No, it's not Siberia, and it's not caused by methane explosions. Read on. (AFP PHOTO via Daily Sabah) it’s post-earth
day: many happy returns i read in the paper today where grasshopper numbers have shrunk 2%/yr for decades — this, even tho the grass is growing bigger, due to all that co2 we’re putting out. why? well, the grasses hold the same amount of nutrients -- “grasshopper junk food,” ha ha. like that cereal commercial, where you have to eat 8 bowls to get the same nutrition from only one bowl of whatever cereal it’s advertising, and every- body knows nobody will eat 8 bowls of any cereal fewer grasshoppers = fewer pests, right? well, fewer grasshoppers now = new, more prolific species evolving; plus which, fewer grasshoppers = fewer predatory birds = more rodents; & less nutritious grass means forget about yr grass-fed range-free beef . . . meanwhile 7 yrs of drought in n. & e. cape, south africa lasted longer than any other in 100 years, until rains came in 2020; that’s when the locusts started to swarm -- see, their eggs can last for yrs, even in drought, underground; when moisture comes, they all hatch at the same time, scarf up the grazing grasses, corn, & everything else with a touch of green, 8 km-worth/day but even now, in nelson mandela bay municipality (née port elizabeth), s. africa, reservoirs have dropped to 13% (& lake mead at 39) as 38k+ somali people this year packed up what’s left of their lives to look for someplace with water (while other parts of country suffer inundation), while in central turkey, groundwater irrigation opens 600 massive sink- holes (not enough water underneath to hold up the soil above); "until last year, we had never seen a drought like this," sez farmer kamil işıklı; now they can’t pay bills, irrigation’s so costly & that torrential daylong storm that hammered the capital of angola (luanda) monday? it killed 24 human beings, swamped 2300+ homes collapsed 60 homes + submerged 14 schools, 4 heath centers, 4 bridges i lisp in numbers for the numbers come & keep coming, this post-earth day
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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. |