No More Fairy Tales, VI
for Greta Thunberg
tongues of forest fires
there's no Plan[et] B, the rest
blah, blah, blah ...
FYI: The New Yorker, Nov.21, 2022: Climate Change from A to Z
It was thirty years ago that the world’s “so-called leaders” gathered in Rio de Janeiro for the so-called Earth Summit. Everyone agreed that radical change was needed. To avert disaster, global CO2 emissions, which were then running at around twenty-two billion metric tons a year, would have to be reduced, eventually almost to zero...A follow-up conference of the parties, or cop, took place in Kyoto in 1997. By then, annual global emissions had risen to twenty-four billion tons....By 2015, emissions had increased to thirty-five billion tons a year. At that year’s cop—No. 21—held in Paris, it was decided that, at last, really and truly, it was time to get serious...
this year’s, in Sharm el-Sheikh, just concluded—and to speak loftily about “net zero” and “a low-carbon economy.” But nothing will change, and, as a result, everything will change...
And for more, see "Special Feature" post, Poems Selected to Challenge these "Talks" at COP 27
