Cascade of Climate Change Consequences

Refrain

Down down down inexorable

In full view unstoppable

Lining up across landscapes

Cascades of climate change consequences.

Green House Gases

Temperatures rising, oceans heating

Heat domes emerging,

High pressure, low pressure, 

Polar vortex and weather bombs.

Refrain

Wild fires spreading, hurricanes growing,

River rainfall, snowfall, storm-fall,

Polar ice, permafrost melting,

Greenland, other land glaciers retreat

Cities flooding, drowning shorelines

Refrain

Acidification, dead zones, coral dying

Ocean currents changing,

Fresh clean water diminishing.

Species at risk, flora and fauna

Ecological complexity declines.

Refrain

Food challenges increasing,

Agriculture dependent, pollination, food chains

Irrigation, aquifers, lakes,

Insects, disease migration,

Human forced relocation

Refrain

Human population growing, dying,

Illness, pandemics, health care,

Social, cultural, political,

Economies, homes, work and play,

Risks, threats, unknowns

Refrain

Settlement infrastructure

Municipal services, employment

Unemployment, manufacturing makeover

Resource shortfalls, direction pitfalls,

Low appropriate technology

Refrain

Clean electric energy

Transportation corridors, timing, rules and regulations

Education compromised, systems, locations

Rural - urban, poor well-off,

Urban agriculture and forestry

Refrain

Cleanup fossil fuel technology, fracking 

Plastic waste abounds

Tectonic, volcanic, sink holes

Winds whipping about

Minds in denial

Refrain

Values Attitudes Beliefs 

Respect compassion

Jeopardy

Refrain

©️ Steven Tubb, 2022