Dawnings
Oh, come on
By Nicholas Hooper
If you are fortunate enough to live away from areas affected by fire or flood
If your climate isn’t too badly affected by the rapidly rising heat this summer
If your garden isn’t too affected by the hosepipe ban due to water shortage
If your bank account and investments still look good and strong
If your government can stop the migration of people from hotter climates
then you might be forgiven for thinking that climate change doesn’t affect you
But our island has notoriously unpredictable weather
and if you’re a farmer, you will be noticing how difficult it is to reliably
grow food when the weather has become even more varied and extreme
You need food on this island and farmers, yes farmers are increasingly
worried about their ability to produce enough
So stop burying your head in the sand
We need to talk
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About Dawnings:
“Every morning at around 5am I get up and go down to my studio. After a short meditation I write down whatever is in my head, giving myself fifteen minutes to do so. Then moving over to the piano (or a more portable instrument like my Ukulele when I'm away), I improvise and record a piece of music inspired by whatever words I just wrote. It is a great way of keeping both my writing and my composing going and I call these small creations Dawnings. They are mostly unedited, like sketches, so that they keep that fresh feeling of an early morning discovery.”
— Nick Hooper