Green Or Golden Age

When was that golden age for which you yearn? A perfect Eden? where we’d yet to learn To conquer and to dominate the land And Mother Nature held the upper hand Did Earth confer a blessing or disdain? When life for most held hunger fear and pain Would you prefer to work from dawn ‘til night To barely feed your own if there’s no blight Would we not take from Earth its carbon treasure That might then be our choice - resulting measure A living: hard and brutish till truncated Though Earth crust exploitation be abated In wave on wave wild nature vectors veer Forever repetitious changes steer A cyclic challenge we may seek to stay In vain protest against eternal fray Though we must face, confront all strife revealed Why inculpate what cannot be repealed What if that blessed life-affirming vapour That all green life on Earth has need to savour With increase, plants and trees the more to nourish Unintended consequence: all life to flourish How ironic: that which many seek to ban Could bring a golden age to life of man Chosen subject for contest: Energy dependancy