A CLIMERICK for COP 29 Digitalisation Day
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O COP where you digitalise,
the world needs you all to be wise,
and drive global trends
that will bring to an end
excessive resource use and lies!
And you can find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE
Here’s my response to yesterday’s election news from the USA.
Mr Trump, you are headed to be
THE GREAT FOOL OF WORLD HISTORY.
If you boost coal and oil,
the planet will boil;
then it’s curtains for Earth, YOU and me.
Please don’t just like this: SHARE it as widely as you can.
Set it to music, illustrate it, make videos of it,
Can we try to make sure the President Elect sees it and hears it at every turn he takes?
Let’s do all we can to make that happen.
This is a CLIMERICK (Climate Concern Limerick). You will find lots more at
http://eco-verses.blogspot.com
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A Churchyard:
In this Little Patch of Creation
With many churches working to promote the biodiversity in their churchyards, here is a novel way to invite people in. Further Climericks will build on this invitation.
In this little patch of Creation,
we invite you to find restoration
for your body and soul,
in this place, with its rôle -
to give peace that will last generations.
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Materials Science is where
you will find a great body of care
for sustainability
at scale capability.
Financiers, Go! Invest there.
In the September 2024 issue of Materials World are articles on bringing colour to solar panels making them more attractive to architects; recycling of critical metals from spent alkaline batteries, improved recycling of solid state lithium batteries; The next generation of smart offshore windfarms; how precise measurement is vital in the race to net zero and 3D printing of natural material flooring panel (to replace steel) and more
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When next you are eating a spud,
Think! Its flowers, stalks and leaves were just crud.
But research has found
that this garbage abounds
with fibres for fashion – that’s good!
Article in The New Scientist 7th September 2024 reports on the findings by a team at Imperial College London that the fibres from the above-the-ground waste from potatos (estimated to be 150million tonnes a year) can be used as a cotton fibre substitute,with the potential of saving huge crop space and diminishing water usage.
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If top level sport is your dream,
watch out! Who’s financing your team?
If they thrive upon coal,
Gas or foul diesel fuel,
‘Kick ‘em out!’. Raise a real head of steam.
BBC Climate news reported on 18.09.24
Fossil fuel companies have invested more than £4bn in sports sponsorship "in an attempt to divert attention from their role in fuelling the climate crisis and harming human health”, according to a new report.
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It’s almost too good to be true,
free basalt for farms from Undo*:
when crushed it takes in
CO2, that’s a win
and makes farmland more fertile too.
Article accessed from BBC Climate section at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg3legn80xo dated 12.09.24 which reports
'A company called *Undo is now offering basalt free to farmers and sends its own contractors to spread it on the land.
Because it captures carbon, the process is funded by carbon credits which big companies buy to offset their planet warming greenhouse gas emissions.
XinRan Liu, director of science and research with Undo, describes it as a transformative measure in the fight against climate change.
He said: "It's the most scalable technology. We have huge deposits of rock globally ready to go and we have farmlands in every single continent."
"All of that means that we could achieve billions of tons of removal on a very fast timescale for the climate.”
Some comments following the news item focused on the fact that the scheme is being financed to allow some major polluters to purchase carbon credits. Whilst understanding their indignation, the basis of a scheme that has the potential to absorb substantial quantities of Carbon dioxide, seems to me to be one that is worth celebrating. Doesn’t the planet need all the help it can get?
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Friday 13th Sept 2024: Climerick: Today is a day to be glad
Today is a day to be glad
That a new coal-mine’s deemed to be bad
For Cumbria and further
As it would help murder
The Earth; so was quite clearly mad.
A triumph for Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Action on Climate Change (SLACC). Reported by BBC News: Friday 13th Sept 2024
‘Plans to build the UK's first deep coal mine in more than 30 years have been quashed.
Two campaign groups had brought a legal action over the previous government's decision to grant planning permission for the site near Whitehaven in Cumbria’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrlrkz5k2ro.
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Midnight is so close to hand
How much more can our planet stand
Carbon’s still on the rise
Yet planes still crowd the skies
Why the hell ain’t all short-flight shit banned?
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Solar lights in an African village
will avoid lethal kerosene spillage;
they cut through the gloom,
and reduce toxic fumes:
even more, make for CO2 shrinkage.
This Climerick arose out of receiving an Email appeal from Eko,an international campaigning organisation based in San Francisco: Solar Links Initiative is a registered UK Charity which, in my view, appears from its financial information lodged with the Charity Commission to have the capacity to meet the aims of the appeal ie. to equip all homes in appropriate villages to ensure even handed support throughout the selected village(s) . I have made a modest monthly donation directly to Solar Links Initiative (SLI) because the simple logic that the project resonates strongly with the aims of Climericks.
Response from Phyllida Purvis of SLI received 14.09.24
'I am also delighted to receive your limerick and will certainly use it. It makes one smile – and think, as I am sure all your climericks do! Thank you very much ... we, and most importantly, the families who move out of the darkness, are most grateful.'
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United Utilities cease
Releasing sewage please:
Lakes and rivers should be
Pollution-free,
So healthy fish stocks can increase
BBC website https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyx6wvlqz0o 30/8/2024
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On many Pacific Isles
Most homes are within three miles
Of the rising sea
People there could be
Victims of first-world lifestyles
Article in Guardian (28/8/24). Headline: Rising sea levels mean Pacific islands in 'grave danger', warns UN chief
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This Climerick is aimed at those who are and will be visiting The Lake District, so is particularly germane just ahead of the UK Bank Holiday weekend. But will also be relevant to many Lakes elsewhere in the UK or other countries that attract high volumes of tourist traffic
You tourists who visit the Lakes,
please avoid making mistakes.
Don’t drive; Park and Ride!
in nature take pride;
don’t litter or pollute the lakes!
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Doctors jailed for climate change protest
had their licence reviewed by weird process,
then absurdly, withdrawn
through wild claptrap that’s spawned
in the GMC – they’re the real ogres.
Two doctors who have taken part in peaceful climate change protests have been jailed and to add insult to injury, the GMC have disgracefully withdrawn their licences to practice. (Observer report 18.08.2024)
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I’m on an astronomy retreat this week with The *Othona Community in Bradwell on Sea, Essex. Rhythms of the community are dictated by brief morning and evening reflections in the close-by 7th century chapel built by St Cedd and swimming! That is because the only a proportion of the guests are here for the Astronomy; for a greater proportion, this is a family holiday with a guest star, Ivy who at 18 months has, I think, managed to charm everyone.
Every activity here is shared in some way by the guests and I was invited first to take an evening reflection, yesterday to say grace at lunchtime, and today I have been on lunch-time washing up duty, which is no small task with 90 guests. Thankfully the community has invested in modern cleaning equipment which is powered by off-grid electricity: an impressive feature which makes hosting such a large holiday-time population, practicable.
This, being my first summer week attendance here, I was a bit taken aback to be asked to lead grace on Tuesday lunchtime. I decided to follow a conventional meal-time Grace with a Climerick specially composed for the event!
My friends as we eat and drink well,
Please give thought to whom you might tell
That Othona’s off-grid,
In a small, vital bid,
To help head off Climate change hell.
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What a gift? It would make many glad,
if new buildings had to be clad
with solar to heat
their air-con’s - so beat
the need for grid power: that’s not bad!
Idea From New Scientist – Readers’ Letters 27/7/24. Heat could, of course be directly used for much more than just aircons – but they are such hungry beasts!
