Today’s poem is a mixture of quotation, paraphrase, & commentary on something one inactivist denier actually said. Presumably, with a straight face. A straight cold callous inhuman face.
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wet feet
should the West Antarctic Ice Sheet actually do
what the scientists threaten — & slip off into the sea
— is it really be the end-of-the-world calamity they contend
even if the sea rose 6 metres — it would only reclaim
about 42,000 square kilometres of coastline
where roughly about 400 million people currently live
that sounds quite a lot of people — but hardly
all humanity — less than 6% of world population
which is to say — 94% of us need not fear — inundation
after all — it’s simply an equivalent number of people
to the entire population of the US & UK — combined
a mere drop in the ocean — you might wryly remark
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Day 30 — TIL i learnt we’re bombing the ocean
hot water
year after year
we’re setting
ocean heat records
last year alone
they absorbed
eight Hiroshima
atomic bombs
detonating
every second
of every day
— nearly seven
hundred
thousand
every day
— five million
a week
— a Quarter.
Of a. Billion.
Bomb’s. Worth.
Every. Year.
* 480 a minute / 28 800 an hour / 691 200 a day / 4 838 400 a week / 251 596 800 a year
gareth roi poet boi 