The earth cries out for mitigation of climate change.
Australia sells more coal.
We’ve ordered 72 joint strike fighters, just in case.
For the first time brave Cuba loses 27 souls.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology predicts
But who tells us to stop growth and greed.
Cuba’s an extremely poor communist country
that somehow sends doctors all over the world.
Venezuela revolts because the rich have lost power
And Hugo Chavez and President Maduro cared.
Australia does secret deals with East Timor’s oil.
Poor Bangladesh cares for refugees, and we?
Manus and Nauru torture camps and a return fare.
We have extincted plenty of plants and creatures;
Mined mother earth, logged beautiful rainforests,
ours and lots of others’;
and attempted genocide of our first peoples.
It’s evil, not just stupidity.
Curiously we don’t call them crayfish anymore
In the beautiful SE coast of Australia.
After drought unfortunately they get soft shells.
They’re rock lobsters, busily adapting?
Never mind, there’s still a fast buck or two there.