This is Serious

What do you know about the ways in which people access news about climate change?

How do you attempt to locate the truth?

Perhaps you have been looking at an atlas. 

Perhaps you have been looking at wildfires.

Perhaps you have been looking at poetry.

 

A burning Taiga is not right.

Who now knows the planet's plight?

Why must forests often die

To name our fears 'prosperity'?

From the warming deeps and skies,

Burn the fires of greedy lies,

Formed on winds while life expires

Through fossil fuels, disease and fires.

In powerful nature, dangers start.

Extreme events rip lives apart,

As muddied nations feel defeat

Even as the flood goes in retreat.

Let us clamour to remain

Outside the furnace to sustain

A gentle world within our grasp 

Or die with our last, heated gasp.

 

While your car spewed out its sneers,

And warmed the air for a thousand years,

Did you smile and feel quite free

As your actions also warmed the sea?

 

The world already burns in fright.

Who killed the forests overnight?

Now water vapour climbs the sky.

Dare to know and find out why.

 

What do you know about the truth of climate change, and why that truth has been ignored by governments, including local governments, for far too long?

What do you know about corruption in relation to cars and roads and transport more generally?

What do you know about the history of misinformation about climate change, including deliberate and widespread disinformation?

What do you know about the ongoing situation?

How are you attempting to address that situation?