point of no return

Cherry

By Di_Hard

Fri, 15 Oct 2021
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Billionaires lobbying to avoid tax increase, while number of middle income taxpayers decreases

Government can't pay education, social care, and health workers enough so vital jobs unfilled

Fossil fuel pruducers say climate change might not be real, so no need to cut emmissions

Insufficient investment in renewable energy means shortfall as fuel needs increase

Resulting in increased coal burning which causes climate change to speed up

Floods and droughts cause crop failure, food shortages cause war

Last forests cut down for biomass and new land for crops 

More flood/drought displaced people/refugees

Refugees no longer have human rights

Our grandchildren struggle 

Families' futures stop

Mankind ends 

Why

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58982445

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Submitted by celticman on

a positve feedback loop. 

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou very much for the cherries Celticman. Have been listening to Justin Rowlatt on BBC world service about Earth's chemical history? He said (if I understood it) 445 million years ago, algae triggered a mass extincion by tipping the balance too far in oxygen's direction. Now we are doing the same, only the other way round. Which made me think with all our brains and even knowing what we are doing, we are acting like algae

 

Submitted by marandina on

A pretty bleak summation in a cleverly put together poem. I like this format.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou for reading, Paul and your comment :0) I don't feel it is a poem as has no rhythm? I was really surprised and happy to get a cherry, to be honest. Maybe will try a re write with rhythm. It could be so much bigger but that's the line limit on here for triangles :0) Just as well as I can go on for ages about this sort of thing, and don't know what I am talking about, just from listening to the radio!

Thankyou again for taking the time to comment, much appreciated :0)

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

I don't know why I missed this before my op, Di.

The climate pressures do so need to be addressed and the unpopularity of measures accepted, but two things I feel on reading what you say in verse and comment —

1) the whole realm of each of us needing to repair our relationship with our Maker and his Son, and facing our own sins and failings is primary, and wars and hatred blow up to also cause food shortages and unwillngness to share the resources we have world-wide. and

2) God has said clearly, as did Jesus Christ when on earth, that this earth will actually finish at his say-so and time when he will bring a new earth that can't go wrong and no sin there

(and also stories about 450 million years ago are likely to be poppycock as there is no evidence of the earth being so old, though it is desired to enable suggestion of evolution of life by chance which is so impossibly improbable. There is more and more evidence of that impossiblitily sicentifically and of a short itme scale for fossils and rocks.)

These things bring me peace though the folly and individual everyday selfishnesses around us can be so sad and depressing! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Hi Rhiannon :0) It is lovely to hear from you! I hope you are feeling a little bit better every day and taking care of yourself?

It is very kind of you to have given your precious time to reading and commenting on this and I feel lucky to have your views, which you put with such strength and clarity it is calming even to read them. Thankyou :0)

 

Submitted by Penny4athought on

Devastating truths and the format of dwindling the words down, like the silencing of mankind when the destruction we've caused is complete, was profoundly effective. Well deserving of the cherries. 

Penny4athought

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou so much, Penny! I am very grateful for your insightful comment:0)

 

Submitted by Kris on

 

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thankyou very much!