the human cerebral cortex a-
mazes. soon it will have gotten its owners to a place where it can return to its original function: allowing them merely to survive. which many already merely do. look: here’s a kind of “yr-in-review” article re: 2020 asian floods: china: 2,700,000 humans evac’d nepal: 4,500 landslides bangladesh: ⅓ underwater total: 70m people “affected” (whatever that means) & “75% of india’s districts are hot spots of x-treme climate events” withal. “today, climate and weather- related events account for nearly 9 out of every 10 disasters,” sez the red cross man, & he wd know better than i “humanity is shooting itself in the foot,” the atmospheric scientist sez. it’s that reptile brain that just has 2 settings: freeze and bite! -- only in our case, it has a terrific problem- solving apparatus attached, that allows the alpha humans to take a bite outa the globe (spaykin’ o’ crocs: australia’s spring 2020 hottest on record; no more domestic rice down under, looks like) an’ we’re all heading toward it: ↑3˚ c (37.4 f) by 2100 c.e., sez the u.n., wch makes u feel for those poor 22nd c. folks & not only is homo sapiens the most numerous mammal species; now, biomass weighs in less than human-mass (~1.1 terratonnes), meaning we & our stuff outweigh all the plants and animals on earth (& that doesn’t even include our waste!). some wise men once said “we want our tails back!” that and a collective lobotomy might do the trick
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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. |