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Defenders—we will not

put our futures in

anyone’s blind trust—

these picture books

we are shown

full of cartoon

pie charts and

graphs where a

red line falls off

to the jagged right—

nothing says we have to

blindly trust them nor

the permanent precarity

they so coldly promise us

People of earth

everyday activists

defenders of this coast

here’s what we know

we can blindly trust—

the air our lungs need

the earth our feet walk

the water our rivers carry

the sun that fires our dreams

and the fact that together

we will stop these pipelines

allowing no corridors

for carbon—no fracked earth

for the accumulation of despair