Going Green

GOING GREEN The colour that evokes so much reverence today Is the standard for those whose actions Out value their words To be conscious of the harm of surviving Is to some an aware and care philosophy The new black is thus green A fashionable craze where All may not be as it first seems There is so much one has to do It may sometimes appear that it is A policy advantageous to only a few A right pain for most A baton to beat those who do not yet conform A way to meddle in man’s right to use Earth’s resources as he pleases Organic is best they trumpet quite loudly Yet the building blocks of this claim Are on occasion easily slain Only thing it is sure of doing Is sending your money down the drain Being ecologically conscience is Maybe just a con the middling classes blindly envelop Them who supposedly keep this world upright And who think they must lead the fight To prevent man’s earthly scar inducing blight Not everyone wishes to live clean Consumption to them will Always be king Irrespective of the effects on the Planets too sensitive skin The universally accepted damage to Our earthly continuity is not enough For us to change At a time when profits from all of Gaia’s resources is king An expensive hobby is this earth hugging fantasy To care is to spend wildly And to think up no street cred policy That is loudly praised By the prohibition society Isn’t doing as you please Part of our innate liberty? Is economic gain the only aim of those who Sell us a wish for earthly longevity? Must advisors cost so much And harass us so incessantly? Policies abound that do mean well Aims are lofty yet have little inbuilt longevity The man who uses too much is now the modern leper A demon created by activist who Are often immune to the effects Of their own need to live Their zealous witch hunts A right sin Air miles do tell a long story The disadvantages most often quoted With no space for the economic and social advantages That trade does bring Selfishness is ecology’s new skin Co2 emissions and greenhouse gasses Do heat up the debate Mangled by special interest And lobbyists’ obsession for contortuous spin Should we always have to appear to care About our future when now is best And tomorrow may never get the chance To lighten our despair? No one man Nor an individual policy Can save a planet almost on its knees Be conscious of your actions and its varied effects Do live and be as good or green as you see best