"... all of this unthinkable
"... rising seas are sinking futures
"... entire countries … disappear forever
"... mass exodus … a biblical scale
"... rising sea levels …shrinking landmasses
"... territorial integrity and maritime spaces
"... death sentence for vulnerable countries
"... threat-multiplier
... any time in the past 11,000
... fraction of a degree
... danger acute … 900 million
... ice cap … 270 billion tons per year.
... $100-billion climate finance
all of this unthinkable ...
Captions extracted from Sea-level Rise: Remarks by UN Secretary-General António Guterres during The United Nations (UN) Security Council’s first-ever debate on the global implication of Sea-level Rise, February 14, 2023.
Photos February 2023 Dry River country of Oregon's Crook County, which continues in Extreme Drought ... with a nod to Chaos Theory; the Butterfly Wing in an upside-down world where rising is sinking.
Photos February 2023 Dry River country of Oregon's Crook County, which continues in Extreme Drought ... with a nod to Chaos Theory; the Butterfly Wing in an upside-down world where rising is sinking.
Wang Wei (701-761 CE) a Chinese poet, artist and practitioner of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism; trans. David Hinton in The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (New Directions Books, 2006)
...
East Creek, Savoring the Moon
From between hewn peaks, a far-off moon
emerges at the edge of my brushwood gate.
Ten thousand trees sharing its clear skies
as shadows blur toward the heart of night,
its radiance offers emptiness white images
and its ch' invests wind with ice-cold dew.
The valley's silent. Autumn streams echo.
Deep among cliffwalls, scraps of azure haze
linger. Crystal pure, it enters isolate dream,
opening shadows, embracing empty peaks,
then I wake at my ch'in window confused:
pine creek at dawn, not a thought anywhere.
