CLIMERICKS:' Lower Emissions, Oh, don’t even start!' and 'Why Shouldn’t I Fly in a Plane?'

 

Today, two Climericks illustrating the attitudes of many of us in the wealthy West.

 Lower Emissions, Oh, don’t even start!

 By Abby Brook, Gloucester

Lower emissions, Oh, don’t even start!

It’s too inconvenient by far.

I don’t even like

Seeing people on bikes;

You won’t get me out of my car!

Why Shouldn’t I Fly in a Plane? 

By Kathryn Price of ACW*

 

Why shouldn’t I fly in a plane?

You can’t cross the ocean by train,

And I simply must

Take vacations or bust!

While penguin chicks die in the rain.

*ACW  Association of Christian Writers.

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CLIMERICKS: 'As Every Day’s Hotter and Wetter’ and 'The Names For Storms May Seem Quite Charming'

As Every Day’s Hotter and Wetter 

(by Kathryn Price, ACW*)

As every day’s hotter and wetter

The flooding gets worse and not better.

Take off your coat

In your town in your boat,

Wear just a thin waterproof sweater.

 

 

The Names For Storms May Seem Charming 

(by Kathryn Price, ACW*)

The names for storms may seem quite charming

But their frequency’s rather alarming.

We race from A to Zed

But more should be said

On the way that the Earth we are harming. 

*ACW Association of Christian Writers

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CLIMERICKS: 'Might Cloud Seeding Just Be a Lie?' and 'The Planet Can Never Be Healthy'

Might Cloud-seeding Just Be a Lie? 

By Trevor Thorn

 

Might cloud seeding just be a lie

to downplay the rain in Dubai?

There's a lot they would lose

if world leaders should choose

Greening quickly, so Earth might not die.

 

Dubai is flooded by a year’s rainfall in a single day. Various news agencies including CNN and BBC 18^th April 2024 and onwards.

Image: Modified Pixabay free image

The Planet Can Never Be Healthy 

by Trevor Thorn

 

The planet can never be healthy.

whilst taxes are skewed, so the wealthy 

can live without care

and poison the air

with lifestyles both brazen and stealthy.

 

Based on “Views’: No Planet B, Graham Lawton, New Scientist 13.04.2024

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CLIMERICKS: LET’S ENCOURAGE CREATORS OF ART & PROMISE OF WIDE ENCOURAGEMENT TO MAKE PROTESTS TO WORLD LEADERS

 

In the next ten days there will be a new CLIMERICK every day - each one addressed to a different group of people, either by profession or by interest.

The message of these is, I hope, clear CLIMATE CHANGE IS THE BUSINESS OF EVERYONE IN THE WORLD. Everyone who can needs to make their anxieties, distress or determination lead us to making it clear over and over again to world leaders who are simply not taking this issue seriously enough.

Hopefully, this collection of short verses can give opportunities to prompt - no, batter, our own community and national leaders into swift and determined action.

Here’s a starter

Let’s encourage creators of art

to play a significant part,

in a visible storm

that infers it’s the norm

to have climate change on every heart.

Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE

3 CLIMERICKS For Earth Day: 'The Increase in Friendliness Strikes’ : ‘On Earth Day, Wake Up!'; 'Young Thinkers Please Help Build Up Hope'

Pixabay Free Image - child and bike

Here’s some changes many of us can think about as OUR contribution to Climate concern

The increase in friendliness strikes

Our community when we ride bikes,

We can stop and just talk,

It’s the same when we walk,

And there’s less traffic – what’s not to like?

 

The children are making great strides,

With their fitness on home to school rides,

And the ones who now walk,

Have more time to talk,

And we all breathe much better outside. 

 

We’re making our planet too warm,

It’s doing a great deal of harm;

Let’s get on our feet,

And reclaim our streets,

Like the Dutch did – and they’re on top form!

by Abby Brook, Abbeydale, Gloucester

And Here’s a Climerick specifically for Earth Day 22nd April 

On EARTH DAY, Wake Up! The Extremes

of weather are just what they seem;

the result of abuse

in the fuels that we use:

we must STOP! NOW! Not soon- and go green.

by Trevor Thorn

And one encouraging young people to really challenge the idea that nothing can be done: Let’s gather together to encourage them to do so. It will be their ideas that will best bring the hope we need

 

Young thinkers please help build up hope

By challenging every trope

That claims fossil fuels

Aren’t harmful and cruel,

Driving Earth down a slippery slope

by Trevor Thorn

A Right Royal Doormat Surprise, Climate Change and Climericks

The envelope from Buckingham Palace.

