On the horizon

Dear horizon               dear approaching horizon
 
          “The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
         “A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see.” John Berger
 
 Dear horizon               dear approaching horizon                    
           
            August 2018 a child sits outside parliament striking for climate justice
           
            17 and 18 January 2019 45000 students in Switzerland and Germany strike for climate justice                               
 
                                                                   dear horizon
 
                        15 March 2019 more than a million children go on climate strike worldwide
 
a placard at a rally in Berlin reads: “Like the sea level we rise”
 
            gradually then suddenly                      everything changes
 
John Berger: “Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.”
 
Sophie Handford, climate strike leader: “It was like a switch flipped in me seeing a 16-year-old girl that is acknowledging the urgency and actually doing something about it.”
 
24 May 2019               hundreds of thousands of children
 
on strike around the world                  in more than 1600 cities
 
            dear horizon                dear reproach
 
                        you are my most beautiful horizon
 
31 January 2019 3400 Belgian scientists write in support of the climate strikers
 
            1200 researchers in Finland, 11 March 2019, sign in support
 
April 2019 a letter titled "Concerns of young protesters are justified" is signed by over 3000 scientists worldwide
 
                                     dear horizon                            dear approach
 
         John Berger: “Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand…”
 
                                September 22 over 4 million march worldwide
 
                               September 27 over 3.5 % of all New Zealanders join the march  
 
                                                       Al Gore: “the will to act is a renewable resource”
 
                                   Raven Maeder, school strike leader: “We need to hold onto that hope because giving up isn’t going to achieve anything.”
                                   
I feel circumstances    are very dark               I have felt        so little energy
 
             little vision      lines, areas of tone      the sea level rising       
 
                                               an urgency      crashing           onto sand         retreating        
 
                but in the darkness      energy can be strongest         
           
                can we follow the lines           areas of tone
           
                the switch                                flip
           
          hope pass         from hand        to hand
 
                             oh I feel such an anguish of hope I will not let go of
 
                                                                                   dear horizon                dear beautiful horizon