Autumn arrives at last, unseasonably late.

Frustrated at being forced to wait,

she makes her displeasure known

in a sudden, howling rainstorm that threatens more

than the dying leaves that are her due.

But she finds herself part-thwarted in her mission.

Others have shown their anger before:

the best plum tree felled by the surprise late snow of April;

the elderberries ...

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Earth as our landlord

A notice was given

Broken agreements

Eviction is imminent

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How sadly it's come to this:

the apotheosis

of our egos' mad desires.

Now all this nightmare requires

of us to finalise

matters is to analyse

our crude methodology

and, sans apology

give the Earth one last, good kick -

yes, that ought to do the trick -

then drink to its poor health.

We've raped it of all its wealth,

we've torn it and tortured...

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Epidemiologists and public health ethicists have been grappling for some time with the near certainly of widespread disease pandemics resulting from climate change. Changes in non-human animal migration and human migration will bring extant pathogens to new populations as warming releases long dormant pathogens on the world once again. Large swaths of the population could be wiped out in an incred...

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Before the reckoning,
The water was like glass.
We would glide
Across the surface,
Staring into the deep
As naïve as a recently
Birthed Godzilla,
Never knowing what
Destruction our
Mutation might bring.

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