ooo — scary, kids --
veerry scary! micahel mann’s words keep running in my brain: if trump gets re-elected, “it’s game over for the climate.” trick or trump? & oil money flows into efforts to keep you from electing anybody (gonna let ‘em?) but if the game is really over, won’t it be a relief? i mean, no- body will have to worry about mitigation any more . . . meanwhile the weather doesn’t care who wins: witness hurricane zeta, smashing the gulf coast again, blowing down trees, 2 m in the dark (& zeta is only the 6th letter in the greek alphabet, btw) witness: typhoon molave whacks an already-flooded vietnam: 35 dead so far; 50 missing; 89k homes destroyed (“I can see bits of roof, perhaps mine included, & tree branches flying under sky thick w/clouds” — nguyen van muoi) & 2 m cattle, poultry killed calif. firefighters “gained ground” on wildfires: silverado fire 25% contained; blue ridge fire, 16% -- but 70 k humans evac’d anyhow; & l.a. recorded 70+ f for 192 days: another record bites the dust (literal dust: not much rain) 2.7 m acres burned in e. bolivia; 15 meter-hi waves in sligo, ireland; chennai gets 8” of rain -- motorscooters trying to scoot through water over the wheels -- “all drains are blocked . . . they have been focusing only on covid” (same chennai that ran out of water last yr after 200 days w/no rain); another typhoon for phillipines kills 16, destroys 27k homes; 2000-yr flood in n.s.w., australia; even as “south africa is drying up & it’s going to get worse” & in korea, kimchi shortages! fields of cabbage wiped out by … you guessed it … x-treme weather — but no direct link to: bogs drying out in germany; 7 k seals dead in namibia; freak marine heatwaves; logging in rainforests & boreal forests; perma- frost degradation & ex- ploding pingo craters; retreating sea ice, declining albedos . . . who gives a flying fuck about any of that, when they’re taking down our beautiful monuments! indoctrinating our people to hate their country! running pedophilia rings out of govt. office bldgs.! so get a grip, america — don’t mask up for halloween or anything else; don’t stop driving; don’t stop spending. or barhopping. you can cast runes, cast spells, cast yr troubles to the wind, but go ahead and try to cast a vote i dare u
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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. |