CLIMERICK: New Mums Who Have Children They Love

New Mums Who Have Children They Love.

New mums who have children they love

need to challenge deceit from ‘above’,

which denies global warming,

rejecting grave warnings,

and schemes with ‘big fuels’ - hand in glove.

(Greed is one of the most devastating factors in prolonging the dangerous use of fossil fuels which needs to be stopped NOW and replaced by renewables).

You can find the purpose of CLIMERICKS by clicking HERE

Go to the home page (button at bottom of this post) to see all CLIMERICKs posted to date.

CLIMERICK - If We’ve Leaders Who Say “I Dig Coal’

Open cast mining image Pixabay

 If we’ve leaders who say “I dig coal’

they are digging us into a hole

causing Earth to get hotter.

Just what kinds of rotter

Wants a climate - way out of control?

(Deniers of the effects of coal and other fossil fuels are dangerous - and they will stop at nothing to spread their lies.)

You can find the purpose of CLIMERICKS by clicking HERE

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CLIMERICK - The Bankers Invited To Lend

Who are the culprits among these?

The bankers invited to lend

for fossil fuel projects must end

their connivance with schemes

that are simply obscene, 

and will bring life on Earth to its end.

( Such bankers are a disgrace - and could close down the fossil fuel industries in short order if they recognised their responsibility to us all.)

You can find the purpose of CLIMERICKS by clicking HERE

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CLIMERICK - If You’re Reading This During Your Teens,

Earth from moon

If you’re reading this during your teens,

tell MPs you want policies green;

so there’ll be some real hope

that the planet will cope,

and the weather turn far less extreme.

(This is an invitation - no, a plea, to concerned teenagers to make MPs/ Senators aware they will soon be or already are voter(s).

If you want an idea how to make your feelings clear to your MP / Senator - of whatever party, you could adapt the letter from the model at the bottom of the explanation of how to use CLIMERICKS to make your wishes known. You can access the explanation from the image at the top of the right hand column

opposite. In the UK, MPs Names and addresses can be found on the GOV.UK site

CLIMERICK - We Need Much More Clean Power, Right NOW

   

We need much more clean power, right now,

Though fossil fuel lobbies avow,

‘There’s no need,’ - devious lies,

Full of ignorant cries

‘O come! - We don’t cause climate flows’

(This is a battle cry of the wilfully blind and the devious)

You can find the purpose of CLIMERICKS by clicking HERE

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CLIMERICK -An Energy Co. Chief Exec.,

An energy co. Chief Exec.,

Said ‘If the earth burns - what the heck!’

‘We’ll never stop drilling

Because we are filling

Our pockets at speeds quite breakneck!’

(Suggestion - flood the lobbies and entrances to any energy company’s AGM with this CLIMERICK  to make shareholders aware of their irresponsibility in investing in such companies)

You can find the purpose of CLIMERICKS by clicking HERE

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CLIMERICK - Four brave people scaled Wall and Roof

Four brave people scaled wall and roof

to remind the PM of this truth:

Selling oil and gas stakes

Irredeemably breaks

His green promise: those stakes - damning proof.

(In early August 2023, Four Greenpeace supporters scaled the roof of PM Sunak’s country home and draped it in black representing the calamity oil mining poses)

To find out how CLIMERICKS can help to give YOU a voice about Climate Chaos issues, click on the top image in the right hand column of the page. New CLIMERICKS are being posted regularly.

CLIMERICK: Said A Butterfly( Climate change and Species Loss)

Said a butterfly, ‘I’m quite perplexed

In thinking where I should lay next.

Should I veer ‘t’wards a pole

where it’s slightly more cold

or risk my brood being fried eggs?'

(Species will fail even faster if Climate change is not stopped)

find more CLIMERICKS and an explanation on the home page HERE

What are CLIMERICKS (Screen-based protest on Climate Concern)

WHAT ARE CLIMERICKS?

