Apart from Attenborough and Charles, the only ones speaking with any credibility are the young activists and young indigenous representatives. Otherwise, as Greta says, it’s pretty much Blah Blah Blah! All promises and wishful thinking but you just know that when they get back home, those billions promised to the poor countries to compensate for our industrial successes will simply vanish into well lined pockets and offshore investments.
Thanks John Peachey.
Time we cared
Ice is melting – water rising
Up to their knees
And still denying.
Bird croaks its last fanfare
Frog’s last gasp
Of heated air.
We carry on without a care.
Heat increases – animals frying
Floods and droughts –
Not surprising.
Still they believe scientists are lying.
Concrete and plastic – land and sea,
I’m alright Jack,
Don’t worry about me!
Trophy hunting – forest clearing,
Sounds to me
That no-ones hearing!
At least that’s what I’m a fearin’.
Making room for bird and tree
Before they pass
Into history.
Buried under life’s debris.
But it’s always the cash that counts,
Stashed away
In large amounts.
Whatever they do, it’s the cash,
As long as they’ve got
Their share of the stash.
I think we’re heading for one ginormous crash.
Opher – 22.18.2019
I wrote this for the politically motivated climate change deniers! May they wake up soon!
Acid
As acid etches its way into seas and minds
Bleaching coral, jumbling thoughts,
Ignoring signs.
Ignoring warnings
Of global warming.
As new technologies provides the way
To shut the mines with solar power, batteries
And wind turbines.
We shouldn’t be stalling
While nature is taking such a mauling.
Opher 7.6.2019
I wrote this in response to the deniers of global warming and environmental catastrophe. Their minds are jumbled with political propaganda and intransigent ideologies.
In my life I have seen friends of mine become acid casualties and I’ve seen the effects of acid seawater on coral.
Somehow, to me, the jumbled minds of environmental catastrophe deniers have something in common with the wrecked minds of the casualties of acid overuse.
We have the means to put things right. What holds us back is the will – our own minds, our own selfish greed. Our minds are messed up. The acid of selfishness and greed has eaten away our humanity.
Do we care enough?
Three Haikus for Nature
Sun, clouds, drought and flood
Change in a billion strange ways
As carbon traps heat
Wind in tight circles
Spins the sinister raindrops
Into shards of ice
Ripping roofs, mud slides
Violent nature speaks loud
In fury at us
Opher – 9.9.2021
I wrote these to be read together.
We are at the start of an epoch of change. Our activities have altered the planet. Ironically the future is not looking conducive for human beings.
Climate change is not only bad for us; it is also bad for many other species.
Our greed and stupidity is looking to become our downfall.
It is as if we are beginning to experience nature’s fury directed at us – storms, floods, heatwaves, hurricanes and droughts. We are reaping the rewards for our actions.
Too many people! Too much greed! Too much damage!! Too little time to put it right!!
We’re creating the future.
Try looking at science and not what is being pumped out by right-wing organisations with vested interests.
Try looking at what is really going on around you.
These fires, floods, droughts and storms happening all around the world have a reason – it’s global warming.
Stop getting your information off fake sources.
Stop discounting mainstream news just because politicians tell you to.
Science and experts know what they are talking about far better than lying Trump.
The Crash
500 M.P.H.
Car and rock
Slow mo
Frame by frame
Paint
Bumper
From split seconds
Into decades
Radiator
Engine
Crumple zones
Decades into centuries
Steering wheel
Into chest
Engine into seat
Exploding
Into inferno
Burning out
No survivors
Blazing wreck
Humans
Planet.
Opher 20.11.2018
This is not about a car crash at all. I was merely using that as a metaphor.
The clue is in the last two lines.
