happy almost autumn!
(if such still exists) our hi yesterday: 95 f norm: 80 our lo yesterday: 65 norm: 53 it’s not the heat, it’s . . . precip, mo. to date: 0.47 norm, mo. to date: 2.74 well, none of this means anything, really: a blip, not a trend. for that, look at the “climate stripes”: graphic rep of avg temps 1850-present – it’s become a thing – like the earth’s climate bar code, now seen on everything from stage backdrops to fashionable neckwear – in the upper left corner we could put a canton with fifty stars (the fact i thought of that means somebody has done it already) – wish i had one for the cli-stri picket line o well students in houston have an added incentive to walk out today: tropical storm imelda 2nd 1000-yr flood in 2 yrs – classroom roofs leaking, school parking lots like lakes or raging rapids, students still ptsd’d from harvey stuck at school – "i have my little ones distracted with coloring & arthur on screen. learning is NOT feasible now. acting as a mother to calm the worries of 20 children. they are very upset." schools in session while the mayor sez "wherever you are, stay where you are" (also best advice ever for nailing yr carbon footprint); as 100s are waiting for rescue, rescuers wade through water up to stinky armpits; 3 ½ ft of rain as of noon yesterday & still raining; & students are out in s. laos, too, b/c of flooding: “it’s all gone. teaching materials, the text books and even black boards, all damaged.” not to mention rice crop; + 28 dead, 500k homeless, $50m damage; while indonesian fires continue spreading smoke next door. “c” is for “climate stripes,” “d,” for “day zero”: term for when you run out of h2o, as 15 australian municipalities are about to do (incl. sydney); & after wettest year ever, washington state now faces drought . . . meanwhile trendy retailers give workers a day off to blow off cli-steam; but in bow, n.h., they’re taking aim at a coal-fired power plant, trying to shut it down & prepping to get arrested in the process; & all over the world others know they will be fired, expelled, jailed, or worse if they take part. “what am i risking? am willing to risk?” show yr stripes, yr sunrise logo, yr xr hourglass, yr black bandana, or whatever, if you can however you can cause we're in the red
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Kristin Prevallet Author/Editor
I'm a writer & teacher in Lawrence, Kansas who actually believes the scientists. I wrote a book of poems called Of Some Sky that seems to have something to do with all this. |