Places
which enchant are often liminal or riparian, as edges
and
boundaries—debatable ground...
I dream of crossing the river,
balancing on tipping points
shifting in their truculent bed; on stones, then, planted in
flumes of turbulent water draining into "a future we want
to avoid."
What we called Nature, the
rawness of a thought, doesn’t
smooth
things over and round out to the nearest decimal.
Gaia is
not a mathematician, but a magician.
As one foot
slides sideways,
the other grips
the earth
tighter.
Places which
enchant:: P.
Curry, Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life. Edinburgh
UK, 2019
tipping points: "Politicians, economists
and even
some natural scientists have tended
to assume that tipping points1 in the
Earth system — such as the loss of
the Amazon rainforest or the West
Antarctic ice sheet 7 are of low probability and little
understood. Yet evidence is mounting that these events
could be more likely than was
thought, have high impacts and are interconnected across
different biophysical systems,
potentially committing the world to long-term
irreversible changes." T.M. Lenton, et.al., "Climate
Tipping Points—Too Risky to Bet Against." Nature,
Vol 575, 28 November 2019.
a future: C. Hamilton, The Anthropocene
and the Global Environmental Crisis. Oxon UK, 2015.
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