Skolstrejk för klimatet Say’s Greta Thunberg

AGE OF NATURE Skolstrejk för klimatet Say’s Greta Thunberg

(For Greta Thunberg, Niamh Whitaker, Leonardo McCarthy, David Attenborough) Selected For HearSay International Audio Festival 2021

Go on plant trees raise wind turbines solar power our world before it’s too late We need to hurry up which has a suggestion of agitated bustle & confusion We need to act now with urgency & precipitancy We need to get cracking not chop chop, make it snappy, dash race, Step it out, move fast, quick, accelerate, shake a leg, rush Press on, hurtle dart, fly, chase, scurry sprint gallop Whizz whoosh vroom pelt zoom, high tail it, scramble, scurry Go on plant trees raise wind turbines solar power our world before it’s too late . Stora Alvaret extends from villages of Kalkstad & Lenstad South of Färjestaden to Ottenby & further on Offering rich pastures to herds of cattle, sheep & goats & hardy livelihoods Flocks of Lapwing & Buzzards thirty or more Rare Orchids & species Dependent on grassland grazed so Musk Butterfly & Marsh Orchid can flourish But for how long more as Antarctica’s ice is melting fast? ending up in oceans Causing Sea levels to rise 20 cm in last 10 years . Already South Pacific, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Louisiana & United States Are losing land at rate of 5-acre pasture field every 45 minutes We even have a new terminology climate change refugee Who must relocate as oceans are expanding & are warmer? Even the majestic eco system of natural wonder of coral reefs Are bleaching & dying from over production of oil gas & fossil fuels Our great friends and climate regulator the trees & plants who use up carbon Dioxide for photosynthesis? these rainforests are been cleared showing Orange emergency colour on satellite in Columbia, Peru, Paraguay, Bolivia Imagine whole forests cut down for rubber & palm oil . Causing our natural system to be strained thereby More CO2 added to atmosphere warming everything 2 degrees hotter Causing floods & droughts Turning our beautiful humid rainforests to savannah’s overnight

Prompting farmers across Stora Alvaret to pose the question Of how to maintain agriculture? If food & water are scarce the world is at a tipping point a trigger Scientists believe we could cause irreversible change to our wonderful planet . As excess methane from Greenhouse gas is stored in the Artic may bubble up Already White pockets of gas are been released out of the ice From the millions of lakes in the Artic melting The world needs to reforest to capture carbon dioxide in Oak Ash & Beech Norway could harness its hydro power India can gather heat from Sun In solar power joining Germany & China turning it into electricity With wind turbines installed to capture wind Planes & cars made electric instead of been powered by fuel . Go on plant trees raise wind turbines solar power our world before it’s too late We need to hurry up which has a suggestion of agitated bustle & confusion We need to act now with urgency & precipitancy We need to get cracking not chop chop, make it snappy, dash race, Step it out, move fast, quick, accelerate, shake a leg, rush Press on, hurtle dart, fly, chase, scurry sprint gallop Whizz whoosh vroom pelt zoom, high tail it, scramble, scurry Go on plant trees raise wind turbines solar power our world before it’s too late .