npm 8, 9, 10: three emails

 

I'm falling behind and catching up all at the same time suddenly, now that Spring Break has finally sprung--but isn't that also how we are managing the climate crisis?  Daily falling behind when we think about our 2030 deadline, but also catching up to the truth and the urgency. Whether it's because we're paying attention to the IPCC or getting caught in a Georgia tornado, we just can't deny it any longer.  And part of the catching up, says Mary Ann Hitt in "Beyond Coal," is knowing that "State and local decisions move the needle."   Go Maryland!  Go League of Conservation Voters!

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Is it poetry?  Feels like it to me!  Thanks to  Alice and Kim and Kristyn, three more climate feminists who are getting it done, along with Shelly, Pamela, Nancy, Susan, Mary, Delores, Cheryl, Katie, Jill, Sarah, women members of the MD General Assembly who sponsored this bill.

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My project for NPM 2022:

 

This month I'm making "human stories to move human beings.  Human stories are more powerful for inciting action than counting carbon or detailing melting glaciers." (Favianna Rodriguez, from her essay "Harnessing Cultural Power," in ALL WE CAN SAVE.)

 

Read previous poems in the series here:

1 A tribute to those who keep writing poetry in the face of climate calamity

2 Gratitude for those who take the time to fix things

3 A musical listing of not nearly all the women featured in this book

4 An observation of those considering climate-friendly human habitats

 

5 A comparison of human attempts to control water & fire with beaver wisdom

6 A reading of the intro to THE OVERSTORY: listening to trees

7 A celebration of how young children still understand that they are animals on the planet