Environmental Crumble

Environmental Crumble from Recipes for Disaster

Anne Tabor-Morris

Ingredients: 1 star, size medium 1 planet earth, gravity compliant Liquid water Powdered snow Salt to taste as swimming the ocean Grains of sand Grains that grow Leafy greens Slivers of fish, jellyfish, squid Mixed mammals, mushrooms, microscopic bacteria Atmospheric clouds of multi-use gasses

Instructions:

After drenching in aurulent sunlight the waters, sprinkle liberally seeds of various DNAs. Stir earth’s atmosphere gyre, mix highs and lows via a Coriolis effect. Encourage photosynthesis, ladle digestive enzymes. This is not a witch’s brew. This is enchantment of a planet. Breathe deeply.

Add intelligence, cunning of both predator and prey, and pray. Visualize distinctions, extinctions. Recall every fishbowl evolves disparately. Check often for fever, fire, local or global warming. Ice the glaciers.

Top the mountains with frosting and billygoats, tilt at aphelion, sprinkle cherry blossom petals.

Add miracles of babies, mother’s instinct for cubs, fold in a confusion of masses, jumble populations over the course of millennia. Let rise and fall empires. Swirl in politics, religions and dreams. Layers will form: mantle and crust, limnology levels, social strata, circadian cycles. Knead it and need it. Hope and hope

or crash and burn. Flambeau with the douse of reason, ozone lost over the poles, polar bears swimming round North Pole’s skewer. Smoke ascent and plummet with deep convection. Garnish with anthropogenic beasts who “know best”. To serve, cut with the double-edged sword of science. Find a way to better serve the future.