“you have data
we have stories,” sd the anti-vaxxer to the public-health reporter people believe stories b/c stories don’t make you use your brain, alls you have to do is respond item (datum): earth just experienced its hottest nov. on (human) record (please read that again. pause.) then: item (story): “a public letter signed by over 250 scientists and scholars from 30 countries, calls on policy makers to engage more w/ the growing risk of societal disruption and collapse due to damage to the climate and environment.” story: “severe flash floods kill 20 in s. thailand, ½ m humans affected” story: “unremitting torrential rains dis- place 10k humans in aceh province, 17k homes swamped” story: “flooding sinks streets in bushehr & fars province, iran” story: there’s no pill for this, red, blue or any other color story: “cyclone kills 7 in tamil nadu, inundates 300 villages” story: perth, australia woke up last tues. to coldest summer morning in 124 yrs, 44 f; 96 expected today; while the canadian arctic’s in the 50s story: “some armed services already see collapse as an important scenario,” they write, “requiring planning. surveys show many people now anticipate societal collapse. sadly that is already the experience of many communities in the global south. however, the topic is not well reported & mostly absent from civil society & politics.” stories about lack of stories like the story about the birds who stopped migrating years ago.
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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. |