 

CLIMERICKS (CLImate emergency LIMERICKS) - If you’re not sure what constitutes a Limerick, Wikipedia has an excellent description that will enable you understand what this invitation is about.

 

No-one, in 2023, can deny we are experiencing extreme weather in many, many places.

 

There are at least 70 scientific disciplines and a similar number of respected National scientific institutes (such as the Royal Society and comparable bodies in other countries) that believe, from solid evidence, the pace of climate change is way faster than has ever happened in thousands of years of history. Those very responsible scientists and those institutions are clear that the present temperature rises causing these extremes and the related climate emergency are human induced.

 

Since there is such a consensus among so many respected institutions and scientists of so many faculties, it is near-unbelievable that anyone or any organisation is prepared to deny these trends. That smacks of denialism, blindness, vested interest, greed for the profits which still flow from the fossil-fuel based industries, disinformation and outright lies. This sinister activity is, terrifyingly, funded by huge investment from the right of the political spectrum. Responsible people who have a more visionary understanding cannot muster anything like the funding base for deniers and delayers of the need for urgent action and, in order to wake the population at large to the catastrophe which faces the world, some engage in protest which is sometimes disruptive and unpopular to those inconvenienced by it. Politicians in many countries, hoping to gain favour of the general public, are passing legislation to prevent legitimate peaceful protest. This at a time of unprecedented existential crisis and with the hideous connivance of right-wing media.

 

So is there a method which can massively raise awareness to the impending crisis, (which is a crisis of TODAY and not a future crisis, and by which time today’s power-brokers, deniers and delayers will no longer hold the power they do today)? Long-term targets for ‘Net Zero’ or other CO₂ diminution are all fixed too far in the future, too late to be of serious help.

 

If you are concerned about this impending catastrophe which will make life increasingly difficult for everybody and every creature, you may well wonder what YOU can do. Well, here’s something very simple. Here’s an invitation to join CLIMERICKS.

 

CLIMERICKS have been devised to give voice to anyone concerned about the climate calamity we face. Here’s What to do.

 

1 Call up the Eco-verses hime page where you will find a growing collection of CLIMERICKS. You will find it at http://Eco-verses.blogspot.com

 

2 call up at your favourite reliable NEWS Site and/or a reliable community website for your own home community

 

3 Look around the news site to see if there are any headlines about CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL, DELAY or the wilful obstuction of Climate change mitigation targets.

 

4 Look Round the Eco-verses/CLIMERICKS site to see if there is already a CLIMERICK that make that form of delay or denial a nonsense.

 

5 Either post that CLIMERICK as OR EVEN BETTER WRITE YOUR OWN and post it as widely as you can (If writing your own try and make them amusing but telling. Try not to be rude but make your verse as compelling as you possibly can). The CLIMERICK site has a growing collection of examples for you to model your writing on: you may get new ideas from there too! If you can inject hope into your CLIMERICK too, that will be brilliant. 

 

6 Invite those you know who want to show their support for early and wide-ranging climate chaos prevention to share your chosen or written CLIMERICK.

 

7 Send your chosen CLIMERICK to your MP, Local Councillors, Radio Stations and Any Civil Service department having input into Climate Change catastrophe politics. Send hard copies if you can afford it and Emails if you need to keep your costs of joining in, low. If you know how, overprint your CLIMERICK on a pertinent image and post it to whichever CLIMERICKS site you operate on. Let’s engulf all places where power is exercised with CLIMERICKS

 

8 JUST POSSIBLY, CLIMERICKS MIGHT BECOME AN ACTIVITY HUB FOR ALL THOSE WHO DON’T QUITE KNOW HOW THEY SHOULD BE MAKING A CONTRIBUTION TO THE VITAL CLIMATE EMERGENCY DEBATES.

