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I was inspired by a few creative responses to climate change that I saw this week and decided to share two of them with you.  First, a poem about the proposed mining of Liverpool Plains in South Wales and then a demonstration that took place outside the United Nations calling for a reduction in carbon emissions.

Susan Hawthorne wrote and posted this poem in her blog that she is writing from India where she is attending a conference on climate change.  Here it is, via the Feminist Peace Network:

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she dreams of making armour for the earth
a helmet to prevent the drillers from beginning
a breastplate so they cannot cut open her heart
greaves to stop the underground lines
breaking through to the water table

it confounds her that anyone would want
to mine Liverpool Plains
to make the earth a corpse to strip
back the muscle layer by layer
to let light in under all that rich deep earth
to groom her for profit burn coal embers
in the asthmatic air the heat increasing
to burn away everything for the emptiness
of waterdrained lungdrained flatlands

Let them eat coal not food.

Here is the demonstration, reported by the ITN News: