i’m tired of living
in this science-fiction novel -- tireder than ever before -- of this deadly, mutating pandemic, this attempted fascist putsch, this biggest stock-market bubble of all time & the crumbling economy, these crashing electrical grids, this creeping surveillance capitalism, apartheid police state, and this funny, funny, funny, funny weather . . . these record hi’s across europe, these 25 f below avg. lo’s in russia, those record hi temps w/forest fires in japan; that 80+ f swing in temps in one week here, for that matter, or that saharan dust in scandinavia i’m tired of all the dying bats, more species of bat pushed in smaller and smaller habitats, closer to humans, who pick up their diseases i’m tired of wall street types saying "short of a climate disaster, climate change is a problem, but it’s a slow storm brewing” (not slowly enough for the folks in texas, not to mention mozambique, or peru & brazil, where 1000s of human beings are being evac’d out of flood zones, even as i write) i’m tired of hearing abt the crash in butterfly populations, & if i never hear about glaciers & polar bears again, it will be too soon; sick of hearing all the dire predictions that nobody hears anymore, hearing the u.k. environment minister tell the insurance companies all abt millions being displaced, land becoming unarable or un- inhabitable, abt x-treme weather killing “more people through drought, flooding, wildfires and heatwaves than most wars have,” or how climate chaos will “collapse ecosystems, slash crop yields, take out the infrastructure that our civilisation depends upon, & destroy the basis of the modern economy and modern society.” in fact, i’m really really tired of hearing people like him saying, “if this sounds like science fiction, let me tell you something you need to know: this is that over the last few years the reasonable worst case scenario for flooding we’ve responded to has actually happened, and it’s getting larger. . . . our thinking needs to change faster than the climate. our response needs to match the scale” it sure sounds like science fiction to me -- bad science fiction -- and i’m sick to death of it yeah, i’m tired of this science-fiction story -- i didn’t write it it is not my fantasy & i don’t want it. mind you, i don’t want it to end. i just want it to go away. i just want to go home.
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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. |