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This and the next two poems, moments of reflection as we drive ourselves into extinction by ignoring all the warnings on climate change and global warming. Even if it is a natural cycle of things there is consensus that we are accelerating the process and along the way poisoning ourselves. I fear for our children and their children when projections give us only a few more generations to enjoy life on earth. Written on the same i-phone I took this picture with immediately after launching one of our balloons to fly over Teotihuacan’s Sun Pyramid on a beautiful morning when it is hard to imagine that such a crisis is looming. 91
