Campfire Climate Ghost Stories

Collected Summer 2021 Climate Ghost Stories by Adam Powers

Aug 20, 2021

I’m pausing my run of new Climate Ghost Stories for the Summer being to focus on sharing with you other kinds of writing: more poetry, daily climate reflections, quotes from my faves, more weather forecasts, etc. Sorry to all my horror genre lovers and thanks for sticking with me. Expect more ghost stories on the haunt around October.

Until then, here’s a round-up of your Climate Ghost Stories from Summer 2021.

Summer ‘21 Campfire Climate Ghost Stories

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👩‍🍳👻 Baker's Story

👩‍🍳👻Baker's Story There was once an idea I couldn't get out of my headStuck in my oven while baking my breadAmid wet and dry warmth, mixing ingredientsPreheating temps at an increasing expedienceBetween living, working, and feeling disconnected from it all…

a year ago · Adam Powers

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👨‍💼💀 Accountant's Story

👨‍💼💀Accountant's Story There once was a thought I couldn't quite shakeAt work between meetings, while taking a breakA presence put dwelling over my next to-doTrapped me reconciling what's valuable from what's trueRegistering that any worth written on my balance sheet is fake…

a year ago · Adam Powers

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👶👹 Kid's Story

👶👹Kid's Story There once was a feeling I couldn't quite loseWhile dreaming of my future, thinking a kid could choosePossessed with a thought, imagination trembling wildObsessed with the impossible, naive little childWhile dreaming laughing playing crying winning loving too…

a year ago · Adam Powers

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🗿😱My Story

🗿😱My Story There once was a fear that kept me up at nightTossing and turning wondering what I'm doing with my lifeComing of age learning of our changing climate-fated curseManifesting multi-cascading interrelated crises only get worseRolling me in bed over this apocalyptic fright…

a year ago · Adam Powers

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🕷🦗Insect's Story

🕷🦗Insect’s Story Far away and just as long ago, there once was an insectWho left town to learn what home is and connectTo find somewhere in the world, the bug wandered a ways creepingCrawling in and out forging pathways, elongating, and leapingTo return to exponentially declining rates of their brothers and sisters, at rest…

a year ago · Adam Powers

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🏭🫁Atmosphere's Story

🏭🫁Atmosphere’s Story Before the world became as it is today, when the atmosphere was younger -Or younger-at-heart anyway - when the air was filled with something like wonder,And they contained so many multitudes, they balanced over four million millennia…

a year ago · Adam Powers

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🤰🏿🤱Mother’s Story

🤰🏿🤱Mother’s Story Back in the early days, before the beginning of time was bornTheir Mother was anxiously waiting while looking forwardDoing all she could, whispering sweet cosmos to her everything kickingExpecting a remarkable young run, cut from same cloth, fitting…

a year ago · Adam Powers

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🧟‍♂️🛢️Zombie Story

🧟‍♂️🛢️Zombie Story Sometime late 1990s, maybe ‘99The dead came back, but all seemed fineYet every day from the ground more and more zombies arose You’d think there’d be more mounting concern, but no–And though some know this started a century and some change earlier in time…

a year ago · Adam Powers

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🏚️⛓️Haunted House Story

🏚️⛓️Haunted House Story Way on the edge of a dark suburb, rests an old haunted houseDown an industrial alley, when you see a blighted cul de sac, you're closeBut if you know, you know– no one is known to have returnedExcept those who want to be the haunt by accelerating carbon burned…

a year ago · Adam Powers

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🔪🔥Serial Killer Story

If you’re in the climate space, you would have seen a new research report released this week quantifying deaths attributed to carbon footprints by country. Horrific stuff. I appreciate Vox.com’s coverage of the study in Future Perfect, quoted below Danny Bressler, a PhD candidate in sustainable development at Columbia University, has published a study in…

a year ago · Adam Powers

Photo by Joris Voeten on Unsplash, editing by Adam Powers

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