Downtown Phnom Penh on Sunday: another new u.n. report: this time,
sez twice # of disasters in last 20 yrs as in the 20 before that + twice as expensive: $3 tn vs. 1.6 -- earth on course to turn into “uninhabitable hell” (already true in more & more of that earth): war, pandemic, locusts + climate change: all bound up together, all meaning 2x # of hungry humans as last year, maybe (u.n. again); atlantic hottest in 2900 yrs. + no ice in arctic by 2035 (they thot it wd be 2050, but who’s counting?) “heh heh — well, i won’t be around to see it — good luck kiddos!” (those born after 1960 maybe suckers & losers? those born before = those in charge of emissions) & did i mention that sept. now officially hottest on record in n. hemisphere? (i can’t keep track of all the records . . .) & “as the world battles a pandemic, large swaths of the african continent have been -- lit’rally — submerged” meaning: “the only public hospital in the region, completely destroyed. so people got sick b/c of the floods. but they couldn’t go anywhere else b/c the hospital had been destroyed.” & in phnom penh, climate chaos means “sometimes people need to cross the dirty water up to waist level,” & “we cannot go to work as we are concerned about the safety of our children. we are afraid they'll drown or be electrocuted because the floodwaters are nearly reaching the power lines” -- but it never ceases to amaze me: all the quotations from experts & officials, and so few from “people on the ground,” i.e., humans on the business end of global heating, maybe b/c they live in the global south, mostly, meaning they’re poor & don’t consume as much as northerners, so don’t make as much money for other people as we do, so they get the sh*t end, they get the garbage “gross oversimplification!” yes. & the over- simplicity of it is what kills you, in the end.
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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. |