The earth is damaged beyond repair.

Some protest, but most don’t really care.

Our citizens pay nature homage

By dumping fast food plastic garbage.

With blind faith, we trust our science,

Which tells us we are in compliance,

And that the answers are all just up ahead,

Right before we’re all dead.

They’ve lost the soil, poisoned the air, and changed the weather,

I think it’s time real citizens banded together.

We’re playing havoc with a delicate balance,

Going for broke with no safety allowance.

We should live with the earth in symbiosis,

Instead, we are rude guests of a patient hostess.

Our scientists are terribly clever,

They make polyethylene trash that lasts forever.

They sold us the gospel of interdependence,

Then we traded our survival skills for convenience.

I say now, with a feeling of defiance,

I think good neighbors should form an alliance.

All the essentials are beyond our control.

Products and pensions, we’re told, are more worthy goals.

Sophisticated sellers teach us greed for greed,

So we waste our hours to buy junk we don’t need.

The complicated machinery is nice, but not dependable,

With problems and financial solutions that seem unendable.

Before we’ve earned our keep, we’re dead from heart attack or cancer.

I look back, and around, and think there must be an answer.

People of reason, let’s form an alliance

Of neighbors to foster and learn self-reliance.