satellite image of smoke from forest fires (lower right) 30 mi. from Arctic Ocean (white stuff at top) here’s another reason to care
about climate change even if you don’t care about climate change: your mortgage: i see in the news where this nonprofit sez the govt. underestimates by 70% # of properties in u.s. at “substantial risk of flooding” due to climate chaos (check to see abt yours) plus which: billions $$ in property value lost along coasts already (sea level rise duh) -- plus which: try getting a mortgage at all, along coasts (harder than it used to be) you may not believe it, but the bean counters do; insurance companies do. speaking of flooding . . . 1 million people homeless in assam: state govt. sez “situation remains extremely grave w/ several embankments breached” & they say “turning critical by the hour” & all that rainwater flows downhill & downstream to bangladesh (they warned us abt what wld happen to bangladesh): 100,000s of humans w/o drinking water w. ukraine lacks drinking water, too, due to flood water (well, you can drink it if you want to but you can also get water- borne diseases) & “abidjan’s weak drainage system was quickly overwhelmed. major thoroughfares flooded & cars and debris swept away, & residents in low-lying homes forced to seek safety.” & 1k water rescues in hubei; & roads washed out in thailand; schools & homes inundated in sarawak; landslide in n. sikkim; torrential rain in s. japan; & c. meanwhile siberia burns: 5x as many wildfires as last week -- 2.85 m acres as of sat. -- 30 mi south of arctic circle, in the “coldest permanently inhabited region on the planet” -- where they had 100 f last week, a once- in-100,000-years event (& we were lucky enough to be alive for it!) we won’t talk about how much co2 & methane thawing permafrost will set free, or what that will do to those of us farther south . . . b/c we don’t know for sure it will happen, right? so go ahead, live yr life, get married, have kids, try to get a mortgage, rip off that mask: you can’t live yr life in fear, right? right?
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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. |