it's 3:23 in the morning and I'm awake
"it's 3:23 in the morning
and I'm awake because
my great great grandchildren
won't let me sleep
my great great grandchildren
ask me in dreams
what did you do while the planet was plundered?
what did you do when the earth was unravelling?
surely you did something while the seasons started unravelling"
These are the opening lines to hieroglyphic stairway, a poem from Drew Dellinger in his collection love letter to the milky way, an inspiring and soul-soothing book of poems. http://www.drewdellinger.org/pages/products/43/love-letter-to-the-milky-way
How can poetry help with the fight to save the planet? Each vocation is going to play a role in the solving the climate crisis. Scientists will give us the guard rails which we must stay within to keep this planet hospitible to human civilization. Engineers will design the technologies to improve energy efficiency, create green energy and monitor climate systems. The social scientists will help us with our psyches, social connections, policy creation and economic constructs as we transition to a more sustainable way of living. And finally spiritual leaders and artists such as dancers, musicians and poets will give humanity carbon-free energy to soothe our spirits at this time of massive change.
Two years ago today Al Gore and The Climate Project trained 250 Canadians to give presentations on climate change in Montreal QUE. To all my climate project friends, I am thinking of you today.