The record breaking string hottest days ever was not even over when ABC TV showed this frightening graphic this week.
Scientists tell us that the Earth reached the highest temperatures ever recorded on four consecutive days this week—an unprecedented occurrence. Worse, even higher temperatures are expected in this month and August as El Niño strengthens. Canadian wildfires—this time mostly in northern Quebec and eastern provinces continue to burn out of control repeatedly blanketing much of the American Midwest and Northeast with foul and dangerous smoke. Melting of the Antarctic and Artic ice caps is accelerating. Climate change, the egg heads tell us, is accelerating even faster than predicted despite half-hearted attempts by global economic powers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Conditions were much the same back in the Summer of 2019 when I was moved to write this poem.
The Fire Next Time is Now
August 27, 2019
For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
—2 Peter 3: 5-7 The Bible New King James Version
Okay, so Biblical Prophecy is not my thing.
Mumbo-jumbo, mystic-tristick bullshit.
It gives me a rash and a headache.
But this creeps me out, you know?
Cripes look at the headlines!
Record Heat Wave Feeds Massive Australian Bush Fires
Wildfires Permanently Alter Alaska’s Forest Composition
Huge Wildfires in the Arctic and Far North Send a Planetary Warning
Siberia is Burning!
Lungs of the World Ablaze in the Amazon
More Fires Now Burning in Angola, Congo Than Amazon.
Maybe Peter, or whoever wrote in his name,
was onto something after all.
I don’t know exactly who is un-godly
—me probably, you maybe,
those guys over there,
but maybe the day of judgement and perdition
is on us all after all.
We failed somehow despite the warnings
of a thousand prophets, Jeremiahs, and Cassandras
who warned us over and over
to do something before it’s too late.
Is it too late really? We beg for answers from the Holy seers.
Hear our plea
Al Gore
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Gagged scientists of NOAA and NASA
Greta Thunberg and your children’s crusade.
Elders of the Alaskan Nunakauyarmiut Tribe
Can we wake up, you know, like Scrooge on Christmas morning
fresh and new, our eyes wide open
and throw open the shutters to buy the world
a turkey and a second chance?
Probably not that easy.
But you know what’s worse?
That Bible guy said no flood this time,
but he was wrong—
the oceans rise, the world sinks
Fire and Flood
Fire and Flood.
Fire and Flood
—Patrick Murfin
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