po’in’ down rain --
reminds me of winter in n. calif.: nonstop torrents: but this is n.e. ks.; & this is how it rains here now, & the back- yard always turns into a lake; more rain tonite, maybe a tornado or 2; while in s.w. ks., extreme fire warnings blare over the radio -- dry + windy = danger- ous for spring burning! but here it is 62 f, set to go to 77 today; then 29 tonite then 39 for hi tomorrow -- it’s damn near like the stock market . . . (“normals”? ha! — but, ok: statistically, 58/33) f.b. post: “now that nature has got our attention, what are we going to do?” it turns out that if you cut down a forest, the bats that lived there disperse, go looking for food, shit in the wild animal food market, trans- mit their diseases to the wild animals & folks who eat them transmit it to those who don’t . . . but “people only have the mental bandwidth for one life-threatening, world- altering crisis at a time” sez grist mag; & these ones show us how little numbers matter a lot: the difference, between 0.1% and 1.0% = 34k & 2.2m dead (at worst); 1.5˚ c vs. 2 c? worldwide? 13% ↑ people in heatwaves; 61% ↑ in severe drought; (& there are already a lot there already); & o yeah, no more coral; etc. is anybody reporting climate news right now? well, it’s still happening; 1st the good news: no rain of blood hail of fire 3-day darkness; but passover’s coming up & as for the other plagues. . . well, ~ a gazillion locusts in ethiopia, somalia, kenya, “an unprecedented threat to food security and livelihoods at the beginning of the upcoming cropping season” (this thanks to unnaturally heavy rains in mideast & e. africa this winter); only the seedcorn left in ‘stralia — farm country hit by drought + wildfire (+ panic buying); $63m & 20 lives lost last wk in egypt from “dragon front” (5x normal rainfall); 1st ever wind warning in seoul (21 m / sec.); record rainfall in hawai’i (+ tornado warnings — !!); warmest-ever winter in spain; sooooooo . . . what are we going to do? if u hunker down, down, down (how lo can u go?) — if we stop doing what we’ve been doing, we cld have net emissions of zero point zero zero . . . until things go back to normal again
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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. |