Bridge out in Albania, one of many places all over earth that were recently deluged. bne IntelliNews. you don’t hear
the word “ghastly” much anymore, but it’s how the future is described by 17 climate experts in a new report that speaks of “de- clining health & climate- disruption upheavals” producing “steady erosion of the fabric of human civilisation.” whatevs. tell me another one, chicken little . . . well, you needn’t look to the future: even now, 16k families / 81k humans evac’d: rising waters & “non-stop rain” on visayas philipines last weekend; 62k evac’d in s. thailand, same cause; 11 dead in w. java landslides record rainfall in chennai & tamil nadu, which was 42% short on rain for jan. until mon./tues. — now at + 2000%; “icy flash flood destroys vehicles in santa rosa, la pampa, argentina - watch now!”; while t’storms, hi winds, flash floods in mecca (yeah, that mecca — in the desert) seattle got 75% of avg. jan. rain in 1st 10 days; multiple landslides, 600k w/o power in oregon & wash. in wake of massive rains seems like it’s rainin' all over the world . . . madrid still in record cold; -13 f in c. spain; 7 humans dead + 4k living in shantytown w/o electricity given emerg shelter meanwhile . . . istambul on the brink of depleting its water reserves: reservoirs at 19%, rain 50% < oct-jan avg; now they’re talking cloud seeding (remember cloud seeding?); while athens bakes in hottest jan. in 160 yrs. pollution is down in w. u.s. (yay!) but wildfire smoke is up (boo), & people will die of lung cancer more slowly than they die of fire, just as “most people do not see sea-level rise. most people do not ever see hurricanes. but many, many people will see wildfire smoke from climate change,” sez the earth system scientist they say all this and say all this and repeat it and re- peat & nobody is aghast — even as we’re being a-ghosted even as we speak
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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. |