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

 KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN

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

.KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN

CONVERSATIONS ALIVE with... 

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 - 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.)

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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.)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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.

 

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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)

White Sails

Image from ‘The Earth Project’ site

White Sails 

My heart leaps with joy

to see great white sails

welcoming their friend,

a strong and steady breeze.

These are today’s

worthy successors

to the multitude of windmills

we gradually discarded

in favour of the efficiency

of burn-away fossil fuels.

Jettisoning them, 

we sent grain further,

consumed yet more fuel ,

and wrapped regimented loaves

in lethal plastic.

So welcome to these gentle giants

with their swirling symmetry,

as they gracefully draw afresh

from the ever-present air

its generous bounty

of cleanly harvested energy.

© Trevor Thorn