EARTH DAY 2008
We still have all those people
Who say, our Earth is not in trouble
Who want to burn the fossil fuels
So their profits, more than double.
The oil and the coal companies
Don’t care about the rest of us
They just care about their bottom line
Say, “There’s no need for all this fuss!”
Those in some other foreign nations
Who burn their coal and cut their trees
Don’t care at all, about what’s right
And they do exactly, as they please.
And, we aren’t too much better
With all our great technology
We could have some alternatives
To make some things, pollution free.
Yet, we try bad things like Ethanol
Raise the price of corn, sky high
Pay more subsidies to farmers
While Earth’s people, starve and die.
We were/are the “Industrial Nation”
Who brought us here, to this brink
Too many times, we didn’t care
And many more, we didn’t think!
Already too late for some species
Like, Polar Bears and many more
While we waste all our resources
On things like, the illegal, Iraq War.
The ice melts as the Oceans rise
And Land will quickly go away
To crowd our populations more
And more Wars, the price, we’ll pay!
We can’t provide for those we have
There’s almost seven billion, now
With seven million more, each month
How to feed them? Who knows how?
Our Children and their Children
Will have a very dire future
If we, the stewards of this World
Don’t step up and try to find a cure.
We must admit, there’s a problem
And try to use some common sense
Believe, all of us are in real danger
And must wage, a common defense.
So, this Earth Day, do something
To make this Earth a better place
If we would all do, our fair share
We just might save, the Human Race!