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    Our Only World: Poetry for Planet Earth
    Our Only World: Poetry for Planet Earth
    Our Only World: Poetry for Planet Earth
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    Our Only World: Poetry for Planet Earth

    By Poets Unite Worldwide and Fabrizio Frosini

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    Under President Barack Obama, the United States pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 26-28% from 2005 levels by 2025. On the contrary, Obama's Clean Power Plan and regulations set to protect the environment, are now targeted for elimination by President Donald Trump. Indeed, the prominent denier of global warming, today, is the Trump administration! The present head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, publicly denies that CO2 is a primary contributor to global warming —this way the head of EPA negates EPA policy and ‘overwhelmingly clear’ evidence on climate change. Is this just 'politics'? Or should we call it blindness? For many, Mr. Trump is that kind of person who views not only America, but the entire world as a showcase for their own ego. Regrettably, his closest allies and advisers seem to be of the same kind...
    The Earth is the only world we have, and the poems of this collection, filled with empathy and sensitivity, thoroughly show our deep concern for the future both of our planet and of humankind — a future that the latest executive orders coming from the White House make even less comforting..

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFabrizio Frosini
    Release dateApr 28, 2017
    ISBN9781370413683
    Our Only World: Poetry for Planet Earth

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      Our Only World - Poets Unite Worldwide

      Thirty-six poets, from twenty-two countries, have taken part in this compilation. They belong in the free Association 'Poets Unite Worldwide', and have answered my call both for their love for Poetry and for their deep feelings towards environmental issues. My gratitude to each of them.

      Indeed, the Earth is the only world we have, and the poems of this collection, filled with empathy and sensitivity, thoroughly show our deep concern for the future both of our planet and of humankind — a future that the latest executive orders coming from the White House make even less comforting..

      Although a product of the collaborative effort of many poets, this collection has become a book thanks to the work of three talented women: Pamela Sinicrope, Margaret O'Driscoll and Petra Soliman. To them, my special thanks.

      Ad maiora!

      (Fabrizio Frosini, Firenze, April 2017)

      ~*~

      Here lies the body of this world,

      Whose soul alas to hell is hurled.

      Henry David Thoreau, Epitaph on the World

      ~*~

      Introduction

      Climate change, wildlife collapse, environmental destruction: just a trivial science-fiction movie? Unfortunately, this is already part of our present, and to an even greater extent will be our generation’s legacy to our grandchildren. Land, water and air pollution is so widespread that nowhere "a truly virgin environment" still exists: man-made waste has contaminated the entire globe, and together with the increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and in the oceans, they have become markers of a new geological epoch: Anthropocene.

      Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

      According to a detailed global analysis from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), climate change is reaching disturbing new levels across the Earth, showing extreme and unusual conditions. As David Carlson, World Climate Research Programme Director at the WMO said: "Even without a strong El Niño in 2017, we are seeing other remarkable changes across the planet that are challenging the limits of our understanding of the climate system. Thus, as stated by Phil Williamson, from the University of East Anglia: Human-driven climate change is now an empirically verifiable fact, combining year-to-year variability with the consequences of our release of extra greenhouse gases. Those who dispute that link are not sceptics, but anti-science deniers."

      Unfortunately, the prominent denier of global warming, today, is the Trump administration: the present head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, publicly denies that CO2 is a primary contributor to global warming —this way the head of EPA negates EPA policy and ‘overwhelmingly clear’ evidence on climate change. Furthermore, President Trump’s budget blueprint for the coming fiscal year would slash the Environmental Protection Agency by 31%! Is this just 'politics'? Or we want to call it blindness, madness..? For many, Mr. Trump is that kind of person who views not only America, but the entire world as a showcase for their own ego. Regrettably, his closest allies and advisers seem to be of the same kind…

      On March 13, 2017, thirty prominent climate scientists sent a letter to Scott Pruitt, refuting his false statement:"Just as there is no escaping gravity when one steps off a cliff, there is no escaping the warming that follows when we add extra carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere," the scientists wrote [see bibliography for the link]. The group included Nobel laureate chemist Mario Molina of the University of California, San Diego, and members of the National Academy of Sciences (US).

      As Marianne Lavelle wrote: "Under President Barack Obama, the United States pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 26-28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025. That means emissions must be cut about 1.7 billion metric tons, according to figures from the Environmental Protection Agency's latest greenhouse gas inventory. The nation is a third of the way to that target, but the rest was to be achieved via an array of regulations, especially the Clean Power Plan, that are now targeted for elimination by President Donald Trump. Not only was the goal dependent on those rules, it would have also required even more rigorous policies from Obama's successor because reductions from those rules would not have been enough, numerous studies have found. On the contrary: President Donald Trump's planned climate change policies could lead to an extra half a billion tons of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by 2025, according to a new analysis. That is equal to the annual electricity emissions of 60 percent

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