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I'd like to take a small pause
now, to first get some water,

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but also introduce a short video
that I made for the next poem.

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It's a sound
sculpture that I took

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from a gap in time in Fresno of
a thunderstorm that I recorded.

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And also clipped into that
is a study from Jem Bendell.

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His study is on climate
change and climate collapse.

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It's titled A Deep Adaptation.

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And it's been affectionately
known by folks

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as the report that
sends folks to therapy.

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So that'll play, and
then I'll read a poem.

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What are the values, norms, and
behaviors that human societies

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will wish to maintain--

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[INTERPOSING VOICES]

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--the norms of
the kind society--

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[INTERPOSING VOICES]

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[CLAPPING]

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Thank you.

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A, will you listen to
the voice sculpture?

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B, will you listen to the voice
sculpture again and write?

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C, will you remember
the sound of the chimes?

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D, would you be able to write
in the shape of those chimes?

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E, what is value?

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What do you value?

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F, what can you relinquish?

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Have you tested
your grip strength?

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G, when was the last
moment that something

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was pulled from your hands?

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H, in the deep
adaptation, how will you

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tell the tangible goodbye?

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I, have you considered the
taste of water uncontaminated?

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J, if you could cleanse and
decontaminate one watershed,

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would it be the one you
drink from or the one

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the largest population on
the planet drinks from?

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K, in the deep adaptation
to climate change,

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that might not be rhetorical.

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So which watershed
would you choose?

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L, think about the
people drinking

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from the aquifers that
are now contaminated

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or completely dried out.

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Which is worse?

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M, would you fight a man for the
last bottle of milk for a baby?

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N, have you considered
the ways in which

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your footprint, literal and
figurative, can be negated?

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O, are you still reading?

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P, are you still listening?

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Q, have you considered how
a family tree stops growing?

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R, how will you communicate
when the cooling

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systems for all internet
server farms run out of water?

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S, what is post-internet?

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T, who is in control?

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U, are you here?

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[APPLAUSE]

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