CLIMERICK:It’s a Nonsense that ‘Wealth trickles down’ by Trevor Thorn

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

This Climerick lies at the heart of the issues that face the world as it heads towards more and more challenges to curb climate change

 

It’s a nonsense that ‘Wealth trickles down’.

That’s a mantra we need to disown:

for wealth ever sticks

in the hands of the rich

who want more and more wealth of their own.

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CLIMERICKS: With Elections a Near World-wide Theme by Trevor Thorn

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

It HAS to be said!

With elections a near world-wide theme

It’s the long-view that needs to be seen.

Fossil fuels MUST be dumped

and these words widely trump’ed

‘ALL power needs converting to green!'

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CLIMERICK: A Bumblebee Searching for Pollen by Trevor Thorn

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

 

A bumblebee searching for pollen

 

buzzed angrily 'Z-z-z-zodem’:

on every side

 

there’s nicotinide.

For us bees, a life and death problem.’

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CLIMERICK: Schools of Seals That Bask on The Sand by Trevor Thorn

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

I’m back to the Island of Lindisfarne for today’s Climerick. After the nursery time of year for the colonies of seals further out in the North Sea and when the tide is low, groups seals congregate on the sandbanks between Lindisfarne and the mainland of Northumbria. Whilst St Cuthbert’s island is vulnerable to rising sea levels, those sandbanks are, by definition, even more threatened. Today’s Climerick looks to a bleak future for the sandbanks - and possibly for the seals too.

Schools of seals that bask on the sand,

sing songs we can’t understand

if ice-melt heightens tides

those sands will subside.

midst laments for once song-crested strands.

 

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CLIMERICK: This Islet Calls Out for Its Life by Trevor Thorn

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

Another CLIMERICK warning of the outlook for this Heritage and Holy place

The Islet Cries Out For Its Life 

 

The islet cries out for its life,

Pilgrim, see that I’m on a knife-

Edge of existence,

Less massive resistance

To fossil fuels grows to be rife

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CLIMERICK: A Climerick for Sunak - You Claim To Have Policies Bold:

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

A Climerick for Sunak - You Claim To Have Policies Bold:

 

You claim to have policies bold:

They make many people go cold

With their absence of green,

For the young, they’re obscene

As they mean they might not grow old.

 

On Monday 13^th May 2024, Sunak argued his ‘bold ideas’ can create a more secure future for Britons (Source BBC politics reporting). These claims persist as we in the UK near Election Day

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CLIMERICK :Fast Fashion That’s Sold To Us Cheap

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

Fast fashion that’s sold to us cheap

Should really prevent us from sleep

For its corporates don’t care

They’re a total nightmare

With throw-aways piled high and steep.

 

See articles in The Guardian and on the BBC’s Climate webpage.

The waste piles of discarded fabric and unsold clothes of Shein are so large they can be seen from space!

Castoffs to catwalk: fashion show shines light on vast Chile clothes dump visible from space. The Guardian 08 May 2024

And

 

What France's crackdown on Shein and Temu means for global ultra-fast fashion. BBC 20 March 2024

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CLIMERICKS: There Once Were Some People on Earth by Susan Sanderson (ACW)

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

There once were some people on earth
Who mined and created a dearth
Of coal, oil and gas
Increasing CO₂'s mass
It is not a matter for mirth

 

Big banks are complicit in this
They hope that their customers miss
The way they invest
That is not for the best
But ignorance here is not bliss

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CLIMERICKS: You Voters Who Go to The Polls by Susan Sanderson (ACW)

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

You voters who go to the polls

 

Do not drive there in a Rolls

It’s better to walk,

Use pencil or chalk,

And elect an MP with good goals.

 

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'The Letter’: A film showing an outworking of 'Laudato Si’ The Pope’s Leadership Encyclical on Climate Change & CLIMERICK

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

We were meeting with a local group of  members of The Iona Community, a dispersed community of people concerned about Justice and Peace issues. One of the group recommended that we should watch 'The Letter' which is a You Tube Original looking at the issues of Climate change through the lens of five representatives of groups of people profoundly affected by the changes which are already happening. For anyone sharing these concerns this is well worth the hour and a half it takes to watch - and I thought it appropriate on this website to frame this invitation in a Climerick!

