another earth day,
another earth dollar another rollback of enviro regs & no way will we get out of this economic hole unless carbon corpos are disgorged of profits, & the six rich people who own half the world face another revolution not to mention preparing for further effects of global heating which will cost some money, too maybe the women will march like they did in france in 1789 only this time at the corpo hqs. of amazon, koch industries, saudi aramco, halliburton, exxonmobil instead of versailles — & keep em shut or make em pay up meanwhile emissions go down, but the climate still goes wonky — mother nature is not giving us the immediate re- inforcement we need . . . bad mother nature bad! but 2019 was hottest ever year in europe (it’s official); scotland temps = 10˚ c > avg + wildfire near glasgow; “britain on course for hottest april in 361 years”; forest fires in nature reserves in nederland; & get this: cesium-137 in norway from forest fires near chernobyl; italy’s warmest season since 1800: rain ↓ 61% since feb; can’t mother earth see we’re busy?? like, we have more pressing matters to -- as 56 die in d.r.c.: lake tanganykia won’t hold all the water coming down; in kenya 12 drowned or crushed & 400 families dis- placed (& more rain coming): “people living in landslide- prone areas should be vigilant” . . . yeah. no shit . . . 6 dead in landslide in rwanda & mother nature is not letting up on yemen: cholera, covid, civil war, & now much of country awash; 10 flood deaths; afghanistan floods killed 56 in last month & threaten millions & n.s.w., despite all the down- pours still suffers x-treme drought: "it's extremely worrying, bordering on despair,” the agronomist sez (& now the locust plague is starting there, too) mother earth: send reinforcements! please! s.e. u.s. faces wave after wave of killer tornado swarms; while emerg planners too preoccupied by viruses to think about coming hurricanes; hotter than ever in april in miami; drier than ever start to april in seattle; so let’s celebrate virtual earth day — here’s to our virtual earth!
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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. |