last night,
the u.k. youth climate network projected onto the bank of england -- not in the psychological sense, but rather a video of young folks sending messages to the b.o.e. directors, saying things like “in the midst of covid-19 & climate breakdown, the bank of england uses public money to support the fossil fuel industry” & "meanwhile, the treasury ignores the people forced to choose between food and rent, and prioritises companies' profits over workers.” the whole facade was a screen in fact and not just metaphorically . . . (the same cld be sd re: u.s. govt., but no projections abt that . . .) meanwhile we’re looking for heat indices around 105-110 f chez nous today; while 1200 daily heat records, 159 july heat records, & “dozens” of all-time heat records broken this week in the u.s.a.; the great lakes feel like bath- water: avg. 80 f: “algae” blooms proliferate (actually cyanobacteria, oozing neurotoxins & various carcinogenic chemicals -- if you go to the beach stay 6’ away from other people & at least that far from the lake), as b.b.c. sez “global warming will increase the chances of summer conditions that may be "too hot for humans" to work in. but hey — no hurricanes; fewest tornadoes in 70 yrs. go figure. that’s why they call it “chaos” — e.g., there are still floods in s. china — re- member them? — part of why we can’t get p.p.e., test kits, etc. — those pesky supply chains, you know; & 3 gorges dam 10 meters > its “warning level”; 50 k cubic meters/second h2o flowing into the reservoir; wuhan + 3 provinces declare “red alerts” as waters rise above “maximum guaranteed safety level” (they guarantee safety over there? ever?) elsewhere over 1 m people crammed into makeshift shelters in e. india, due to worst monsoon flooding in generations & its # of c-virus cases nears 1 m; as “rain & drainage water entered” hyderabad’s osmania hospital, turning corridors & wards “into a cesspool” . . . reading all this makes me think u.s. commercial media shuts out the “rest” of the world as effectively as any totalitarian regime’s propaganda machine, even as history rushes us on with everyone else, know it or not, our little lower-case selves borne on the currents
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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. |