so mass shooters kill
29 people, & non-mass shooters kill a lot more in lots of one’s and two’s; & studies hath shewn: “one standard deviation of temperature increase leads to a 4% increase in interpersonal violence and 14% increase in group violence.” meanwhile, the good news is: they say our sewage treatment plant is fixed! but raw sewage spewed into the river for several days (those downstream were warned, tho i don’t know whence they got their drinking water), & we were warned away from contact w/waters from the flood – more problems you might not think about – & fire engines towing boats – this was a new sight; water rescues necessary. the weather service had predicted a sunny week, then this! they predicted rain all day friday but barely a drizzle – weather = chaotic system, in the technical sense, & climate = chaotic (more and moreso) in the dictionary sense: thus predictions anyway become rather dicier. so what happens when people see their weather forecasts are clueless, too? but i don’t deal in forecasts: i show what’s happening now: e.g., australian outback running out of water, unusually warm in n.z., fatally hot in japan, a vietnamese village washed away (“vietnam among the most vulnerable nations to climate change impacts”), no tapwater in chennai, in gujarat, lakes dry up (“now there is no fodder or water and we can only watch our animals die”), in zimbabwe, "the situation is very pathetic" when the rains don’t come (& the young’uns have to pan for gold to survive), houses in alaska slip into sinkholes, as the west coast down to s.f. in serious drought (omg i’m soooooooo tired of hearing about the arctic this & the arctic that; but if you want to know what all those fires are doing to a neighbor- hood near you, read this) but what can you do? i know right? it’s just too big & some- body has to take the kids to soccer practice, and pick them up, & the sunrise movement sure isn’t going to. as the irishwoman said, “i can’t be asked” – too many things on my plate already, but at least i have a plate
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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. |