this is for the 50 people killed by
floods in s. sudan & the 420,000 forced to leave their homes; this is for the 48 people killed by floods in kenya & the 17,000 forced to leave their homes; this is for the 17 people killed by floods in somalia & the 370,000 forced to leave their homes; this is for the 200,000 forced to leave their homes in ethiopia; whole towns submerged: markets, schools, houses, cattle camps; “this is so hard for a disabled person like me, everyone is trying to save themselves first. the water is getting deeper daily, i cannot crawl in it”; there will be no monument for these Kenya harvests ↓ 25%; Somalia harvests ↓ 60%; first drought, then deluge, until “cereal prices in some areas have rocketed up to five-year highs, pricing out poorer people. nearly 7m people in the region are living just below the catastrophic hunger line” this is for the people in pakistan who have fallen victim to mosquito-borne diseases – 44k this year, & for the kids in india with flourosis: “prevalent across rural India, caused by excessive consumption of the mineral fluoride, usually through drinking contaminated groundwater. as fluoride builds up in the body it leads to skeletal deformities” – groundwater gets more contaminated as the water table lowers as the rains don’t come in & for the farmers, as the rains don’t come in australia, as the nation’s bread- basket dries out & shrivels up from no rain in three years; & the p.m. wants to ban climate protests; the military now can break them up and the rains don’t come to the farms in the lower yangtze valley; or those of mendoza in argentina; & that was the warmest october on record worldwide & this is for the people whose homes will be underwater soon: turns out sea level rise will swamp the homes of 3x the number of people they thought it would (40m in 30 yrs): turns out the space radar took roofs and trees to be the surface of the earth, but the surface of the earth is lower than them. I sometimes think I should cool it on the global warming stuff – just let folks enjoy what time they have left: if they want to spend it with their head in a very dark place, that’s their choice, right? It’s like I’m trying to rouse some drunken friends to get them to leave the building that’s on fire, except there’s no outside to the building, & they can’t sober up anyhow. this is for them, too.
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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. |