9. Decorations for a Christmas tree at Christmas Tree festivals or at end of school term concerts. Explore this idea HERE

 

THINK ON THIS: CLIMERICKS could become a place to express concern for 

 

ALL THOSE who care about the future of the planet and want urgent action, particularly -

 

·      Young people and especially any school or college Climate Advocates:

·      Mums to be and their partners:

·      All parents who care for their children’s future (and their own):

·      People in places threatened by and experiencing the fallout of wildfires, floods, tornadoes, unseasonal deep snow and other extreme weather:

·      Family members who have care of disabled, old and frail relations:

·      Anyone fearful for the planet’s future:

·      Anyone who cares about the impact of the Climate catastrophe on low income people:

·      Anyone who cares about the impact of the Climate catastrophe on those who inhabit low-lying lands:

·      Anyone frustrated by the inaction of politicians:

·      Anyone who assents to the Pope’s encyclical ‘Laudato Si’ and wants to take action prompted by it:

·      Any members of the hero organisation ‘Extinction Rebellion’ and similar organisations in other countries who want to supplement their existing brave protests:

·      People of faith who feel it is their call to be a steward of our beautiful planet:

 

Anyone who wants to join a life-saving initiative for a healthy planet -SOON.

To see all CLIMERICKs posted to this blog so far, go to the Home page via your browser’s button. (more to come)

Here’s a sample of using a letter to an MP

SAMPLE LETTER TO MP using a CLIMERICK

Home address

      Date

 

Lucy Fraser MP.

 

As one of your constituents,

I wish to register my deep concern 

that your party leader has 

blatantly reneged on

any sense of being

concerned about the present

human induced 

Climate Catastrophe.

 

In order to help me to 

understand how you 

stand as my MP, I would like

to know your 

reaction to the following CLIMERICK 

(CLIMate concern limERICK).

 

Four brave people scaled wall and roof

to remind the PM of this truth:

Selling oil and gas stakes

Irredeemably breaks

His green promise: those stakes - damning proof.

 

Thank you,

Trevor Thorn

CLIMERICK - A Glacier Cries

Shepard Glacier in Glacier National Park, Montana.,

first in 1913, top, and then in 2005, 

reveal the dramatic change 

as the glacier has all but disappeared.  

 A glacier cries ‘Not more sun!’

‘I’m sorry, I’m going to run

with gallons of water

when really I oughter

be building up ice by the tonne’.

(Glaciers are melting at enormous speed. This is leading to sea-level rise, failure of hydro- electric schemes, which rely on inland glaciers, where there is insufficient power to turn turbines and massive risk to polar wildernesses)

CLIMERICK: The Moa, the Mammoth, The Dodo, (#SpeciesLoss)

Pixabay free images - Dodo

The Moa, the Mammoth, The Dodo,

Were snuffed out by us long ago.

The hunting goes on,

so soon will be gone,

the Tigers, the Lions and the Rhino.

(Nearly 100 species are classified ’Vulnerable’ in the World Wildlife Directory available on line.)

CLIMERICK - Said the moon, ‘My planet’s too warm,

 Here’s today’s CLIMERICK (CLImateMERICK concern)

Pixabay free image

 

Said the moon, ‘My planet’s too warm,

and it’s clear that it’s coming to harm:

if I could, I would plead

all world leaders would heed

the stats that should cause huge alarm’.

If you want a display version, click on the image below

(New Scientist 15^th July 2023 article ‘A Week of Record Breaking Heat’ and the madness of granting new oil and gas  licences.) prompted this CLIMERICK)

 IF YOU’RE CONCERNED ABOUT CLIMATE CHAOS - WHY NOT SEND A COPY OF THIS TO YOUR MP/SENATOR and ask for their observations.

 

You’ll find more CLIMERICKS (Formerly Eco-Limericks) at https://eco-verses.blogspot.com/

CLIMERICK - A New Name for Eco-Limericks

 This is a CLIMERICK Please share with anyone who has concern about climate change 

When there’s extreme weather on screen
Do you think ‘This is just a bad dream’
Or do you believe
We should all start to grieve
For our world, if we don’t NOW go green.
(Extreme and deadly weather events are undoubtedly cause by continued use of fossil fuel. Responsible scientists from many disciplines are crystal clear on this link)