happy spring!
and happy world water day! here in the missouri river basin, we had three straight yrs. of flood; now, finally . . . we’re in a drought. but then, so is half the u.s. “deluge-and-drought”; repeat. unicef sez 20 yrs from now, 1 in 4 kids will live in places w/ “extreme water stress” (that’ll be 600 m kids, by then); & m.i.t. scientists predict 52% of humans will live in “water-stressed regions” by 2050 (will that be within your lifetime, reader?), meaning over 5 b persons, by then. but then 2 billion don’t have clean water today (incl. 2 m in the u.s. of a.). & we have — what? -- like 8 years and 9 months to save the earth, at this point? (i can’t recall when it was we still had 10) there’s a plan in california (there’s always a plan in calif.) for the state to buy up seaside property, then rent it back to owners until it becomes uninhabitable due to sea-level rise not a bad idea; but they won't do it; people want to believe what they want to believe, want to believe we’ll fix it all, so we don’t have to worry about what happens if we don’t. my clear filtered water in my clear clean glass
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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. |