CO2 is essential for life,
So why does it cause so much strife?
Fossil fuels cause excess
Which can sure make a mess
Of humans, the Earth and wildlife.
(Whilst CO2 with sunlight and water is transformed into living matter through photosynthesis and then leaves Oxygen in its wake, an excess of CO2 acts like a global, uncontrollable greenhouse)
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STARTING TODAY - A CLIMERICK EVERY DAY THROUGHOUT COP28 - HERE’s TODAY'S
Two versions (the one below, a CLIMERICK)
discarded before I’ve been worn;
bought as a ‘just maybe’,
when received, deemed unshapely,
I’m landfill - not dirty nor torn.
(Shamefully, under 1% of textiles are recycled or re-used!).
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That Earth needs to get out of danger.
Watch! Gas and oil clans
hope to derail all plans
Said a glacier “This warming’s not nice,
“And it comes at a terrible price:
“While the wildfires do kindle,
“My kind and I dwindle
”Soon you will be be fresh out of ice!”
(Switzerland's glaciers have lost a further 4% of their volume this year - the second biggest loss ever - after last year's record melt of 6%.
The statistics come in the annual report of the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network (Glamos), whose team of researchers have been monitoring 176 of Switzerland's 1,400 glaciers for years. BBC Science report 29.09.23)
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A most “Inconvenient Truth”!
While our treatment of Earth is uncouth,
The fruits of neglect
And the climate we’ve wrecked
Are things that we’ll leave to its youth!
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EARTHSHOT
A generous monetary prize
Can encourage ideas to arise
That will help mitigate
The earth-warming rate,
thus heightening our hope to survive.
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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 aware they will soon be or already are voter(s).
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Let Climericks be a new tool,
To challenge deniers and fools
Who say ‘Climate’s not changed’
Could it be they’re deranged?
Let these verses tell truth - that’s so cool!
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In return for a funeral wreath,
Shows little of merit
For our kids to inherit,
It’s more like a kick in the teeth!
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For fossil fuels are a lost cause
Causing deaths - how obscene
(The death toll rises with every extreme weather event - yet there are still thousands who are so blind they won’t see the link with human induced climate change - dinosaurs!)
Here’s an idea for using a Christmas Climerick (CLimate Change LIMERICK - see below *). If you want to bring the Climate Change conversation into your Christmas celebrations, this just might do it.
And if you are having a Christmas celebratory meal other than at home, where you could use the TABLEMAT version above, you can access the jpeg file HERE
If you can organise more than one use, then why not laminate copies: they should last at least three outings.
If you simply want to copy the words - here they are
At Christmastide, let’s ALL be clear
as citizens we can help steer
our leaders to stop
all fossil fuel plots!
A gift that will last earth for years.
And if we can press our leaders to take the issue of Climate Chaos seriously, then we will truly have contributed to a lasting gift to our wonderful planet. So let’s go for it!
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goes unheeded by many, through choice;
and with prophets arrested
our leaders attested
Their shocking pro-fossil-fuel ploys.
Mid-October 2023 and Greta Thunberg is arrested for joining a Climate change protest in London.
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It seems there is no Planet B
To offer new air, land and sea,
So with no Terra Nova
To tide our race over,
It’s cherish or perish, by Gee!
Scores of sciences signal the same,
Not one science!
As many proclaim.
Earth NOW needs net zero
Not fossil fuel Neros
Who deny this, with false claims inane.
(It feels possible that expressions such as ‘following the science’ devalue the urgency of a deep climate concern by suggesting there is just one single science implying the danger we are in, whereas a multiplicity of scientific disciplines all point clearly in the same direction – we are at serious risk. Wikipedia’s entry of ‘Climatology’ shows a range of the sciences involved)
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Try hard not to order more clothes
than you need, for the excess are those
filling landfill and wasting
resources, and making
such clothing boost climate-change growth.
(Fewer than 1% of textiles are recycled or re-used!).
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during the singing of Do You Hear The People Sing?
Picture Credit Just Stop Oil/ PA Wire
Just Stop Oil invaded Les Mis,
Shame the audience got in a tizz!
‘Do you Hear People sing’
Now calls every regime
You must make climate change urgent biz?
(BBC London reported on 5th October 2023
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Just Stop Oil said four people had locked themselves to the stage at the Sondheim Theatre.
"Valjean steals bread to feed a starving child. How long before we are all forced to steal?" it added. Jean Valjean is the protagonist in Les Miserables.
The post continued: "The fossil fuel show can't go on.”)
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Private jets are an utter disgrace,
They pollute at a hideous pace:
It’s about fourteen times
That of long-haul airlines:
They should be taxed - and paid with good grace!
(Private jets are awful for the climate. It’s time to tax the rich who fly in them
Ed Markey in The Guardian. August 10, 2023)
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Credit: Pixabay free image
An old clothes post cries out in pain,
‘Please give me a line once again,
So with wind and sun’s aid,
Several watts we can save
And your clothes - lovely freshness will gain.’
(Hanging clothes to dry in the Air rather than in a tumble dryer can make a big dent in CO2 emissions (BBC Smart Guide to Climate Change ))
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When young people take countries to court,
They must have spent long hours in thought,
As to how they might drive
Politicians to strive
For a safe world that’s not climate-fraught.
(BBC reports on 28.09.23 six young Portuguese people have filed a lawsuit against 32 governments, including all EU member states, the UK, Norway, Russia, Switzerland and Turkey. They accuse the countries of insufficient action over climate change and failing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions enough to hit the Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5C.)
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The Equinor bosses wear smirks
as they plan with Ithaca, works
that will NOT keep us safe
in the energy stakes
but endanger all Earth for their perks.
(On 27th September 2023 it was announced that drilling would commence at the Rosebank site, North West of Shetland, which is jointly owned by Norwegian Energy giant Equinor and British Energy company Ithaca. It is claimed that this will enhance the energy security of the UK but it is claimed by protestors that much if not all of any production will be sold elsewhere and the companies will avoid huge windfall taxation as well. It would appear that the public are once more being lied to by Fossil fuel companies and their advocates)
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A PM who offers oil stakes
shows disdain for all of the sakes
of the next generations,
the hope of all nations:
what a short-sighted viewpoint to take?
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I have sent this CLIMERICK to the UK Prime Minister in the following letter. YOU could do the same to register any apprehensions you may have.
The Rt Hon R Sunak
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street,
London SW1A 2AA
Sir,
As a citizen of this country, resident in South Cambridgeshire, I wish to express my deep concern about your recent action in granting Licences for new extractions of oil and gas, by way of sending you this CLIMERICK (CLImate Concern LiMERICK) entitled ‘Short-sighted Leadership’.
A PM who offers oil stakes
shows disdain for all of the sakes
of the next generations,
the hope of all nations:
what a short-sighted viewpoint to take?
Whilst composing the CLIMERICK, I found myself wondering whether you have explained, with honesty, the impact of what you have done to your daughters, and what the likely outcome will be for them and their generation. Have you? I would like to know.
I would also like to commend that you might consider revoking those licences and move to stop the commencement of drilling in the Rosebank field. I understand that drilling will NOT improve the UK’s energy security.
For your information, I have sent a different CLIMERICK to our MP Lucy Fraser, also to register my disgust at the issuing of fossil fuel licences, and implicit abandonment of any green agenda by you and your party.
Yours faithfully,
