Showing posts with label coronavirus and climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coronavirus and climate change. Show all posts

Saturday, April 18, 2020

(un)Comfortably Numb

Courtesy Tom Janssen
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Sunday. Formidable Mother Nature has given me permission to rest.
I’m pulling a mask (homemade) over my brain for one day… after a brief scan of more awful news from around our suffering planet:

Together, at Home

Then there's Together, at Home, the effort by Global Citizen to recognize healthcare workers, support stay-at-home and lockdown orders/requests, and to come together as one people across the globe. 

Latest research on virus

Numbers tell a story:
Global confirmed infections: 2,329,655
Global confirmed dead: 160,721
US confirmed infections: 735,086
Next closest number of confirmed infections: Spain with 194,416

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

I donned waders and climbed into the pond to clear out the ubiquitous spear-like leaves of the yucca aloifolia.
Turns out this plant is indigenous, not to South Africa, but to the US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.

While in the pond, I thinned pond weed, plucked another batch of the pest invasive lilies, and checked for goldfish. Nine days... and I’ve  spotted not one.
Hope springs eternal.
Mother Nature smiled.



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