climate chaos:
harrison ford came out against it; bill & melinda gates are agin it; laura dern’s agin it -- joaquin phoenix’s against all bad things in the world -- it’s ten feb 2020 & 65 f in antarctica, which sounds pretty good to this versifier, living as he does where it’s 25 right now but it’s not pretty good: “watch as tower-sized block of ice smashes into sea!” -- preceded by commercial that wants me to fly a jet plane all the way to thailand (wch now has drought-induced states of emergency in 116 districts); them big-ass glaciers melt faster than we thot & in 30 yrs, 300 m people “will fall below the elevation of average annual flood,” sez climate central (26 m around shanghai alone); translation: son chingados. no make that “somos.” well, other countries prepare & prevent, but us? here we just wait for something bad to happen, then rescue & rebuild; sure, it’s more ex- pensive, but why fix it if it ain’t broke? that’s just good ol’ american common sense & yeah the british humble- bees r dying off; but dig this: it seems a hedge fund presses our local utility to move to renewables sooner than they’d like — go hedge fund! & e. australia’s got rain -- like, massive amounts -- like, too much maybe: quells wildfires, but causes floods -- can’t they make up their minds?? floods in n.z., too (s. island): joe biden’s not the only one hurting: “a bit of a kick in the gut really,” the dairyman sez (referring to his now-sub- aqueous farm); drought caused crop failures & 24% ↑ in childhood hunger in guatemala (“why do they keep coming? why don’t they get in line?”) -- but we’re all supposed to get & stay in line: it’s monday: so do damn your job: keep yr head down, don’t disrupt, be- have; if you’re agin climate chaos, put it on facebook somewheres — start a meme don't start a revolution
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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. |