EXCERPTS - > A 'humor' guide to climate change
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> by Dan Bloom
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> Does humor work when we are talking about climate change and global
> warming, as a side note to the many nonfiction print and ebooks about
> the science of it all? What if some old Yiddish dialect words and
> phrases were added to the fray?
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> It's true, we have only one "drerd" (Earth) and look what we are doing
> to it. It's truly "farkarkte" (messed up, literally "shitty") what we
> have done to our home planet.
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> And yes, we need to ''kvetch'' (complain) and kvetch loudly -- and
> together and unison -- all in the family, one ''mishpoche'' ("family)
> on Earth, one people, one race, one Earth, one chance to get it right.
> We need to speak directly to our world leaders and politcians who are
> not doing enough to avert a possibly unspeakable tragedy in the next
> 500 years. Maybe sooner. ''Oi gevalt!'' (''oh no!")
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> ''Oi vey!'' (oh such pain!)
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> ''Oi vay iz mir!'' (''Woe is us!'')
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> The world has become too materialistic and "ongeshtopt" (over-stuffed
> with money, which is short for "ongeshtopf mit gelt" -- over-stuffed
> with money, as "gelt" means money).
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> It's a real "shande" (a disgrace, a scandal) what we are doing to the
> Earth with this climate change and global warming "meshagus"
> (craziness). The last 150 years have been over the top. But what did
> we know? We knew nothing.
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> Until the United Nations stepped up to the plate with their IPCC
> reports. we knew very little. Now we know the score, and there's no
> use in pretending otherwise.
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> And to fight AGW (man-made global warming)? It's been "pisk malokhe"
> (all talk and no action) so far! And if we don't stop AGW, we are
> headed for major "tsoris" (trouble, misery) in the future.
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> It's time for our leaders and politicans to "tuches afen tisch" (''put
> one's ass on the table''; meaning "put up or shut up!).