Egyptian comedy troupe milks climate catastrophe for laugh lines: it’s the little things:
like, i can’t help but notice: no- body is mowing. flash flood warnings a couple of days, then heat advisories (or warnings) for 3, then more downpour: rain feeds the grass, heat makes mowing quasi-hazardous, so the grass grows long. this is the new normal for the week of aug 18, 2019. check back in a yr. enough of 1st world problems . . . meanwhile, here’s the news, hopefully fake, probably not: brazil incinerates previous high number of trees burning: 72,843 fires in the amazon – 83% ↑ from last yr: bolsonaro sez it’s just farmers clearing their land like every yr (& 28k acres in turkey, 3.3 in iran); & btw, if yr insurance drops you b/c the odds are good a forest fire will burn yr house, is that a 1st-world prob? or the 1.3 m acres out of production in ark. alone, b/c of flooded farms? meanwhile, record drought in sing- apoor, ditto malaysia; crops in s. australia “on the brink of ruin”; “it’s heartbreaking to see cows & sheep standing on hard dirt instead of soft grass . . . there’s no more grazing all day like nature intended for them.” while the siberian bears can’t find salmon so instead eat human garbage and humans, too. & they’re having funerals for glaciers now; & for 1st time, the u.s. cuts amt. of colorado r. water az. & nv. can take out; i’m like everyone: crawl into my little life & don’t come out until the “all clear” – keep calm, carry on w/my exposed existence while i can. good news does exist: egyptian comedy troupe “encourages villagers to cooperate by combining small- holdings to maximize output and use irrigation & farming techniques to cope with c.c.” (al-taghayorat al-monakhiya, in arabic – there’s a funny pun on the word for a traditional stew. but i guess you had to be there.) wheat output, water savings increased dramatically, they claim. still, one old dude asks, rhetorically, contemptuously, “how are we going to change god’s weather?”
0 Comments
Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
June 2021
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. |