“this is how climate change
will increase human conflict”; “climate change could collide w/coronavirus to create a summer from hell” -- no wonder nobody reads. alls i know is it’s 10 degrees > normal here in our little postage stamp of central north america; call it “yearheat savings time” -- everything’s one month too soon, it seems; but we’re not going to “fall back” . . . meanwhile may was 50 f > normal in siberia, warmest ever; but guess what? it was warmest may everywhere! sez the european cli-sci’s; 2010s were hottest decade ever; by 2050 . . . well, you’re not too concerned with what happens in 30 years, believe me. you’ve got other things to worry about; or, as one of the sunrise kids sd back when they were occupying offices on capitol hill, the only thing worse than climate chaos is climate chaos + fascism (as many in the world know only too well . . .) “watch as massive landslide . . .” no one can self-isolate from climate change, the central bankers say . . . drought in n. europe this spring; drought for 7 yrs in c. s. africa; why is it flooding in yemen?? why did the “empty quarter” flood in 2018? = why are there swarms of locusts all over e. africa and s. asia cyclone nigara weakens, changes course, sparing mumbai a direct hit (what we call “dodging a bullet”); mean- while bangladesh cleans up after cyclone amphan: 350k houses busted/destroyed, 435,000 acres of crops swept away, 10,000s in need of food now still raining in el salvador & yucatán, cristóbal headed toward u.s. “gaping permafrost crater caused by methane release” (don’t google methane + climate. just don’t.)
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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. |