Poetry – Animals Burn

Posted on by Opher

Animals Burn

While animals fry and fires burn

                The perpetrators never seem to learn.

Lands flood and other lands dry

                But some people never ask why.

So, profits are made and trees fall

                And they do not care at all.

The lies are spread in a cynical way

                And the future looks decidedly grey.

Green laws are repealed,

                The truth concealed,

Money stashed,

                Habitats crashed.

Time for the great backlash!!

                OUR PLANET IS WORTH MORE THAN HARD CASH!!!

Opher -14.1.2020

Environmental laws are repealed by politicians with vested interests – in a never-ending quest for wealth and power.

Through bribes, through threats and through self-interest, the laws are made.

Without environmental consideration more money can be made, the economy grows, there are more jobs, more wealth, more profits for the rich.

Yet there is a cost.

The cost is the planet.

As forests are destroyed, animals habitats flattened and the land and water becomes polluted the whole planet suffers.

We pay for the removal of environmental laws with tainted air and water, more illness, global changes, climate change and the destruction of nature.

‘Daddy, is it true that there were once tigers, elephants and chimpanzees?’

4 thoughts on “Poetry – Animals Burn”

  2. Opher – What a difference it’d could make to environmental protection laws if all political parties were financed solely by the tax-payer and not lobbied, with the expectation of having influence, by private wealth, dark money, and spurious back-handers! It is not democratic when policy is drawn-up on the back of donations – made by big oil, big-gas etc – that negatively impact on great swathes of the electorate, and cause untold damage to wildlife, the environment, and the pllanet solely to benefit select individuals and increase their wealth. There has to be tighter regulation. In the States, Elizabeth Warren had the right idea: no donations accepted over £5K. She still raised millions. Why do we not do this here? (The Tories argue Labour receive big donations from the Unions, which justifies the Conservatives being privately financed.)

    DN

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