My son tells me sulfur is being shot
into the atmosphere to solve our problems
of fires and not enough rain. Normally,
I prefer to stay clear of conspiracy theories.
But then again, where we live, after a decade
of drought-related worries, this year—
four months of continuous rain, flooding,
even evacuations. Are they connected?
I’m curious, so I google sulfur,
atmosphere, and rain.
There’s a lot I don’t understand.
It sounds more than a bit like sci-fi
tales—climate geoengineering
and stratosphere injections
using airplanes, balloons, and artillery.
Scientists want to mimic the filtering
of the sun, I read, and increased precipitation
when sulfur is emitted in the troposphere
after volcanos have erupted.
I’m not the only one concerned.
Online, many advise caution, question
whether sulfur dioxide once injected
into our skies can ever be removed.
Some believe this attempt to save the planet
could actually destroy it. One article
lists twenty-seven reasons why playing around
with the big blue is a bad plan.
After all, I didn’t find the answer to my query—
is all the rain we’re having this year
because of experiments above us
in a monkeyed-with atmosphere?
But my take on the matter is—It’s best
not to mess with Mother Nature.
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Carolyn Chilton Casas lives on the central coast of California. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal. Carolyn is a Reiki master and teacher who often explores ways of healing in her articles written for magazines in several countries. More of her work can be found on Facebook or Instagram and in her newest collection of poetry, Under the Same Sky.
