There is a War
There is a war raging
Using chemical and machine,
Counting the casualties
In numbers astronomically obscene,
Laying waste the land,
Hunting the helpless in fantastic amounts,
Spraying poison indiscriminately –
Where profit is the key
And the only line that counts.
Opher 13.9.2016
There is a War
There is a war going on. It is a war against nature. Pest and weed are being decimated. There is collateral damage.
A pest is a creature that we don’t happen to like. It wants to live. It eats our crops and lives on our land.
A weed is a plant we don’t like. It grows on our land. It takes nutrients and light from our crops. It makes our garden look untidy.
We have to eradicate anything that encroaches on ours.
We can take what we want but nothing should dare to intrude on what we have claimed as ours.
We wage war on it. With chemical poison and machine we slaughter in huge numbers. The bees, butterflies, frogs, newts, and toads are all collateral damage.
The invertebrate population has been decimated. 56% have gone. That’ll teach them! 10% of all wildernesses have been claimed by us in the last twenty years. We have laid waste to it all. It is now denuded, coffee plantation, palm oil or simply desolate.
There’s a war going on. We won’t be happy until we have beaten it all.