If you want our sick world to get better,

Take an hour or so watching The Letter.

It’s there on You Tube

And it’s written for YOU,

From The Pope: a true Eco-trendsetter.

The film ‘The Letter’ can be accessed at

https://youtu.be/Rps9bs85BII?si=N1L0dTCwSq2brGyB

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CLIMERICKS: If You’re Part of The Great Band of Cleaners

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

This is one of a short series of appeals to various trade and professional groups to emphasise the point that helping to save our planet is EVERYONES’ responsibility

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If you’re part of the great band of cleaners 

who sometimes feel you are ‘not-seeners’,

this is time to break-out

and raise up a shout,

‘Clear the mess that’s been made by ‘No-Greeners’’.

 

How to do that’s not easy to know,

so, while you are out on the go,

place a climerick where

lots of people might stare

which says ‘Turn off the dirty fuel flow.’

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CLIMERICKS: City Guilds-people You Can Be Heroes by Trevor Thorn

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

This is one of a short series of appeals to various trade and professional groups to emphasise the point that helping to save our planet is EVERYONES’ responsibility. Today’s profession is chosen especially as there is a pop-up display of Climericks at St Mary’s Fen Ditton during Cambridge (UK) May Bumps Week. It may just be that some visitors to the exhibition will have ambitions to belong to a City of London Guild. If that is you - Then please Lis’n Up!

City guilds-people you can be heroes

By helping us get to net zero.

Please focus your wealth

On building Earth’s health,

And not be latter-day Neros.

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CLIMERICKS: Influencers Who Would Survive,

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

This is one of a short series of appeals to various trade and professional groups to emphasise the point that helping to save our planet is EVERYONES’ responsibility.

 

Influencers who would survive,

need to help keep their fandoms alive,

by telling them straight

fossil fuels must abate:

then on energy clean you’ll all thrive.

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CLIMERICKS: Fund Managers, You’ve a Key Rôle by Trevor Thorn

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

This is one of a short series of appeals to various trade and professional groups to emphasise the point that helping to save our planet is EVERYONES’ responsibility. Today’s profession is chosen especially as there is a pop-up display of Climericks at St Mary’s Fen Ditton during Cambridge (UK) May Bumps Week. It may just be that some visitors to the exhibition will have ambitions to work as Fund Managers. If that is you - Then please Lis’n Up!

Fund Managers, you’ve a key rôle

In killing gas, oil and coal,

Just don’t trade in their shares,

They’re the stuff of nightmares,

Choose the options that don’t take such toll.

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CLIMERICKS: Gynaecologists As You Deliver by Trevor Thorn

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels

This is one of a short series of Climericks appealing to various trade and professional groups to emphasise the point that helping to save our planet is EVERYONES’ responsibility.

Gynaecologists as you deliver

new lives, do you also consider

will these children survive

if the fossil fuel drive’s

not aborted before they grow bigger.

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CLIMERICK: If You’re Feeling Lonely or Down by Trevor Thorn

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

If you’re feeling lonely or down,

Then seek out the nature-in-town.

Then add to its stock.

For a small window box

Can ease your and the planet’s meltdown.

 

In an Observer report on 19.05.24, Andrea Michelli, Professor of early intervention in mental health, Kings College London says ‘People are 28%less likely to feel lonely when they are in an environment that includes natural features.

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CLIMERICK: Today’s Modern Households Have Seen by Kathryn Price (ACW member)

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St Cuthbert’s Island, off Lindisfarne, Northumbria.

An islet under threat from rising sea levels. The islet

has been adopted by Eco-Verses as

a symbol of the global risk to low-lying places.

Would this appeal to you as one of your contributions to alleviating Climate change? Certainly worth thinking about!

Today's modern households have seen a

surfeit of chemical cleaner.

Old-style lemon and salt

might help call a halt

to pollution - and be a bit greener. 

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