last week’s city
commission meeting: 3 ½ hrs. on air b&b -- to regulate or not to regulate -- 45 minutes on climate crisis: my livelihood, my peace & quiet next year trumps (if i may) the risk of house- lessness in 10. i mean, who knows what will happen 10 years from now? nobody, that’s who. but we do have a pretty good idea: a whole lot of people from the coasts are going to need air b&b’s, regular b&b’s, apartments, section 8 housing, home- less shelters or free tents in these parts if things keep going like they’re going & the paper didn’t report it, but the commish committed the city to 100% re- newables by 2035 (the sun- risers talked them down from 2050). i’ll report back in 2035 . . . meanwhile, back in 2020, here’s what was happening: a 37 mi. x 25 mi. cloud of locusts in kenya (one of many in e. africa & arabian pen.); & a sq. mi. patch can eat as much as 90 k people would in a day (meaning the 90 k will have to look for food elsewhere . . .); “bible coming to life?” (jerusalem post headline) “breeding fast . . . changes in global climate patterns . . . major cyclones, heavy rains . . . india has managed to prevent a swarm of biblical proportions from spilling over into bangladesh, burma, & then china—where the coronavirus has already paralyzed much of the country’s activity. but it’s not clear how long that line will hold,” what with them being active all winter, & when one locust lays 300 eggs in 3 mo. (in saudi, march will see them hatch, for round 2); o — plus which — they emit a foul-smelling secretion that deters birds from eating them (climate “change”: it’s not just for sea-level rise anymore) flash floods, land- slides in s. peru & flash floods, land- slides in java (buy hey only 14 people killed — not disasters, right?) & "some people are getting enormous rain & their next-door neighbours are getting virtually nothing," sez the rancher in w. central n.s.w., whose 30 dams are dried up, while the coast is getting pummeled; while in lituania, this early feb., “trees and plants bud, forget- me-nots sprout, butterflies flicker on a sunny day”: lovely weather! (for june); weather is news but weather is not climate, therefore climate is not news but in 2018, “61% (17.2 million) of the newly-displaced were by natural disasters; 39% (10.8 m) by conflict and violence” — rethinking “front line” -- which will be great for the air b&b’s, if any of these folks salvage anything before they fled
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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. |