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Monday, 25 August 2025

CLIMERICK: Fossil Fuels! O So Dangerous and Dirty

                                     

The image was AI generated, (from Pixabay free images)

but the CLIMERICK comes from the heart

 

Fossil fuels! O so dangerous and dirty,

need be axed by around twenty-thirty,

if the planet’s to live

and its creatures all breathe-

in air, fresh, life-giving and healthy.


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

 

Sunday, 24 August 2025

CLIMERICK: Consider How Dangerous Are...

 


This gyre may feature cans, as well,

but it’s the one-trip plastic that is the more pernicious.

Consider how dangerous are,

the fizzy drinks peddled afar:


their plastics pollute


their sweeteners recruit


more obese; and their water use, scars.


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

Wednesday, 20 August 2025

CLIMERICK: Now Lis’n Up You Politicians

It’s an ongoing and critical theme!

 


Now lis’n up you politicians,

we know that you can’t be magicians.

But hear those who tell,

that we’ll all go to hell

lest you stop coal and oil-based emissions.


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

 

Monday, 18 August 2025

CLIMERICK: On Failure of the Proposed Global Treaty to Cut Plastic Pollution

My response to the recent news that powerful petrochemical states opposed a global treaty to cut plastic pollution aimed at meaningfully reducing the harms to human health and the environment.



Disgusting! Disgraceful! It grates

that greedy petrochemical states,


should block the reduction 


of plastics production,


for profit for them and their mates.


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

Saturday, 9 August 2025

CLIMERICK Mums and Dads, Now Let’s Talk it Through

We’ve been away from CLIMERICKS for too long! So now let’s resume the collection of 'Climate Wisdom in five lines’

Pixabay free image

Mums and dads, now let’s talk it through.

What is it that you want to do

to keep your child living

with air that is giving

it life, and not gasps you’ll all rue.