happy kansas day!
new model predicts we may have a lot of company, soon - “suburban and rural areas in the midwest will experience disproportionately large in- flux of people relative to their smaller local populations” “when migration occurs naturally,” the computer scientist sez, “it is a great engine for economic activity & growth. but when migration is forced upon people, productivity falls; human & social capital are lost; communities are broken apart.” as in small island nations, where “traditional way of life is deteriorating”; & in bolivia, the price of chicken is going up up up; in finland, the flowers bloom already; n. queensland drowns while s.e. queensland bakes; new wildfire bears down on the capital canberra; flooding spreads to rwanda, mozambique (45 dead so far); & botswana elephants trample each other to try to get to what little water is left in the watering hole . . . all due to c.c. scott morrison won’t feel it; donald trump won’t feel it; xi jinping won’t feel it; exxon-mobil won’t feel it; the rest of us are living in it, up to our eyeballs or seeping in around our feet; dry land moving fast; as the song says get it while you can . . .
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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. |