Saturday, in Marabella, Málaga, far south of Spain: ‘stralia:
“everything just shriveled w/the heat” “the suggestion that there’s any one emissions reduction policy or climate policy that has contributed directly to any of these fire events is just ridiculous” “to be a rebel, all we ask is for your email and to come to one talk,” “people have had a gutful” “out of despair and fatigue, i got involved” “that figure is 5x higher than past studies had predicted for the year. climate is racing far ahead of the models we have been using until now” “let me tell you, it’s been hard to make a catchy phrase out of ‘you are all going to die’”; black ash not black sand on the beaches meanwhile, zimbabwe: “we have no option. this water is dangerous as you can see,” sez the citizen, pointing to a pile of human waste nearby; n. madagascar: 16k dis- placed, 31 dead this wk after tropical storm; inundations leave 53 dead in s.e. brazil (6.7” rain in 24 hrs in belo horizonte, 110 yr record; landslides kill ≥ 30; & e. argentina feels another 100+˚f day; 2 wks of rising waters leave 80% of s.e. iran’s people w/o potable water, only the brown sludgy kind; (“when you think of those ahead of you, think also of those behind,” says the philosopher-king; “don’t look back they might be gaining,” sez the wiser ball player) cars tossed onto one another & through shop windows in malaga + several feet of hail; mildest winter ever in sweden; birds fly in the wrong direction in kent — & butterflies! in january — people feeding hedgehogs to keep them alive; “you don’t want hibernating animals charging around thinking it is spring,” or crops coaxed up to be froze down like in u.s.america: “spring-like warmth across much of the s., e.; fewer frosts have allowed plants to think it's safe to emerge” “houston, atlanta, chicago, boston all running 5-10 degrees f > normal: more like normal temps for march or april” sez the meteorologist here, we’re enjoying the “warm” weather (i.e., normal temps); here, we don’t go in for doomsayers, we stay optimistic, we don’t allow the plants to think at all
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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. |