Climate Change

Climate change is to the Republican base what leprosy once was to healthy humans — untouchable and unmentionable. Their party is financed by people whose fortunes are dependent upon denying that humans have caused the earth’s weather patterns to change for the worse.

Timothy Egan

John Ashbery

A John Ashbery take on sustainability; on how there is too much gabbing and no action to stop denuding the environment. The earth in this poem seems to be slipping from our grasp:

So it all comes round
to individual responsibility and awareness,
that circus of dusty dramas, denuded forests and car dealerships, a place
where anything can and does happen, and hours and hours go by. 

I like the phrasing, "the circus of dusty dramas."