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.
This is a CLIMERICK (Climate Concern Limerick). You will find lots more at
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!
And you can find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE
KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN
KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN
KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN
A Churchyard:
In this Little Patch of Creation
With many churches working to promote the biodiversity in their churchyards, here is a novel way to invite people in. Further Climericks will build on this invitation.
In this little patch of Creation,
we invite you to find restoration
for your body and soul,
in this place, with its rôle -
to give peace that will last generations.
KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN
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
KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN
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
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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KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN
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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KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN
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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KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN
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
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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Photo credit BBC/Modvion
If wood can build taller than steel
It gives it a heightened appeal
For huge turbine towers
Giving yet greener power
With a low weight and cost -What a DEAL!
BBC Climate News 28.12.23 features a Swedish Company (Modvion) which is building modular wooden turbine towers for land-based constructions. Transport of the modular units is easier than moving huge steel towers, so there are many benefits to this system approach
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Pixabay free ‘demonstration’ image
As of old, a Prophetic Voice
Goes unheeded by many, through choice;
Now with prophets arrested
Our leaders attest to
Their shocking pro-fossil-fuel ploys.
Mid-October 2023 and Greta Thunberg, among others, is arrested for joining a Climate change protest in London.
On Climate Change, let us be brisk:
There’s a crisis right now on Earth’s disk!
No time for distraction,
We have to take action,
Or soon we’ll join “Species At Risk”!
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When looking for holiday joys
Look for landlords who do more than voice
credentials of green;
they are part of a meme
of low carbon hols: perfect choice!
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How dare the devilish Shell
sue Greenpeace, when Shell create hell
in oil-bearing places
kicking over the traces
of land laws where ethnic folk dwell.
Shell intend to sue Greenpeace for £1.7m damages they claim were perpretated by Greenpeace supporters boarding a ship transporting a platform to Shetland. (Source BBC Climate News 9th Novr 23).
· In a court decision reached late last year, Indigenous communities from the Wild Coast of South Africa’s Eastern Cape have attained a landmark legal victory against energy and petroleum giant Shell. To win their case, lawyers representing the Umgungundlovu, Dwesa-Cwebe, and Port Saint Johns Indigenous communities, among others, argued that because Shell failed to consult meaningfully with local communities, the company’s efforts to explore shale gas off the country’s eastern coast ignored a crucial aspect of local custom. The victory has been hailed as a major breakthrough in the effort to stem the tide of climate change. But it is also a potent example of how Wild Coast communities are using the courts to fight for the right to determine what happens in their territory and strengthening their hand in a country heavily marred by colonialism.
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