climate change
is a “thing” this week – until the smoke clears, maybe (if it does): bolsonaro bows to “intl. pressure” & sends army to fight forest fires; meanwhile, the scientist sez “if we kill enough Amazon forest . . . it almost means game over for our battle against climate change” (wait, there’s a battle?); well, that sort of talk gets yr attention, esp. when 7k sq mi had already burned from jan - july.; nobody knows how much has burned since then; but bolivia has lost 2900 sq mi so far. & gov. jay inslee, the “climate-change candidate for prez drops out: people not interested; & a fiction-writer friend sez her agent sez: “send me anything but climate fiction – it’s all I’m getting but nobody wants to read it.” & can you blame em? the message is: hunker down, critters – there’s no stoppin it – you can’t get off the tracks, so better duck – whatever that means to you. there is a cyclone headed for the arctic. & a megalithic circle reemerges from the bottom of a dried-up reservoir in spain! back to the stone age . . . meanwhile floods in nigeria destroy tents in refugee camp, hundreds killed, thousands dis- placed; but if drowned or suffocated people don’t get to you, think about the donkeys of namibia, apparently in its worst drought ever: canals and fields “are messed up with stinking rotten donkey carcasses as drought takes its toll on the poor draught animals. Village dogs on continuous meat feast – they take along their puppies to feed”; & if donkeys die, fields don’t get ploughed; if fields don’t get . . . well, you see where this is going . . .
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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. |