another editorial:
“we need to support disaster survivors, overwhelmingly in rural areas, as they develop their own ways of adapting to the climate crisis. . . . unless we support the survivors in their communities, they will inevitably seek refuge in those giant conurbations, with their ‘safe’ infrastructures & technologies, sending the cost of those adaptations soaring yet higher.” tiene razón. pero there ain’t a whole lot of razón apparent these days. but there is a whole lot of chaleur: like paris’ hitting all-time record hi temp: 42.6 c / 108.7 f en warmte: nederland notches all-time hottie at 41.7 / 107.1 en belgium: 40.7 / 105.3 (& some london tube stations lose a/c) und hitze: 42.6 / 108.7 broke the record in germany you may have even heard this on the news . . . but when did i think i’d say “thank god i’m not in europe”? temps étrange, non? – in more ways than 1 le jet stream, gone all wonky (but: the hottest ever day in topeka ks was july 24, 1936, when the temp hit 114 f. we must remember: everything is relative.) so, 113k acres incinerated in two days at the idaho natl. laboratory, w/its nuke reactors & all, but more importantly: “this is how a heat wave in california is affecting your guacamole . . .” meanwhile: “two years ago it seemed rain would never return to cape town. now it doesn’t seem like it will stop.” in quandu quandu water rises in sheet metal shacks: “it is risky because the stove could fall into the water, but it is cold and my two-year-old needs to keep warm.” (that everything is relative) rising water deaths, evac’s, mass disruption all over: recife, brazil, n.w. turkey, e. india even as mekong delta lowest level in 100 yrs & drought threatens indonesia’s rice: govt. “conisders artificial rain” & harare, where half the people have no water, the drought has whacked production of hydopower, so “we have to do our work during the middle of the night, because that is the only time we are guaranteed electricity” (i jump from place to place, b/c, as its un- acknowledged legislator, i am trying to represent the world. to itself. can you see it now, where you are?)
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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. |