It was the hottest April ever recorded, 1.58°C warmer than the estimate of the April average for 1850-1900. 1.5C is long dead. It's time to get very serious about climate mitigation, or this civilization is heading over a very steep cliff.

Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me…
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A lover, once: You can’t say every action is political. Then the word political loses all meaning.

He added: What is political about this moment?

I was washing his dishes. I had left the water running.

—Solmaz Sharif

Wish they’d do this these days.

New research published in Nature today finds that we are on track for climate damages worth $38 trillion per year by 2050. This is a staggering figure. The damages are projected to be worth 6x more than the mitigation costs of limiting global warming to 2C.…

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I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe. But now I think that poetry changes only the poet.

—Mahmoud Darwish

Thank you, Dave Dave Bonta - really happy my review made it here.

Thank you, Dave Dave Bonta . So glad to find my poem here.

Bang on from George Monbiot.

And something Christopher Luxon Shane Jones MP etc should take heed of as the rush to start new mining and oil exploration.

UN sounds 'Red Alert' as world smashes heat records in 2023 reut.rs/48WJKWV

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The Ides of March has passed.

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This is the definitive cartoon for our times.

Thanks so much, Dave Dave Bonta Am so glad this poem was included.

Thanks for including my poem, Dave. Dave Bonta

In terms of poetry, I'm struggling. Not the writing, but the reading. I guess it's a product of the state of the world, but I only want work that is full of rage, poison, is obtuse, ill-fitting. I have no room for triviality. I know this is unreasonable / I am unreasonable.