conservation

Poetry – Empty Words

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Opher

Empty Words

Looking for loopholes,

False promises,

Empty words.

We are watching you.

The young will not forgive.

They will write your history.

Their words will be as harsh as the weather.

We are watching you.

Not enough wood for the pyres.

Not enough oxygen for the lungs.

Not enough understanding of the need.

We are watching you!!

Opher 23.4.2021

The politicians lie about the way they love and cherish the environment when all the time the only things they are cherishing is power and the size of their bank deposits!!

All over the world nature is threatened.

It’s time everyone came together to put a stop to this massacre!!

We are watching you!!

History will remember who it was who raped the planet!

Empty Words

Looking for loopholes,

False promises,

Empty words.

We are watching you.

The young will not forgive.

They will write your history.

Their words will be as harsh as the weather.

We are watching you.

Not enough wood for the pyres.

Not enough oxygen for the lungs.

Not enough understanding of the need.

We are watching you!!

Opher 23.4.2021

The politicians lie about the way they love and cherish the environment when all the time the only things they are cherishing is power and the size of their bank deposits!!

All over the world nature is threatened.

It’s time everyone came together to put a stop to this massacre!!

We are watching you!!

History will remember who it was who raped the planet!

Poetry – The Horn

Posted on January 9, 2021 by Opher

The Horn

I’ve got the horn

Ripped straight

From the head;

Does wonders in bed.

An explosion of lead

Stagger

And dead.

Hacked clean

Into something

Obscene.

Poor eyesight;

It never saw us

The very last

Rhinoceros.

Opher 4.7.2015

The Horn

We are rapidly wiping out the wild things, the forests, and the wilderness as we increase in number and extend our range. Soon the whole world will be a huge concrete and plastic jungle.

We may keep the DNA safe so that in saner times it might be reconstituted into living organisms.

One day, when we’ve become wiser and more civilised, there might be a programme to reinstate nature. I’m not sure I would completely approve. Designed wilderness is a poor substitute but perhaps it will be better than nothing.

If we survive that long, that is.

The rhino is doomed because of superstition and money. You may as well use nail filings as rhino horn. They are exactly the same keratin. There is no medicinal value. It does not give you the horn. Yet the customers will pay. The rhinos will pay and the hunters get paid. That is how decisions in this world get made.

A Life On Our Planet – David Attenborough

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Opher

A Life On Our Planet – David Attenborough

I’m reading this incredible biography of David Attenborough. It shows us just how much we have lost and how much more we are going to lose if we do not act.

For any deniers it should be compulsory reading.

Year	World population	Carbon in the atmosphere in parts per million	Remaining wilderness
1937	2.3 billion	280	66%
1954	2.7 billion	310	64%
1960	3 billion	315	62%
1968	3.5 billion	323	59%
1971	3.7 billion	326	58%
1978	4.3 billion	335	55%
1989	5.1 billion	353	49%
1997	5.9 billion	360	46%
2020	7.8 billion	415	35%

It is incredible to reflect back to times in the past and read records. Life on the planet was plentiful. What we now have are the vestiges of what was once around. We have destroyed the bulk of it.

The incredibly complex web of life is being systematically taken apart. Aspects are so interwoven and specialized, having taken millions of years to develop, that there comes a point where it all just fails.

When that happens soil becomes sterile, oceans stagnant, oxygen not replenished, climate changes and life on the planet is no longer possible – at least not as we would recognize it.

The bacteria would survive.

It would have to start all over again.