hi’s abt 10f > norm
lo’s + 15: w/every new wild swing you wonder is this the new “new normal”? just add one month to summer, a few more weeks of humidification & heat indices until . . . what? it cools off? blizzards? well, the teenagers notice: “it’s like a dystopian novel, to grow up seeing the world fall apart around you & knowing it’s going to be the fight of your lives to make people stop it.” 57% in u.s. are “afraid” but 54% are “motivated”; 79% of adults “accept the scientific consensus,” 86% of teens – and 4 in 10 of them think climate change “a crisis” & facing it requires “major sacrifices from ordinary americans” . . . which means 6 in 10 think it isn’t and doesn’t . . . “it’s hardly ever brought up at school”; you can’t talk w/yr family abt it; “the wealthier you are the more protection you have,” sez the african-american hi-schooler – and the same could go for countries too: if you’re bahamian, you you may not know where your family is; if maharashran, you may not have a home to go to; if mozambiquan, 6 mo. after cyclone idai, you probably lack food & you may be living in a refugee camp (77k are); if native alaskan, you may have to collect sea water to flush the toilet or watch yr home slide into a sinkhole or the sea . . . but meanwhile 3 out of 3 pigs think their house will hold up despite all the huffing and puffing . . . but as for the piglets: ¼ of them have: walked out of school attended a protest written a letter & are scared and mad and may look you in the eyes & say so
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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. |