We returned from a few days of Retreat in Dorset recently and found this envelope on the mat. Not an everyday occurrence and quite a puzzle. When we opened the envelope, we found a delightful letter from The King’s Correspondence Secretary. It was in response to a letter I had sent to the King explaining how I was hoping to give people a voice who find it hard to know how to approach the difficult question of Climate Change and how to register their reaction to inaction on the Climate Crisis.

In the letter, the Secretary said 

'His Majesty greatly appreciates you sharing your ideas with him on this significant matter, and enjoyed hearing about your creation of climate-themed limericks in order to raise awareness for environmental issues'

Quite amazing and you can now see more about the whole Climerick initiative by clicking HERE.

I hope you will find something of interest in the collection of ‘climate-themed limericks' that encourages you to 'join in the conversations’ and from time to time express your feelings on this crucial subject.

Trevor Thorn

CLIMERICK: Please Gardeners All Kick Up a Stink

This morning we were due to join a party being shown over one of the Cambridge Colleges. This proved to be a delightful and very informative visit and we are grateful to the head gardener for his enthusiastic explanation of how the gardens have been developed during his tenure, incorporating wildlife areas and a determination to make the grounds a restful place for students, post-graduates and visitors. Before we joined the visit, arranged by one of the college fellows, I wrote the following Climerick to celebrate what was going to be a new experience for us.

Please gardeners all kick up a stink,

to make our politicos think

that much hotter summers

are hideous bummers

for gardens to stay 'in the pink’.

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CLIMERICK - MANY Sciences Point To The Facts by Trevor Thorn

It is irritating to read over and over again that THE science says this or that. With Climate concern there are MANY different disciplines all demonstrate the changes that are happening  over and over again. This Climerick is intended to highlight that fact.

MANY Sciences Point To The Facts 

Turbines and Extremes: pastel by the author 

MANY sciences point to the facts

That NOW global leaders must act

To dig coal itts grave,

So sweet Earth is saved

From their shameful ecocide pacts.

A further CLIMERICK will give you more understanding of the purpose of CLIMERICKS and has a link to more detailed explanation of their purpose and aims: to access that CLICK HERE

CLIMERICK: Take Hope, Earth Need Not Be Fried.by Trevor Thorn ACW*

 

Turbines and Extremes: pastel by the author

 

Take hope, Earth need not be fried,

If globally leaders decide

To go with the flow,

Fossil fuels must just GO

Replaced by the sun, wind and tides.

Learn more about Climericks HERE

Hoorah For The ECHR - Another CLIMERICK celebrating the ECHR decision on ending Fossil Fuel policies by Trevor Thorn

Hoorah For The ECHR*

Hoorah For The ECHR

For setting a brilliant High Bar

For phasing out fossil

Fuels ‘ cos they throttle

All life, both near and afar.

 

*European Court of Human Rights.

News item BBC 9th April 2024 - A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights. This judgement affects all member states of the EU and there is no right of appeal. The women are of the older generation, all over 70. But read the full news item at

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68768598

and let us be truly grateful to those brave women and to the court members who gave this judgement.

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It’s Brilliant! The Human Rights Court - CLIMERICK CELEBRATING AN ECO-TRIUMPH

It’s Brilliant! The Human Rights Court’s

ruled that Switzerland has to abort

its fossil fuel plans,

just as fast as it can:

so give thanks for those women who fought.

News item BBC 9th April 2024 - A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights. This judgement affects all member states of the EU and there is no right of appeal. The women are of the older generation, all over 70. But read the full news item at

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68768598

and let us be truly grateful to those brave women and to the court members who gave this judgement.

Find the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE

 

 

  

'Facta non Verba’, by John Hobbs

Pixabay + 'Blah, Blah, Rabbit, Rabbit' Rabbit!

 'Facta non Verba', they say:

You captains of industry, pray:

Get out of your habits

Spewing just, “Rabbit, rabbit!“

And take Climate ACTION today!

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The Climerick’s Quite an Invention by John Hobbs

The Climerick’s quite an invention,

With a tale to grab your attention.

Its recital of fact

Should inspire you to act,

And stimulate real intervention.

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Here’s a CLIMERICK COUPLET for Earth Hour

 Here’s a CLIMERICK COUPLET for Earth Hour

Earth Hour is a time to reflect,

On industrial scales of neglect,

Through damaging ways

That profits are made,

That don't treat the earth with respect.

 

But we can bring pressure to bear,

By taking our business elsewhere,

And not staying mute

About those that pollute

Or show that they simply don't care.

 

Trevor Thorn written on 23.03.2024

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CLIMERICKS HERE

CLIMERICK: Said an Owl “Now, a Word to the Wise!' by John Hobbs

Said an owl “Now, a word to the wise!

“This crisis we’re in’s no surprise.

“If we don’t pay some heed

“To our planetary need,

“We are facing eventual demise!” 

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