![]() ![]() So without further ado, here’s the poem, reprinted with Hinshelwood’s permission. “Without vocalizing our own thoughts, without experimenting with climate change vocabulary, and digging into our personal reflections, I feel that the process of readjusting our lifestyles will be particularly painful and isolating,” Hinshelwood explains on the Web page, which she posted after I asked her about using her poem in this blog. And I realized I was gaining some insight into what the average person, in Wales at least, thinks about the global issue on a personal level. When I first heard about it I thought, “Hmmm.” But as I read the poem I felt people’s emotions, from disdain to outrage. Hinshelwood then mashed up the answers, verbatim, into a poem. ![]() ![]() Want to know what climate change really means to people? Emily Hinshelwood found out in a most unusual way.įor days on end the Welsh poet and writer walked the 121-mile train route known as the Heart of Wales Line and asked every single person she met the same three questions: What images come to mind when you think of climate change? How often does climate change come up in your conversations? Is there anything you, personally, can do to limit the effects of climate change? She got answers, as she notes on her Web site, from “all sorts of people, from eight-year-olds to 80-year-olds, from pilots to gravediggers, from men drunk by the side of the river, to prison wardens having a quick outside jail.” Drunks and Gravediggers Wax Poetic about Climate Change ![]()
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