forbes mag suggests
this nature-driven econ crisis may portend what’s climate chaos will do (or what we will in response): “financial drivers for execs & markets = tax cuts, 0% interest, short-term gains [and the occasional bailout] not real-world factors like profitability, unit economics, or climate science” (or epidemiology, it appears) “7 best trees to plant in small gardens” next to “kenyan farmers brace for second onslaught of crop-devouring locusts” -- & what happens after the locusts die back? or to those ornamental trees when it’s too hot to grow them? but: happy belated world water day! (3/22: who knew?) many in chile celebrate by choosing between drinking water, washing hands with it (20 sec!) or watering their veggies (record drought won’t stop; & big ag gets the h2o); in parts of vietnam, they now truck in fresh water b/c the tap water = salt water (that drought in the mekong delta, dont you know); “water is now as precious as gold. it would be a sin to waste even a drop of it that they brought from 100s of km away” meanwhile: it’s flooding in the u.a.e. (true!), also iraq, turkey, moldova; & iran, hit hard by virus, loses ≥ 11 people so far in spring flooding — hopefully not a repeat of last year; 6 dead of flooding in indiana; even the dogsled race in alaska disrupted by inundations (what with the snow melting & all) ~400 dead from smoke from australian wildfires; & food prices go ↑ & ↑ (1st wildfire, now crisis capitalism — i.e., gouging) but now the good news: bumper crop of butterflies for the u.k. last summertime! a bumper crop of froggies here in douglas co., kansas; & they can raise wine grapes in scandinavia now -- yay scandinavian wineries! so tune in for our next exciting episode . . . will il trumpe give $2 trillion to cronies in his carbon-farting party? will the let-up in co2 emissions survive the pandemic? will the economic meltdown spur a switch to a green economy? find out here — in the . . . poem of our climate
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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. |