Planet Killers '1' Vs Candy Stripers '2'
(America’s Mutant Megalomaniacs)
All Scientists know that our planet is warming,
No question remains too whose ox will get gored!
A contributing fact is earth's CO2's rising,
That surface of Venus melts lead not ignored.
The Venus disaster pre-destined to happen,
Though evidence says once had oceans like us,
And in millions of years we'll face similar future:
Should sun get much hotter? Run over by bus!
Though sun remains stable, and breathing space likely,
If warming continues, a problem for sure.
For our food comes from crops that depend on the weather
And fields must get moisture for us to endure.
Whatever our future, a crisis is brewing,
When millions get forced from sea towns in the main
Earth ten degrees hotter (keep fuel rate consumed now),
One hundred years needed to access this pain.
At four percent, (3) we make one-sixth all emissions,
At nineteen percent, (3) China's close to one third,
Which implies as a people we're far the worse villain,
One hundred years crime wave still gives world 'the Bird.'
Do immigrants flock here to share in our freedoms,
Or sneak 'cross our borders to share what we stole?
Is it time to 'fess up' while we still have some options,
Examine our purpose, not prostitute goal?
Brian Johnston
April 28, 2018
Poet’s Notes:
(1) The leadership of current Republican Party, Alt-Right, and Tea Party.
(2) Naïve liberals who still think there are people worth saving? To
quote 'Pogo' in the famous cartoon strip by Walt Kelly, "We have met the enemy, and he is us!" All humans are culpable!
(3) The US is 4% of the world population with 16% of the pollution,
China is close to 19% with about 28% of the pollutants, but if we had
the same number of people, our contribution to earth’s greenhouse gases
would be over 50% of the total problem.
Copyright © Brian Johnston | Year Posted 2018
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