November-to-January period in at least 131 years. Last month felt like late spring — in February — reaching record highs of 80 degrees in Albuquerque and 106 in Texas. Parts of our state hit temperatures 15 to 25 degrees above normal earlier this month. If this doesn't scare you, imagine what this summer will feel like and how many people will needlessly suffer. This isn't a pleasant anomaly.
Make 2026 count for the climate
Don’t let the unseasonable warm winter weather fool you — something is deeply wrong. This month, temperatures across New Mexico have been nearly 20 degrees above normal, breaking records across the state. Santa Fe reached 61 degrees on Dec. 22, Carlsbad reached 81 degrees on Christmas, and the daily low for Albuquerque on Dec. 26 was a whopping 47 degrees. These temperature anomalies are not unique to New Mexico.
OPINION: Albuquerque's cooling ordinance: A good start that needs strengthening
On Aug. 1, Mayor Tim Keller will participate in “Hotter Days, Smarter Ways: Innovative Strategies for Heat Resilience” at the Mayors’ Innovation Project 2025 conference. As mayors from across the country gather to discuss critical issues like heat and homelessness, I hope our mayor will share both Albuquerque’s successes — tree planting initiatives and new shade structures — and our ongoing challenges with implementing meaningful renter protections.
One Very Concrete Thing Schools Could Do to Help Teenagers Facing Disasters Original
School Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The ongoing Los Angeles wildfires reveal a pattern that I’ve seen as a disaster technical expert too many times before: Community members, driven by a sense of urgency and compassion, become unprepared first responders.
Wildfire smoke is growing health problem
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Extreme heat is a public health crisis
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Climate change is pushing health care systems to their limits
Back-to-back days of debilitating heat. We all feel it. Even worse, this current record-breaking stretch of dangerous heat is just another sign that our way of life, and the health of all New Mexicans, is under threat. Extreme heat contributes to numerous life-threatening health problems, including heatstroke, dehydration, increased risk of heart attacks, respiratory difficulties, and more.
New Mexico health professionals are organizing against climate change Original
Paul Charlton, MD, Nathaniel Matthews-Trigg, MPH, CEM, and Shelley Mann-Lev, MPH New Mexico Health Professionals for Climate Action Back-to-back days of debilitating heat. We all feel it. Even worse, this current record-breaking stretch of dangerous heat is just another sign that our way of life, and the health of all New Mexicans, is under threat.
Health professionals organize for climate solutions
Back-to-back days of debilitating heat. We all feel it. Even worse, this record-breaking stretch of dangerous heat is just another sign that our way of life, and the health of all New Mexicans, is under threat. Extreme heat contributes to numerous life-threatening health problems, including heatstroke, dehydration, increased risk of heart attacks, respiratory difficulties and more.
New Mexico needs climate resiliency resources
The Pacific Northwest endured a grueling summer 2021 heat wave that killed more than 1,000 people in a handful of days and impacted millions more. At the time, I was working with the regional health care coalition in Seattle. Our role was supporting the emergency response coordination between public health, health care, and emergency managers throughout western Washington.
To Prevent Climate Catastrophe We Must Learn Cooperation and Solidarity
In the unusually hot summer of 1954, social psychologists Muzafer Sherif, Carolyn Wood Sherif, and a group of research assistants conducted a social experiment at Robbers Cave State Park in Oklahoma. Recruiting 22 boys—all 12 years old, white, Protestant, and middle-class—the Sherifs and their colleagues divided these subjects into two groups.
Climate Change Is the Inevitable Consequence of Capitalist Privatization
The notion of the commons refers to shared land, publicly available for all people to access for leisure and when times get tough, for survival. Publicly shared lands have existed since humans first walked the earth but have progressively been enclosed for individual sustenance or for profit. The most profound period of enclosures came with the introduction of European capitalism, and mass displacement of agricultural people to toil in industrial factories.
Deadly heat
Long ago humans first recognized the dangers of heat waves, and effective adaptations have been around since humans first inhabited the deserts and tropical regions of the world. What continues to endanger millions of people from extreme heat is not a lack of awareness or solutions, but a lack of leadership willing to address the root causes of why so many people don’t have the means to adapt. Equitable public adaptations are the only way to survive a warming planet with our humanity left intact.
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