Comments on: A Planet’s Plea for Survival (tar sands pipeline to nowhere)

By: Glynn

Glynn — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:33:02 +0000

You use poetry to explicate the news, and tell a story int he process. Good one.

By: Mama Zen

Mama Zen — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:51:16 +0000

Really powerful writing. They certainly are keeping this pipeline quiet, aren’t they?

By: Claudia

Claudia — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:50:29 +0000

i love your political poems and i love that you lend your voice to our planet belinda..great write

By: hedgewitch

hedgewitch — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:44:19 +0000

Thanks for raising your voice on this issue. The poem as a pure poem is excellent, but gains through the added meanings. Marching in front of the White House is about all we can do, but I don’t have much hope that this administration is anything but a rubber stamp for corporate interests from Wall Street to the oilfields.

By: Monika

Monika — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:48:46 +0000

How thoughtful of you present the issue before us, and so well, so beautiful. I loved the imagery.

By: mrs mediocrity

mrs mediocrity — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:21:28 +0000

powerful stuff, really made me stop and take a pause. beautiful music in your poem, wrapped around a serious subject.

By: Kim Nelson

Kim Nelson — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:04:15 +0000

As I read this, I couldn’t help but think that the world is aging much like I am. What part of this is the natural sequence of events? What part is lack of care? Interesting to ponder.

By: Belinda

Belinda — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:25:52 +0000

Thanks, Sara. Wish we could get soem truthful answers to your excellent questions.

By: Belinda

Belinda — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:18:18 +0000

Excellent question, Lauren. We have got to change our ways.

By: Belinda

Belinda — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:16:56 +0000

It takes some awareness-building and many people talking and asking questions to really grasp how greenhouse gas emissions affect all of us wherever we are in the world.
Dr. Hansen estimates that opening up access to the tar sands will result in adding 200 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 to the atmosphere — on top of the current 390 ppm. We’ve already exceeding the highest possible safe level that will preserve a world we would recognize which is 350 ppm.