Forgive Us Mother Earth

For decades now We, your children, dear mother-earth, Have been stabbing you, Each year Each day Each hour Each second, Causing you to bleed profusely, while, We indifferent to your suffering were: Watching Laughing Drinking Dancing and Having lots of fun, For We thought your blood was inexhaustible and That you would bleed forever, without any consequence on Our own life, But Slowly, we came to realize that you are as mortal as we are, Subject to the same laws of growth and decay, A shocking thought, indeed, for us! But Despite this realization We never stopped hurting you: Your animals Your forests Your rivers Your lakes Your seas Your oceans You see, dear mother earth, We have sacrificed all you have held dear for millions Of years on the altar of our egoism and that of Our vanity. Now, As we see you lie on your deathbed, We, your conceited and spoiled children, Have decided to give you the chance To stop your bleeding To end your torture and your agony, to have time To recover. Yes, we know, Our action is not out of magnanimity or love for you, But mainly out of fear, we might destroy our blasphemous species That has overstepped the limits that our Lord and creator Has put from the moment of his creation. For that I for one, on my knees, humbly, plead for your forgiveness, For my participation in this horrid and Macabre crime of Matricide! (C) Demetrios Trifiatis 23 April 2016 UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The historic agreement on climate change marked a major milestone on Friday with a record 175 countries signing on to it on opening day. With the planet heating up to record levels, sea levels rising and glaciers melting, the pressure to have the Paris Agreement enter into force and to have every country turn its words into deeds was palpable at the U.N. signing ceremony. "The world is in a race against time," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his opening speech. "The era of consumption without consequences is over."