Juxtaposition (This is not a poem)

Flashback to 2021
Cop Out at Cop26
Coal will be phased down but not phased out
Down But Not Out

Semantic Antics

This late amendment was tabled by the USA, China and India but India took most of the flak.

India’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions are far lower than USA or China.

Canada’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions are higher than USA or China

But this is not a competition anyone wants to win.

Juxtaposition
This is not a poem.

November 12
Toxic air enveloped Delhi
making it the second most polluted city in the world.
According to 2020 average data
Hotan, China is the worst
Delhi is the 10th
so Delhi was having a bad day
50 percent of the pollution comes from vehicles.
If you go down the list
you have to get past the 200th most polluted city
to get out of India and China.

Juxtaposition
This is not a poem

The prosperity of the west was built on fossil fuels.

Carbon dioxide emissions are a subset of pollution

Pollution covers a multitude.

Imagine the human experiment as a black box emitting carbon dioxide. Reducing those emissions requires a collective approach. Is the human experiment capable of a collective approach. So far not so much.

Juxtaposition
This is not a poem

four years after the Great Smog of London
the Clean Air Act of 1956
prohibited the burning of coal in homes
change can happen

juxtaposition
we are beside ourselves

we have been burning fossil fuel
to stay warm
since the cave
old habits die hard

we need speed bumps not fist bumps
we need idealism and pragmatism
we need strategy

juxtaposition
this is not a poem

Sherry over at earthweal asks:

For your challenge: Express your thoughts and feelings about how humankind has brought Mother Earth to this critical point in time, and what you think and feel about where we go from here

This is a kind of rambling response.

Also taking part in Open Link over at dverse.