What folly! -More Runways to kill the planet
Rachel Reeves, listen! Growth is for fools,
if it leads to the planet’s downfall.
The Earth’s urgent need
is to swiftly impede
power-making, with foul dirty fuels
Let Florida batten down hatches:
California boost your fire watches.
Dodo Donald don’t care,
what is spewed into air
though it causes gargantuan trashes.
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A CLIMERICK for COP 29 Digitalisation Day
KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN
O COP where you digitalise,
the world needs you all to be wise,
and drive global trends
that will bring to an end
excessive resource use and lies!
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Materials Science is where
you will find a great body of care
for sustainability
at scale capability.
Financiers, Go! Invest there.
In the September 2024 issue of Materials World are articles on bringing colour to solar panels making them more attractive to architects; recycling of critical metals from spent alkaline batteries, improved recycling of solid state lithium batteries; The next generation of smart offshore windfarms; how precise measurement is vital in the race to net zero and 3D printing of natural material flooring panel (to replace steel) and more
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When next you are eating a spud,
Think! Its flowers, stalks and leaves were just crud.
But research has found
that this garbage abounds
with fibres for fashion – that’s good!
Article in The New Scientist 7th September 2024 reports on the findings by a team at Imperial College London that the fibres from the above-the-ground waste from potatos (estimated to be 150million tonnes a year) can be used as a cotton fibre substitute,with the potential of saving huge crop space and diminishing water usage.
KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN
If top level sport is your dream,
watch out! Who’s financing your team?
If they thrive upon coal,
Gas or foul diesel fuel,
‘Kick ‘em out!’. Raise a real head of steam.
BBC Climate news reported on 18.09.24
Fossil fuel companies have invested more than £4bn in sports sponsorship "in an attempt to divert attention from their role in fuelling the climate crisis and harming human health”, according to a new report.
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St Cuthbert’s Island in Northumbria (above) is by no means the only heritage site threatened by rising sea levels - in the not-far-distant future. So, if you are aware of places you love that are likely to succumb to higher tides, make a resolve to redouble your efforts to make political leaders aware of just how rapidly they need to move to prevent such unrecoverable losses. And take this thinking into your voting decision (This coming Thursday in the UK)
Too many of Earth’s lovely places
Will soon disappear without traces
Unless we can green
The energy scene
So their glory can still light our faces.
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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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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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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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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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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 13th 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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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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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
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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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Australian students walk out
Australian students walk out
To make politicians take note
Of the stress and despair
That so many share:
their sick planet syndrome‘s no joke!
BBC News 17 Sept 2023 reported
Thousands of Australian students have walked out of class to attend School Strike 4 Climate rallies, backed by a "sick note" from "climate doctors".
Signed by three prominent scientists, it concludes: "It is my recommendation that they take a sick day to protest for a sick planet."
The students called for greater climate action, as the country faces another summer with natural disasters.
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Said an islander “I hate to beef,
“But my atoll has shrunk past belief!
“As the temperatures soar
“It de-cays more and more.
“And soon it’ll be but a reef!”
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This incident is a helpful reminder of how effective art can be in helping to raise the issue of the dangers of Climate change non violently.
With this in mind, I offer the latest Climerick (ClimateChangeLimerick) which is addressed to ALL CREATIVES and their friends and family.
LET’S ENCOURAGE CREATORS OF ART
to play a significant part,
in a visionary storm
that will make it the norm
to have climate change on every heart.
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Young people all over the earth
Need leaders who realise the worth
Of the next generations,
The hope of their nations,
Threatened by fossil fuel’s curse.
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