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In the 1960’s all around me were cheerful chants inviting us all to ‘Make Love not War’ John Lennon asked us to give peace a chance, some joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. We all wanted earnestly to save the environment. I inhale this polluted air and wonder what has happened - why has it gone asunder Now, our legacy to our future generations is an earth that has been raped, robbed of her fruitfulness until her soil is barren so, we can genetically modify food to eat cause animal cruelty for production of meat Now, fish are being choked and shredded to pieces by hazards we dispose of in the rivers and seas and they are far from being the only dammed species who are being erased for the sake of human supremacy. Earth is rebelling, her weathers have gone into a frenzy raging ravenous bush fires consuming precious lives, animal, human, plant nothing in its vexed path survives. Ferocious storms flooding the earth, threatening to drown out communities, cruelly devastating. Is it too late to realise that the fumes from our cars the cigarettes we smoke, the waste that we dump so recklessly the spiteful, uncaring ways we mistreat the environment leaving solutions to be found each successive government. We can still see the blue sky on a good day we can still breathe air, though not so fresh we can still enjoy the beauty of flowers and hear birdsong, but, for how long? Now, our troubled youth are killing each other they see no tomorrow on the blurred horizon. Younger generations are trying to rescue their future to salvage their legacy from the rubble we have created. As for making love not war in this world, this world of today peace stands no chance and love is just a word of four letters.
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