glamour magazine (u.k.) sez
u can cure climate anxiety by mindfulness: “begin with an attitude of acceptance & welcoming” — and y not? since it's happening w/ or w/o you: cyclone idai still immiserates zimbabwe, one year on: 8 m people facing starvation, many families still unhoused, $1 b needed to recover (fat chance . . .); it’s still raining in s.e. tanzania (21 k people displaced) & in congo (200 k affected); w. java “on brink of crop failure” from pouring-down rain (“agricultural experts have warned that climate change has begun to affect food production in parts of country (hmm . . . you think?) warmest-ever winter in belarus, warmest-ever winter in hong kong, warmest-ever in moscow, warmest-ever in switzerland dryest-ever feb. in no. calif. (wildfire season already there); record heat in feb. in so.cal., wettest ever feb. in nederland; dryest ever feb. in malta; record rainfall in tehran, & u.s. great lakes “have gone from record low to record high in record time” 3 tornadoes in middle tenn., 22 people dead (part of increased # of tornadoes in s.e.) & my cousin’s office roof gone in the yorkshire town of snaith (yes, that’s its real name), rising waters forced evacuations 46 mi. to hull (“i wanted to go in & get the children’s toys, but my wife told me if i went back in i would be killed.”) — 82 flood warnings still in effect (u.k.) and then this: no ice wine from germany this year! -- harvests failed for first time b/c . . . well, they didn’t freeze . . . so, ground yourself; adopt a positive orientation; “find harmonic solutions”; and just breathe just breathe just breathe just breathe
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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. |