Houston-based Tecton Energy plans to conduct oil and gas drilling on 65,000 acres in the Galisteo Basin and 50,000 acres on Albuquerque's West Mesa. Youth
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I am a seventh-grader at Albuquerque Public Schools' Family School who is interested in global warming. I feel that this is an exceedingly important issue for the public to focus on: It is inescapably clear that unless today's lifestyle in 
America is changed, children across the world will face a multitude of major dilemmas caused by drastic climate change—probably within my lifetime.
The United States is certainly not a leading example of environmental sustainability, and New Mexico is far above the national average in per-capita greenhouse gas emissions. This knowledge that my country, my state, my city and my very home are contributing damage to our shared world leads me to commit myself to working against this social and ecological injustice.
We, as a state, have the potential to help lead the quest for successful solutions to climate change, and I feel strongly that we must pursue it devoutly.
– Ella D. Wood, Albuquerque
In January 2008, the New Mexico chapter of the League of Young Voters became New Mexico Youth Organized. Over the past four years, through the generous support and amazing opportunity provided by the national League of Young Voters, we've blossomed into a local movement for young people yearning for more than some typical, status-quo brand of politics. One of the
main areas of interest is in seeking solutions to global warming.
Outside of New Mexico, in July 2006 the International Youth Coalition, representing youth from 21 countries in six continents, issued a statement urging G8 to Address Global Warming. SustainUS, the U.S. Youth Network for Sustainable Development, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of young people advancing sustainable development and youth empowerment in the United States. In December 2005, U.S. youth representing SustainUS travelled to Montreal to demand U.S. action on global warming at the United Nations conference on global warming.
Other youth organizations dedicating time to global warming include a Christian Science youth group, TMC Youth which has a forum on getting together to talk and pray about global warming. British teens sound off on global warming via an online blog through the BBC and Teen Ink, a national teen magazine, book series, and website devoted entirely to teenage writing and art has dedicated a section to global warming and the environment.
