Selling the Future
Roll up! Roll up!
We’re giving it away!
Get a bargain! Make a killing!
We’re giving it away!
Don’t miss out on this bargain!
It won’t come round again.
Your chance to make a fortune
You only need half a brain!
Buy yourself a trophy!
Shoot a chimp for fun!
From the safety of your truck
Exercise that gun!
Clear a big plantation!
Get rid of all those trees!
Lots of money to be made
From such a clever wheeze!
Open cast a mine or two
Dump your spoil at sea.
Who cares about a fish or two?
Plenty dosh for me!
Roll up! Roll up!
We’re selling your tomorrow!
When it’s all gone
We’re not certain what will follow.
But who cares anyway?
Who cares about the world?
If every last creature’s dead
And every last tree’s felled?
Roll up! Roll up!
We’re giving it away!
Get a bargain! Make a killing!
We’re giving it away!
Opher – 6.5.2019
The mad consumer cry for endless expansion in order to make some fools wealthy beyond imagination. The mad spiraling population growth. The mad clearance of jungle, draining of wetlands. The mad spraying of fields. The mad production of CO2. It’s all totally mad!!!!