Earth, Victim
It was reported in the ‘70s
That we had enough nukes to
Melt the crust off planet
Earth
And in 2016 campaigning in the USA
An uninformed remark
Was made: Why do we make nukes
If we don’t intend
To use them?
We’ve learned how to recycle
Trash and plastic
We can even scrub the skies
To good—
Saving—
Effect
Against ages of waste and disposal
From age-old stability of the
Earth itself,
Our efforts are nascent
Yet
We have humanity in two minds:
One mind mutters, doesn’t matter; I’ll
Be rich and dead and gone
By then
The other mind considers the catastrophe
And asks what might I do
How might I repair
My tongue, my thought, my profit
So that
There’s an Earth-home
In which to have all good
Meanwhile the
Earth itself
Blows out hurricanes our
Way because
It’s losing breath
And also torrents of rain
Because it
Weeps
Earth bleeds through the crust:
We can rise to help everything that’s wounded
Or
We can fall
The way the planet’s falling
Failing
Now
C L Couch
TYSON: There are people who have cultural, political, religious economic philosophies that they then invoke when they want to cherry pick one scientific result or another. You can find a scientific paper that says practically anything and the press, which I count you as part of, will sometimes find a single paper and say “Here’s a new truth.” But an emergent scientific truth, for it to become an objective truth, a truth that is true whether or not you believe in it, it requires more than one scientific paper. It requires a whole system of people’s research all leaning in the same direction, all pointing to the same consequences. That’s what we have with climate change as induced by human conduct. This is a known correspondence. If you want to find the 3 percent of the papers or the 1 percent of the papers that conflicted with this and build policy on that, that is simply irresponsible. How else do you establish a scientific truth if not by looking at the consensus of scientific experiments and scientific observations. Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, signed into law in 1963–a year when he had important things to be thinking about–he signed into law the National Academy of Sciences. Because he knew that science mattered and should matter in governance.
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