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Waiting to Credit Marvels

on global justice, climate change, cricket, living in Winchester and other trials of patience

Tag: climate displacement

Stop pussyfooting on climate refugees

Why does no one challenge the UN High Commissioner for Refugees when he lifts the drawbridge of the 1951 Convention against intrusion by climate refugees?

Published June 13, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate displacement, refugees
Waiting to Credit Marvels
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A blog by Bill Gunyon

Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things