“incredible footage shows
moment apocalyptic dust storm swept through drought-stricken towns!” – epic global cataclysm! as click-bait (“wow,” she sez . . . ) but the u.k. is smaller than those storms in australia, which once again swelters in 104+° as electric grid nears capacity meanwhile, my students write about their traumas, their healing, p.t.s.d., major depression, schizophrenia, breakups & breakdowns – not climate chaos but personal chaos; they aren’t in sunrise or x.r., just trying to survive within the conditions handed to them while australia deals with venomous arachnids: “wet weather, followed by hot days, has created ‘perfect conditions for funnel-web spiders to thrive.’” at least they’re native . . . (meanwhile, i scramble to construct syllabi, find lost books, whip up something to offer students by way of learning – and manage my own neurodiversity in the university) those fires doubled the annual greenhouse gases for the whole country – “and really, what other evidence does he need that this is an emergency?” a: evidence w/a $ & lots of zeroes (& i want to retreat, curl up hermetically like a pangolin) meanwhile s. africa’s largest province declared a disaster area (drought, again); zimbabwe’s strategic grain reserve at 20% of mandatory minimum: “we need to build the capacity of our farmers to be resilient to climate change shocks such as drought, floods, crop livestock diseases, among others,” sez the gu’mment man (o is that all?) massive drought in afghanistan: “nooruddin watched helplessly as his flock of 100 sheep began to die from hunger & thirst. ‘I cut their heads off & fed them to the dogs’”; tornadoes, waterspouts in u.a.e.; (even w/o the climate craziness, things are getting crazier, poco a poco – & we’ve only got 1st world probs round here) drought in guatemala = declining food harvests = hungry children (↑ 24% in one year – if it were your enrique, mother, or your willie, that were going hungry, how fast could you walk? how many miles could you make in a few brief hours?) people on edge here there & everywhere, but do they know why or what kind of an edge? storm gloaria kills 9 in spain, un-houses 1500 french; northland n.z. just had its hottest, driest year ever; almost snowless winters in middel, eastern europe; great lakes of n. america still at record hi levels; cape hatteras notched 6 jan. all-time highs so far, & me? i have to stop spending so much time on this chronicle – there is too much else to handle w/o having to think about terrestrial meltdown, w/o having to think very much at all – it will all become obvious to everyone soon enough
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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. |