CO2 is essential for life,
So why does it cause so much strife?
Fossil fuels cause excess
Which can sure make a mess
Of humans, the Earth and wildlife.
(Whilst CO2 with sunlight and water is transformed into living matter through photosynthesis and then leaves Oxygen in its wake, an excess of CO2 acts like a global, uncontrollable greenhouse)
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STARTING TODAY - A CLIMERICK EVERY DAY THROUGHOUT COP28 - HERE’s TODAY'S
Two versions (the one below, a CLIMERICK)
discarded before I’ve been worn;
bought as a ‘just maybe’,
when received, deemed unshapely,
I’m landfill - not dirty nor torn.
(Shamefully, under 1% of textiles are recycled or re-used!).
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That Earth needs to get out of danger.
Watch! Gas and oil clans
hope to derail all plans
Said a glacier “This warming’s not nice,
“And it comes at a terrible price:
“While the wildfires do kindle,
“My kind and I dwindle
”Soon you will be be fresh out of ice!”
(Switzerland's glaciers have lost a further 4% of their volume this year - the second biggest loss ever - after last year's record melt of 6%.
The statistics come in the annual report of the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network (Glamos), whose team of researchers have been monitoring 176 of Switzerland's 1,400 glaciers for years. BBC Science report 29.09.23)
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A most “Inconvenient Truth”!
While our treatment of Earth is uncouth,
The fruits of neglect
And the climate we’ve wrecked
Are things that we’ll leave to its youth!
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EARTHSHOT
A generous monetary prize
Can encourage ideas to arise
That will help mitigate
The earth-warming rate,
thus heightening our hope to survive.
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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.
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(This is an invitation - no, a plea, to concerned teenagers to make MPs aware they will soon be or already are voter(s).
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Let Climericks be a new tool,
To challenge deniers and fools
Who say ‘Climate’s not changed’
Could it be they’re deranged?
Let these verses tell truth - that’s so cool!
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In return for a funeral wreath,
Shows little of merit
For our kids to inherit,
It’s more like a kick in the teeth!
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For fossil fuels are a lost cause
Causing deaths - how obscene
(The death toll rises with every extreme weather event - yet there are still thousands who are so blind they won’t see the link with human induced climate change - dinosaurs!)
