Earth cries! We are the gods that must step up to the biggest crisis in history | Ben Okri's poem on the climate crisis

In a new poem, the writer and author calls for bold action in this era of wildfires, overheated oceans and shrinking biodiversity

Words for the day.
Denial. Justice. Right
To protest. And Earth cries.
O when will we wake up?
Gulf Stream dying.
Day's end approaching.
Climate migrants. Oil spills.
Global boiling. Carbon
Emissions. Net zero.
Fossil fuel nightmare.
Wandering rage of the world,
Trying to find a home.

Ben Okri is a Booker prize-winning author and poet. His book Tiger Work, a collection of stories, essays and poems about the climate crisis, is published by Head of Zeus

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