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Showing posts with label how to make global warming warmer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to make global warming warmer. Show all posts

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Rendezvous: Sixth Extinction

Disaster capitalism, please meet climate change,
your friend who when you convert them properly
to the causes for social division closest to your heart,
I know - other people thought you did not have one.

But when you first met the climate, Capitalism, D.
she could not see you in your disguise.
you were cloaked in maths and theology.
empire, and wars where people fought
to not have to recognise each other
until one side, at least, could fight no more.

Now the past is passed, the old covers are blown,
you can meet each other naked and face to face
for that final meeting, as far as we can tell.

To create the sixth extinction. 

Sunday, 26 January 2025

The Weather With You

Amongst the winter season adverts
that seem to be popular in countries
that view their weather as c-o-l-d
-though the temperature is temperate
compared with cold in the countries
that are coldest in the populated world
-come glossy adverts for holiday breaks
in sunny climes, where the host countries
speak the language of the tourists, and offer
them food and drink that tastes of home,
amid luxury lodgings that are presented as 'self tidying'. 

How much do the audience for these adverts
for cheap holidays realise that when more of them
fly to escape the cold, that is not that cold really,
they will be the harbingers of more extreme weather
in the future, when the price of their flights
is added to the otherwise unaccounted for cost 
of preserving the biosphere for the future?