Shadorma
hot and dry
another scorcher
the roads melt
dams are dry
even the birds are thirsty
everything is still
the dead fish
float on the rivers
a million
maybe more
the world is getting hotter
cotton farms don't help
Murray cod (30 - 40 years old.)..found dead
* Cotton farming takes too much water from the already struggling river systems. It is not suitable farming for Australia which is the driest continent on earth.*
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Mankind is such a pest. I wonder when we’ll stop wiping out everything around us, and ourselves in the process.
ReplyDeleteThe thought of those thirsty birds and the sight of that old fish do things to my insides.
Ugh...What a mess humans are! Moving lines.
ReplyDeleteThis should be required reading ~~~ for all mankind. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteAll those dead fish......how alarming! Thanks for shining some light on their plight. Cotton farming does seem out of place in such intense heat.
ReplyDeleteHumans... :(
ReplyDeleteI wonder when will mankind gather some sense and stop destroying everything around him. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteWonder what earth would be like if humans did not wreck so much of it either intentionally or through ignorance.
ReplyDeleteAmazing what we can see and not see at the same time.
ReplyDeleteOh gosh how depressing.
ReplyDeleteIt seems human nature Ral, to force what ought not be - even to the detriment of this world... now I've learned about the cotton situation in Oz! Thanks for sharing...
ReplyDeleteDo hope we get it right (at some point)
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by my sumie Sunday Rall
Much💖💖💖love
Excellent commentary.
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Nicely done. I wish I knew an answer. Well, actually I do, I wish those in power did.
ReplyDeleteWe live in a wonderful country don't we but are terrible caretakers of it. Sadly we are inherently greedy and poor caretakers of of world.
ReplyDeleteIt seems making a dime at the cost of nature isn't a problem these days. so terribly sad
ReplyDeletedamnable bipeds ~
ReplyDeleteLovely, descriptive writing, Rall.
ReplyDeleteNot sure I could endure those conditions.
Sad how humans destroy everything for the sake of making money See what the enormous cost are
ReplyDeleteStill . . . thirsty . . . dead. That about sums it up. Cotton doesn't help.
ReplyDeleteI saw a photo on facebook of a car tire that melted on the hot road. How horrifying.
ReplyDeleteSure is a sad state of events. Nicely written
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