What do you do when it's too hot to live where you are? You go north. (via Mexico News Daily) spinning straw into gold?
or treading water? who knows why i write down all these things, other than i fell like somebody has to (make that “feel” like — typo, sorry) like the findings published in nature communications this week: “we find that the average person of color lives in a census tract w/ higher surface urban heat island intensity than non-hispanic whites in all but 6 of the 175 largest ur- banized areas in the continental u.s.; a similar pattern emerges for people living in households below the poverty line relative to those at more than 2x the poverty line.” meaning: if you’re black, brown, or poor, global heating boils you alive -- true worldwide, not just here . . . for people in chihuahua state, mx, that means higher food costs: 90% crop loss — no water for irrigation; 25 of 31 states in drought; 16 of them w/drought “in all municipalities”; all reservoirs < 50%, some < 20 “many people come here, from guerrero, oaxaca and michoacán to work in the fields. now there are no jobs,” sez the lawmaker; meanwhile, our v. pres. visits central america, trying to persuade people to stay put to face the gangs and the drought (but don’t come up here!); mean- while, 1500 guatemalans evac’d from e. coast (floods) — this as they still recover from double hurricanes meanwhile, chevron, exxon busted by share- holders; shell, by dutch courts; maybe maybe maybe . . . still, people in interior odisha hunker down under 15” of rain from cyclone yaas; in w. bengal, 50k humans w/o housing; 1100 villages inundated; “roads turned into rivers, cars toppled & half-submerged, people wade through knee-high water, huts and small houses lie crumpled in piles of debris,” & who doesn’t know the rest . . . ? meanwhile, yaas sucked moisture out of the s.e. coast of india, where temps now push 108 (f) california wildfires already burned 5x more land than late last may; siberian wildfire season up & running (“siberian wildfire season”?!) & americans seek treatment for eco- anxiety & climate depression (we always seek relief from & for our indivdual problems); indians seek treatment for covid (some in hurricane shelters) action the best medicine: vote yr proxy; badger yr city council; prep w/neighbors; get naked & glue yrself to hedge fund hq.’s; or just write a fucking email to the white house: whatever it is, i guarantee you’ll feel better; but whatever you do, you must be aware of what is
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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. |