(photo Bloomberg via Salaam Gateway) here in lawrence f. kansas, usa,
temps this weekend ran 14 degrees > that nostalgic “normal,” w/punishing winds: red-flag warning, 20 mph w/30 mph gusts . . . it’s a windy state, but seems to me like hi winds are coming oftener but remember how siberia was melting under record hi’s last summer? well, now the frozen north is frozen over again — so much so reindeer can’t nuzzle through the ice to eat the lichen: local herders reckon 60k+ have died soybean futures ↑ 55% over last yr: drought in argentina downpours in brazil — rotting or burning beans (watch out, meateaters, yr food bill’s gonna go up) the words for the week are heat & drought: record march hi for u.a.e. (106 f); new mexico’s worst drought on record: hi winds' sublimating snowpack = less rio grande downstream; “i feel guilty for encouraging my son to be a farmer” sez glen duggins while in c. & n. taiwan, 1.34m households’ water pressure deliberately lowered: not a shortage of power but a shortage of water & in n. africa, another drought (tunisian crop yields ↓35% last year) -- tunisian govt. asks citizens to make “recourse to god almighty with supplication” -- a climate adaptation policy at least as good as ours “i just read the future,” sez kassandra, “you decide what to do with it.” me, i stick to the present, to what is really happening now maybe someone will connect the two. inshallah.
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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. |