Why the kids aren’t alright

 From today’s US edition of The Guardian:

• Extreme heat summit to urge leaders to act on threat from rising temperatures


• ‘Everybody has a breaking point’: how the climate crisis affects our brains


• Sinking US cities increase risk of flooding from rising sea levels


• ‘Tone-deaf’ fossil gas growth in Europe is speeding climate crisis, say activists

COMBINED WITH

• Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals

'NUFF  SAID [almost]

Let Them Not Say

Jane Hirshfield
1953 – 

Let them not say:   we did not see it.
We saw.

Let them not say:   we did not hear it.
We heard.

Let them not say:     they did not taste it.
We ate, we trembled.

Let them not say:   it was not spoken, not written.
We spoke,
we witnessed with voices and hands.

Let them not say:     they did nothing.
We did not-enough.

Let them say, as they must say something: 

A kerosene beauty.
It burned.

Let them say we warmed ourselves by it,
read by its light, praised,
and it burned.

—2014

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