exhausted
so just i am -- you? when i was a kid, we thought we’d die in a “nuclear holocaust,” like the people in japan, but much much worse; then the cold war ended & all the nukes went away just like that. the end. they talked about mega- tons of t.n.t. but nobody in 1945 had thought that way before, so had trouble “wrapping their heads around” it. but who needs nukes? this year’s siberian fire season (whoever thought we’d say that?) this year’s siberian fire season already released more co2 than the combined avg. annual emissions of all of scandinavia (norway, sweden, denmark, finland), viz., 204 megatons-worth, 64 more than all of last year. i’m not going to talk about what that means. you can read all about it yrself. meanwhile, flooding killed 20 people in yemen (no names), 17 in korea, w/11 missing (no names), 5 in e. u.s. (no names); “houses & bridge destroyed” (sudan) “saved almost 700 people” (saudi) “affected more than 60k people” (myanmar) “submerged, affecting 13k” (mindanao) “roads ‘have become rivers’” (co. kerry) “collapse of bout earth dam” (sudan) “hottest mo. since records began” (hong kong) “wettest july on record” (mumbai) a waterfall flowed backwards in china; a river flowed backwards in cambodia 2.8 k-tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in beirut, & the world feels like a bomb right now; it feels like it’s going to go on going off
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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. |