travel from europe stopped;
classes on-line; massive cities on lockdown . . . another reminder the world is run by people in the same high risk group . . . also a low-risk group for the worst of climate catastrophe -- viz., those who won’t be around for it: another re- minder of why there’s no action on the climate crisis . . . 36 coronavirus deaths is u.s. so far; 46 flooding deaths in n.w. pakistan, so far; ≥ 5 in egypt: “heaviest rains in recent memory” + 50 mph winds, “towering walls of dust” in u.s., dow ↓ 2352 points; mozambique ↓ 1.7 m acres of productive cropland; 100k in resettlement camps as of dec.; food aid to everyone else halved due to shortages — this, a year after cyclone idai . . . (make of all this what you will) est. 22 m displaced in 2019 from x-treme weather; world hunger ↑ after “decade of steady decline,” largely from x-treme weather; & the last 5 years officially the hottest on record -- sure, but what about the last five days?? that’s what we really care about . . . “i’m very struck,” sez another x-treme weather watcher, “by how slow the climate- related news has been these past few days. i am wondering if news agencies are so busy reporting on the coronavirus that extreme weather events are going unreported.” but british dude -- don’t be insensitive -- you don’t get it -- the ncaa tournament is cancelled — cancelled! and they’re not waiting til “the end of the century” for that . . .
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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. |