GOING GREEN

Consciousness that’s often madness
Theories with inherent sadness
Campaigners that are often joyless

The colour that evokes so much reverence today
Is the standard for those whose actions
Out value their words

To be conscious of the harm of surviving
Is to some an aware and care philosophy
The new black is thus green
A fashionable craze where
All may not be as it first seems

There is so much one has to do
It may sometime appear that it is
A policy advantageous to only a few
A right pain for most
A baton to beat those who do not yet conform
A way to meddle in man’s right to use
Earth’s resources as he pleases

Organic is best they trumpet quite loudly
Yet the building blocks of this claim
Are on occasion easily slain
Only thing it is sure of doing
Is sending your money down the drain

Being ecologically conscience is
Maybe just a con the middling classes blindly envelop
Them who supposedly keep this world upright
And who think they must lead the fight
To prevent man’s earthly scar inducing blight

Not everyone wishes to live clean
Consumption to them will
Always be king
Irrespective of the effects on the
Planets too sensitive skin

The universally accepted damage to
Our earthly continuity is not enough
For us to change
At a time when profits from all of Gaia’s resources is king
An expensive hobby is this earth hugging fantasy

To care is to spend wildly
And to think up no street cred policy
That is loudly praised
By the prohibition society

Policies abound that do mean well
Aims are lofty yet have little inbuilt longevity
The man who uses too much is now the modern leper
A demon created by activist who
Are often immune to the effects
Of their own need to live
Their zealous witch hunts
A right sin

Air miles do tell a long story
The disadvantages most often quoted
With no space for the economic and social advantages
That trade does bring
Selfishness is ecology’s new cape
Co2 emissions and greenhouse gasses
Do heat up a debate
Mangled by special interest
And lobbyists obsession for contortuous spin

Should we always have to appear to care
About our future when now is best
And tomorrow may never get the chance
To lighten our despair?

No one man
Nor an individual policy
Can save a planet almost on its knees
Be conscious of your actions and its varied effects
Do live and be as good or green as you see best