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Wednesday 6 March 2024

CLIMERICK: To Switzerland Our Hats We Doff by John Hobbs

Pixabay Free image - Skiers & rain


To Switzerland our hats we doff:

Snow playground of many a toff.

But as climate change bites

There’s less snow on the heights

And skiers are rather piste-off!


Prompted by a recent news item in Canada that some Swiss villages which have traditionally been ski resorts have closed their ski facilities due to lack of snow. 


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Friday 1 March 2024

CLIMERICK: You Water Down Policies Green by Margaret Beardshaw

 

Flooding free image from Pixabay

You water down policies green. 

So the flood waters surge o'er our dreams,

as the arctic ice thaws,


forests die without pause,


and our future can barely be seen.


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Thursday 29 February 2024

CLIMERICK: Reduce Your Reliance on Plastic! by John Hobbs

Plastic bottles: Free Pixabay image


 

Reduce your reliance on plastic!


Using less doesn’t have to be drastic:


Less pollution of sea,


Thence of land, you, and me,

And the benefits could be fantastic! 


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Tuesday 20 February 2024

CLIMERICK: The Climatic Warmth of Each Nation by John Hobbs



The climatic warmth of each nation

Shows increasing deterioration


.

No use to curse it,



We have to reverse it



Or join in the great immolation!



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HERE

Friday 9 February 2024

CLIMERICK: To Abrogate Policies Green

To abrogate policies green

is a U turn that’s frankly obscene:

it’s a nose cruelly thumbed

at the poor and the young;

for them killing both hopes and dreams.


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And here’s my first use of it - a click on the letter image should expand it to the size of your screen






Tuesday 6 February 2024

CLIMERICK: Though One Person's Commitment is Small by John Hobbs

 


Though One Person's commitment is small by John Hobbs (Vancouver Island)

Though one person's commitment is small

In saving the Earth for us all,

If billions try,

There's a chance we'll get by,

So GET OUT AND DO IT, Y’all!


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Tuesday 30 January 2024

CLIMERICK: Australian Students Walk Out

 Australian students walk out

Image Credit: BBC Climate News 17.09.23

Australian students walk out

To make politicians take note

Of the stress and despair

That so many share:

their sick planet syndrome‘s no joke!


BBC News 17 Sept 2023 reported

Thousands of Australian students have walked out of class to attend School Strike 4 Climate rallies, backed by a "sick note" from "climate doctors".

Signed by three prominent scientists, it concludes: "It is my recommendation that they take a sick day to protest for a sick planet."

The students called for greater climate action, as the country faces another summer with natural disasters.

Tuesday 23 January 2024

CLIMERICK: Said an islander “I hate to beef ‘ by John Hobbs


Photo Credit  Earth Org
Early victims of Climate change

Said an Islander “I Hate to Beef ‘ by John B Hobbs 

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Said an islander “I hate to beef,

“But my atoll has shrunk past belief!

“As the temperatures soar

“It de-cays more and more.

“And soon it’ll be but a reef!”


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Thursday 18 January 2024

CLIMERICK: LET'S ENCOURAGE CREATORS OF ART

 


Christian Climate Action have just posted this image of an imaginatively altered copy of the 15th Century Virgin and Child by Lippi. This was held up in the UK’s National Gallery. But the staff interrupted and the public were moved away as the CCA team started a silent prayer protest. You can read the full story on CCA’s website.

This incident is a helpful reminder of how effective art can be in helping to raise the issue of the dangers of Climate change non violently. 

With this in mind, I offer the latest Climerick (ClimateChangeLimerick) which is addressed to ALL CREATIVES and their friends and family.

LET’S ENCOURAGE CREATORS OF ART

to play a significant part,

in a visionary storm

that will make it the norm

to have climate change on every heart.


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Saturday 6 January 2024

CLIMERICK: YoungPeople all over the earth

Image Credit: Free images from Pixabay

Young people all over the earth

Need leaders who realise the worth


Of the next generations,

 

The hope of their nations,


Threatened by fossil fuel’s curse.


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