This post is a continuation of the collection of poems 'PLANET-SAVING VERSE (not before we need it') as displayed on this blog June 15, 2024 (folio#1) and June 15, 2025 (folio#2).
previous poetic posts (Note that captions are available for poems displayed on "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" since January 2024).
(first folio): beach foam, 'clean' coal, compostables, drought, enzootic ending.
(second folio): fur-farming, invasive species, koi (invasive fish), phosphate detergents, shorebird council.
CURRENT CONTENTS (#3)
Species loss
Summer aroma
Too hot to hoot
Wild vs farmed fish
Walrus and Carpenter (6 stanzas, a 'brief saga')
Authors' Note: Scientists have determined that as of 2018, more than 99% of all the species that have been present on our planet have become extinct. Many of the existing varieties of life, plant and animal, are under increasing pressure due to global warming, loss of habitat and in some cases, exploitation and pollution.
Authors' Note: Although meat-eating is a practice that we personally have avoided for almost 20 years, we do accept that most people around us continue to indulge in this ancient tradition, appropriate to when the planet and our species were younger. We would not make you happy if we continued on a rant (kvetch = complaint) about this issue; we prefer to remain silent, and live and let live. Inhabiting a downtown neighborhood with very small urban lots has its limitations, and the smells and smoke of dinner being barbecued by our neighbors almost every summer evening is one of them.
By the way, we and our partner continue to eat seafood and fish on occasion to ensure adequate protein intake, but one person in our immediate family is a true vegetarian (but not vegan). As you know, the terms to describe these eating patterns are complex and even misleading, but all non-meat-eaters would prefer that others keep their steak-smoke to themselves.
Authors' Note:
Sir; a plan, if final — Paris.
In December 2015, the United States, under President Barack Obama, became a part of the Paris Accord, an international convention to mitigate the effects of climate change by curtailing production of greenhouse gases.
In June 2017, President Donald Trump, whose personal business depended in large part on the construction and operation of golf-resorts, proceeded to withdraw from the treaty.
Immediately after his inauguration in January 2021, President Joe Biden took measures to rejoin the accord.
Authors' Note: As stocks around the planet have suffered from overfishing, the price of fresh wild fish has mounted incessantly. As of 2016, aquaculture has apparently resulted in over 50% of the global supply of this foodstuff, both marine and freshwater varieties.
Carp, catfish, Atlantic salmon and tilapia are the leading four types of fish currently involved, with recent improvements in the quality and reliability of farmed flatfish (turbot, flounder, halibut, etc.).
Note that the six stanzas of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.
And as a later development, we put words to music. You can now sing along with the song "WALRUS and CARPENTER" by proceeding to our song-blog "Silly Songs and Satire". Click HERE.
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Most of these key elements of our work are assembled here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections.
The "Daily" format, a formidable mix of genres has the advantage of including song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.
