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Tuesday, 9 July 2024

CLIMERICK: 'We Fossils Do Not Kindly Take' by Trevor Thorn

  KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN



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 fossils do not kindly take

the way that you frequently break

us up into bits

to be fuel that is s**t.

Leave us be, and go green, for Your sakes


In July 2009, The Smithsonian Magazine ran a fascinating illustrated article about an Illinois Coal mining operation where there is evidence of a whole carboniferous forest in the roof of the mine. This article is still available (July 2024) and can be accessed at

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worlds-largest-fossil-wilderness-30745943/ 


Here’s a picture of the mine



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


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