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| Since our first report, the massive campaign against climate science – and action on climate, funded by oil barons the Koch Brothers has come to light. And while fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil, whose very products are causing global warming, continue to fund think tanks driving the campaigns, much of the foundation funding has now been driven underground, masked by a funding front-group called the Donors Trust – and its associate Donors Capital Fund, two “donor-advised” funds created to hide the real givers and thus shield them from negative exposure of their support for these campaigns. Funding to the organizations that comprise the denial machine has risen during the Obama presidency, just as the urgency of climate solutions and promise of policy advances also rose. --Greenpeace, September, 2013 |
three falls later
traces of Sandy's wrath linger
losses top 50 billion
in a swath from Norfolk to Maine
Tacloban's cyclone
bodies line roadsides
the unnamed dumped in mass graves
thirst hunger disease stalk
the half-dead search for Mom and Son
among shack-splintered debris
tornadoes blight Illinois
tearing through twelve states
the highest winds ever
telephone poles stuck in trees
cars flipped upside down, found two lots away
500 homes in one town rubbled
fossil fuel moguls sigh
calculate their rising costs.
Kit Zak lives with her husband in Lewes, DE. She has most recently had poems published in an anthology about motherhood as well as in the following journals: Avocet: A Nature Journal, The Blue Collar Review, and A Time of Singing.