<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(84, 130, 53); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 24pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Climate Change</span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 13.5pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">by Kath Weston</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 13.5pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Heatwave, storms and flooding rain,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dust that sweeps across the plain,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Insect plagues that kill our grain,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Climate change is causing pain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 13.5pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The health impacts are more than clear,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Big changes to our atmosphere,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">High pollen counts and dust appear,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s rural folk who’ve much to fear.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 13.5pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Water-borne diseases flare,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chronic coughs from sooty air,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Diseases rife that once were rare,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Impacts healthcare everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 13.5pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">With stresses up and incomes down,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The land once green, is dusty brown,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Abandoned shops, a ghostly town,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">A smile becomes a worried frown.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 13.5pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Heat-related illness high,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">As days warm up and rivers dry,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The problems only magnify,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s not enough to just sit by.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 13.5pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Don’t use so much, be water-wise,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Walk a bit – it’s exercise!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Protect the land, and stabilise,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grow trees, renew, don’t carbonise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 13.5pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Alternatives to coal abound,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wind turbines that go round and round,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And sun and hydro, all are sound,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Just leave the fossils in the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 13.5pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Some heads can’t stay stuck in the sand,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s up to all to make a stand,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And scream and shout across the land,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">“This has to stop!” is our demand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 13.5pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">A lot is up to you and me,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">To work on our efficiency,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">But pollies need to hear our plea,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">So, write a note to your MP:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 13.5pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">“To slow the global warming rate,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">All parties must collaborate,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Disaster if we hesitate,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our Earth deserves a better fate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 13.5pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">“For climate change is here to stay,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">With impacts that won’t go away,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Our health is quite a price to pay,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s time to act, do it today.”</span></p></div>————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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