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The Ecocidal Syndrome
Psychotic
in the last years
of life on Earth,
humans clung tight
to multiple delusions,
grimly unaware
of their own
commercially driven
predator instinct
blindly pushing
with ecocidal greed
their self-extinction,
all but the few
who bravely insisted
they expose reality,
though coldly ignored
or slyly compared
to crazy extremists
by the corporate media,
when it was over
and all lay dead,
there were no people
alive to remember
anyone ever existed.
John Talbot Ross, and another of his poems....
NO ESCAPE
Nearly every day
I happily try to be
that helpful friend
my neighbors allow,
yet I am haunted
by the impending
worldwide calamity
they dare not comprehend,
the hedge corrupted lending
for rampant deficit spending
on sprawling commercial growth
for executive wealth and power
they can well afford to extend
by ignoring the tons of rubbish,
junk, sludge, smoke and fumes,
that vast and festering blend
in growing mountains of landfill,
swirling patches of plastic ocean,
freshwater lakes no longer fresh
and a jet-exhausted atmosphere
over the haze of big city smog
all dissimulated not to offend
the billions of hardworking but
ad-driven and credit-addicted
trash-dumping shoppers who
with their corporate suppliers
imagine a great future when
as part of the growing trend
their dreams forever expand
to outer space adventures,
while this life-supporting
planetary biosphere
they barely know
and fail to defend
shrinks and slips
into the toxic
self-extinction
of its over-populated,
garbage-choked,
ecocidal
end.
From; If Saving Earth
http://www.angelfire.com/va/jauntyalbatross/ and "When the well is dry, we know the worth of water". BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, (1706-1790)
plus:
Research from Murtaugh and Schlax at Oregon State University shows that a hypothetical American woman who switches to a more fuel-efficient car, drives less, recycles, installs more efficient light bulbs, and replaces her refrigerator and windows with energy-saving models, would increase her carbon legacy by 40 times if she has two children.
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