no arctic, no animals,
esp. no arctic animals — so no news about how “polar bears in russia’s arctic increasingly resort to ----------- as growing human activity & development shrinks their hunting grounds” while “climate coverage in 2019 still made up only 0.6% of overall corporate broadcast t.v. news & talk shows” [u.s.] while “medical schools focus more & more on treating patients affected by the impacts of extreme weather & changing climate patterns – like asthma attacks from wildfire smoke, heat exhaustion from sweltering temps & diseases carried by insects moving into new locations . . . ‘the sense that we’re at an emergency level of this crisis has finally started to sink in’” (so to speak) but “for a modern american audience, it is hard to convey just how devastating swarms of locusts can be: they can move up to 100 miles in a day. they eat as much as 35k people do. you really have to go back decades in the u.s., to dust bowl days, to understand just how devastating this can be” even as “the rains began in december in burundi, where roads, bridges & crops have been destroyed, livestock killed & vital water access points washed away. houses built of mud bricks have literally melted in the rain . . . ‘i am desperate,’ she says. ‘i have no idea where i am going to sleep tonight. we have lost everything’" not to mention “climate change-driven global warming is a factor behind repeated instances of severe flooding across greater jakarta since early jan.” and “another downpour or two could push many communities in madagascar past their annual rainfall amount before mid-march” meanwhile, in australia, southernmost outpost of the global north: “when you're lined up at the supermarket, green grocer or deli getting your grocery shopping sorted, the people who actually grew and produced your food are the last thing on your mind. but this bushfire disaster, which hit our most productive areas brought primary producers to the front of our national psyche” while, back where you are, what’s at the front of your psyche, dear reader? . . .
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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. |