No Person is a Snowflake

Written in response to a discussion in my Christian Ethics class as we discussed climate change; with apologies to John Donne.

No person is a snowflake entire of itself; every person

is a piece of the glacier, a part of the main;

if a piece of the glacier be washed away by the sea, our climate

is the less…

All climate change diminishes me,

because I am involved in our climate.

And therefore never send to know for whom

the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.