They Want To Make You Hurt, Part I

They told me back when I was young to conserve water for the Earth, wash your clothes less, take short showers, or else the whole planet would hurt. They said not to use that hairspray, that would cause an ozone hole, and solar winds would sweep on in, consuming all of the south pole. They said we’d starve in the eighties, called it the population bomb, we could do nothing to stop it, our resources would soon be gone. They said the planet was too hot, we had to not use energy, or everything would go extinct, and there’d be no icebergs at sea. They said our animals pollute, out ancient foods no longer good, eat vegetables, protein powders, and other stuff that tastes like wood. They said our vehicles must go, they burn the oil, don’t you see? There’s no need for so much travel, stay where you are and be happy! But I live up in the northeast, and there is water everywhere, bad sanitation makes you sick, for live and flees I do not care. And I never once used hairspray, but those big holes in the ozone grow and shrink despite all we do, working by strange rules all their own. All the talk of great food shortage couldn’t withstand Norman Borlaug, forty years on they still pitch this, will not admit they got it wrong. The ice caps remain where they are, yet they still shout, ‘Less energy!’ As if us folks here in cold lands will quietly sit back and freeze. And time has shown that eating flesh is required for true brain health, the vegans shrivel and age young, do they want that for us as well? And if the oil they despise no longer could be used in cars, food could not move to where we live, millions of people would just starve... CONCLUDES IN PART II.