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We #match
Because we’re opposites
You push
I pull
You say “fuck it!”
I say “let’s think about this”
You are social
People scare me
You lift us into the air
I stop us floating off
Our contests
Our matches
Ignite sometimes
Your will
My will
Never serious
Our demonstrations of trust
You can give
I can take
Or vice versa
Because what good is being a beacon
On the shoreline of each others lands
If we aren’t also rocks
To crash our waves against?
In youth,
#green and vulnerable,
the world vastly uncharted
every well-made argument changed
the direction I would look.
I’d choose sides
for which to sacrifice myself
and go down with ships
and die on hills
never giving an inch,
roaring at everyone
for being too blind
to see life’s simplicity.
Aging enough to pause now
and to tire of fighting,
I finally discover nuance:
that old-fashioned instrument
the world is busy discarding.
it's just business
said the bee to the flower
and for once it was
#Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt #Haiku #Senryu
Thanks @tanweerdar for the prompt - pollinate.
Why are so many climate scientists so scared and so angry?
Maybe it's because they know better than most of us how bad our situation today truly is, and how horribly we've been betrayed by our so-called leaders.
Here's an excerpt from an excellent piece on this subject by Alan Urban...
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Even if the planet stopped getting warmer right now, we would still be in big trouble. The ice caps would keep melting and sea levels would keep rising.
Look at what’s happening at a mere 1.2°C of warming. We’re already seeing some of the worst heat waves in human history, not to mention record-breaking floods, droughts, wildfires, and water shortages.
But of course, warming isn’t going to stop at 1.2°C. Because of the heat we’ve already trapped in the atmosphere, and because we continue to emit huge amounts of greenhouse gases every year, the climate is warming exponentially.
All of these climate-related crises are stretching farms to the limit, yet this is just the beginning. As crop yields decline and the population grows, we will see food insecurity get worse and worse until we’re in a global famine.
And that right there is why climate scientists are scared. They understand that human civilization was born during the Holocene, when global temperatures were very stable and stayed within a range of about 1°C.
As we push the planet out of that range and raise the temperature about 50 times faster than would occur naturally, it will become harder and harder to produce enough food to feed everyone, and this will lead to social instability, political upheaval, the worst migration crisis ever, and wars over resources.
Disasters that weren’t supposed to happen until we reached 1.5°C are happening now, so we can only imagine what will happen when we hit 2° or 3°C.
This is why top scientists from around the world are warning us that we face a ghastly future filled with untold suffering. They’ve been telling us over and over, year after year, summit after summit, that we have to stop burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible. But as you can see [below], the world keeps ignoring them.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40CollapseSurvival%2Ffaster-than-expected-why-climate-scientists-are-so-scared-985db6579f2e
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism
As a young person
I threw myself at ambition,
like achieving a goal
would allow the world
to open its iron doors,
and someone would say
“you’re one of us now,
come meet your tribe”.
But,
to be blunt,
they’re pointless:
all those little nothings
that we learn we must aim for,
committed and unidirectional
like
flying
arrows.
Now that I am old enough
to see my time as finite,
I relish each joy
I landed upon
when I missed the target.
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The Morning After
I wake up
with a pounding head
and a resentment
repeating on me
like last night’s kebab.
My shell-shocked priority
is to rise from the sweat-stained bed,
wipe my face of beer-drool
and pieces of meat
that fell in battle
on the barbed wire of my beard.
The creases and folds
that trench across
the grey no-mans land
in the mirror,
tell me I’m too old and grizzled
for these tiny wars,
that I should surrender,
at least for now.
#MastoPrompt #Hangover #SmallPoems #Writing
What is our priority?
Putting crowns on the rich?
Or shoes on the poor?
“People who criticize new technologies are sometimes called Luddites, but it’s helpful to clarify what the Luddites actually wanted. The main thing they were protesting was the fact that their wages were falling at the same time that factory owners’ profits were increasing, along with food prices. They were also protesting unsafe working conditions, the use of child labor, and the sale of shoddy goods that discredited the entire textile industry. The Luddites did not indiscriminately destroy machines; if a machine’s owner paid his workers well, they left it alone. The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice. They destroyed machinery as a way to get factory owners’ attention. The fact that the word #Luddite is now used as an insult, a way of calling someone irrational and ignorant, is a result of a smear campaign by the forces of capital.”
Ted Chiang in the New Yorker.
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