so, the cartoon shows two frogs,
sitting in a pot of water; one reads the paper w/a head- line “vaccine’s coming” & sez “yay, some good news!” while the pot is licked by flames under- neath, labelled “climate crisis.” why are editorial cartoons so seldom funny? unless maybe you are some god, watching some farce play out b/c remember that massive drop in co2 emissions last spring? well, turns out it didn’t stop the concentrations from rising exponentially; but at the time we sed yay some good news. but now, some slightly- less-bad news wd be welcome. but weather news is not the place to find it: e.g., first hurricane ever to strike somalia struck yesterday, the strongest ever measured in the n. indian ocean (warmer ocean temps = strong storms, it turns out); while in honduras, shelters filled up fast, so victims of eta & iota sleep rough under overpasses, neighborhoods still flooded; “what will we have when we go back? nothing,” sez “housewife irma sarmiento”; & tides are getting higher in charleston (s.c.); basketweaver vickie hicks tell us “god is taking back his land”; & from the wtf dept.: tornado in ontario; tornado warnings on cape cod & martha’s vineyard; but in e. cape, south africa's biggest-ever tornado touched down — 1000s houseless, roofless humans, swaddled in “disaster blankets.” meanwhile 3.4 m acres burned in bolivia this yr, in the midst of massive drought; the guaraní people who live there, like aldemar flores, say “the lack of water is suffocating our communities. . . . they can’t plant, and the livestock begin to die”; & scientists report 1200-3000 “excess deaths” from california wildfires this year (all that smoke); & as the smoke clears from last month’s massive wildfire in new zealand, “fire & emergency” advises “have a non-flammable doormat” (among other things); & did i mention that europe recorded its hottest-ever oct.? anyway. in that cartoon (in my imaginary version), the next frame shows the other three frogs, thinking, “boiling will affect other frogs, but not me”; or “global boiling is a hoax perpetrated by frogs in the deep pot”; & the last frame shows the poor frogs, bloated bellies up, long stiffened legs stretched taught, coming along nicely
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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. |