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Fatuous Beyond Absurdity
by Odin odin@aflx.com
Last edited: Monday, July 24, 2023
Posted: Monday, July 24, 2023



     
The 2023 UN Climate Change Conference will convene from 30 November to 12 December 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). It will comprise: the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28); the fifth meeting of the COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 5);
As the UN Climate Summit readies its debates, one wonders how much crazier or absurd greed and denial might become, rendering many simple people the victims. (Image LiHongjiun)


 

Fatuous Beyond Absurdity

 

Fatuous minds will once again

Promulgate denial in the halls of the UN

As a near-pathological love for smiling and joking

Through the planet's crisis of wind, heat and flood

Runs the clock down to the unfinished line.

 

Yet, for the country family

With smarts borne out of experience,

One might overhear…

 

“Prime colors are a-fadin’
On our special painted flats.
City and country abodes alike
Tastin’ hell about now.

“Gotta prop’em up
Blistering wind and heat
Seems to be lovin’ it
Shakin’ and scorchin’ ignorance about,
Big time.

“They say,
Comin’ soon,
Everywhere just plain desert,
Silent and supreme, they say,
With ancient skies again,
Planets and stars a-sparkle once more,
Patiently watchin’ wind and water disappear.

“But for now, Martha,
Better hold down that apple tree,
It’s gettin’ crazy-like,
Apples flyin’ every which way.

“Who says I’m yellin’?
Just holdin’ tight the hen house
Can’t save the tin roof though,
Chickens losin’ feathers,
Gonna be bald soon,
Roosters ain’t gonna like that.

“Hell of a wrath, you know, Martha?
Maybe tryin’ to tell us somethin’,
Ya think?

“Feels like everythin’s
About to blow away.
You hear me Martha?

“You there?

“I’m yellin now, Martha, damn it,
Tell me you’re there!

Tell me!
.#$%&



 



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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on July 26, 2023
Love the folksy language, but I doubt any kind of wind will pluck a chicken. The 1930s dust bowl may come again when the Midwestern aquifer is entirely dry. Same thing in California. More likely everything just drying up from lack of water for irrigation. And freezes that will come down every year into Mexico and kill all the monarchs wintering there along with lots of tropical crops we depend upon, some grown in the US but in peril now. Along with countless insects, birds and animals, fish in the sea. Our food in the future may be just manufactured, because there is no way of providing it any other way.

As long as the Middle East has a grip on fossil fuel production pricing, the idiots will prevail until it's too late. They already live in a desert, have ample wind and solar power, as well as desalianation plants available for their water. Many will buy whatever they need to survive their high lifestyles. While billionaires elsewhere may find it very hard, even with money, to survive very long after all of the simple people on the land are gone.

Too much rhetoric into little action too long.

Ron


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