Ode to Greta Thunberg
It takes a schoolgirl like Greta Thunberg
To point the way.
In a world without an iceberg
We’ll have had our day.
With our cities under water
Life will not be the same.
It takes a young Swedish daughter
To change the game.
Eight billion refugees will be set loose
As the weather alters.
We’ll need to be waterproof
Or else listen to Swedish daughters.
Opher – 24.4.2019
Who would have thought that a young schoolgirl to get people to pay attention. With her schoolchildren sit-ins she has forced politicians to pay attention to what is going on. More power to her.
The young are the future. They will inherit the Earth from us. We need to leave it in good shape.
This last few hundred years has been a disaster for the planet.
We, as a species, have gone berserk. Our numbers have gone through the roof. Our technology has gone astronomical. We have massacred the wildlife, decimated the forests, polluted the oceans and filled the air with our effluent.
Three hundred years ago we seemed to think the world’s resources were infinite. We are clearly seeing they are not.
Unless we step back from the brink and bring sanity to bear we will wreck the world we depend on.
Greta Thunberg knows this. Why is it so many older people fail to grasp it?
Reblogged this on Opher's World and commented:
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Greta Thunberg is not a schoolgirl but a drop out with clever minders.
Lol – I can see why you would think that – but she has always been highly committed and I would not call her support minders. Thanks.