“The Time Has Come,” the Walrus Said... Maybe Not Yet for the Climate Doom

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Tuesday August 31, 2021 · 3:13 PM PDT

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Smoke from the Creek Fire billows beyond a ridge as seen from Huntington Lake on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, at Huntington Lake, Calif. (Eric Paul Zamora/The Fresno Bee via AP) — Is climate doom on our horizon?

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The following poem began as a few words in a comment I made on a DK post by Atvolunteer called All Is Lost: www.dailykos.com/… So my thanks to Atvolunteer for the inspiration. I am inspired, amused and informed every day by the posts here on DailyKos — this is a great place. Anyway, on to the poem...

“The Time Has Come,” the Walrus Said... Maybe Not Yet for the Climate Doom

We are a diverse species

In our activities.

Even as the greeds

Continue to place us

All in peril.

The rest of us

Are actively changing our ways

To travel down the path

Of survival and thrival.

And even though we've seen

The seas are boiling hot enough

To cook poor oysters and clams

We have not yet seen

Pigs that fly,

So there is hope.

And by planting carbon capturing

Trees and hemp and algae

Retrofitting solar panels on buildings old

Making aluminum batteries

To power our electric cars

Turning back from plastic

To wood and glass and ceramic

By eating less and more wisely...

This could be the time we use

Our wits and grit and

Technological talents

To stall and reverse

The rising temperatures

And get us past the climate hump

To a planet worth living on

And a people worthy of it.

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My latest book of poetry — poems written between late October of 2020 through May, 2021, is available on Amazon here: Words of Change.

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