“the cure is worse
than the disease” “the cure is worse than the disease” “the cure is worse than the disease” – meaning: money is more important than human life -- where have we heard this before, & in what other contexts? meaning: if you like the way katrina was handled, you’re gonna love this -- meaning: this is the way they’ll handle the next katrina-corona, & the next & the next . . . (& the folks in africa think “yeah? . . . so? . . . welcome to history”) but “comparing coronavirus to climate change is like comparing apples to the whole idea of fruit” * (to the extent that we still have fruit, that is) emissions drop (nobody drives); but so do oil prices meanwhile downpours & wadiwashers inundate towns from iran to murcia to morocco; 700 displaced in e. papua new guinea; drought in turkey’s breadbasket; another tornado in mississippi, w summer- like temps in s.e. u.s. — the usual stuff, right? but nothing on the guardian’s “natural disasters & x-treme weather” page for 3 days; climate & weather news ↓ as coronavirus news ↑↑↑ -- but first things first, right? & if you don’t hear about it, it must not be happening; or, if it’s happening, it must not be important enough to report or somebody wants to see those pews full come easter . . . “climate change is the result of too much political & economic power being placed in the hands of too few people. . . . [& when that happens,] things get real bad, real fast.” * why do you look for the living among the dead? serious question ______________________________ This quotes from Amy Westervelt in Huffington Post.
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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. |