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Topic: A lament about global warming

This piece came to me today, it's about global warming and asks who is to blame for it. Is it the common people who buy cars, or turn on light bulbs? Or is it the people who make them but wont look for more environmentally friendly alternatives for fear of losing their profits.
The sooner the world comes to realise that the Earth comes before the rich "fat cats" getting richer, the safer the world will be for our children and our children's children.

The World To Life Again.                                   
by Phill Williams.

Sense the atmosphere take a burning change.
Feel my hair  stand on  end.
There is  something here, permeates  the air.
Will we  still be here when it  ends?
Can you  see the sun, can you  feel it's heat?
Is there  more to  life than just  death?
When the  morning comes bring the  world to life.. again.

The hands of time sweep across my face.
As they march through times of change.
The corn will rise and the forest dies.
As all things that man has made.
And the sun will fade as the reapers blade.
Takes the good as it takes the bad.
Will the morning come, bring the world to life....again.

We pride ourselves with our techno-life.
There's a chip for each road we take.
“Your killing the world�  our governments say.
Put us back to the medieval days.
While the sun revolves in it's endless track.
Though pollution has dimmed it's light.
Can the morning bring back the world to life....again?

So tell me this O industrialist.
Who is to blame for this threat?
When the poles all melt and and all that's left.
Are the mountains above the sea.
Make the poor people pay for the mess that you've made.
As you churn out more muck in the air.
And as we humans die, yes you, you and I.
When we're gone, can the world start again?
Can the morning bring back the world to life....again?

12th October 2009.

Ask not what Chordie can do for you, but what you can do for Chordie.

Phill Williams's Website

  • buvvy
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Re: A lament about global warming

Phill, brilliantly said. Exceptional writing. Global warming is real and needs to be addressed immediately. The so called leaders who ignore this are a danger to all of us.

Keep on Rocking and remember Animals Feel Pain Too.
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Re: A lament about global warming

Gosh this is sooooooo good Phil.

I watched a documentary  recently about indigenous people of the amazon. A sad and sorry tale it was. Greed never loves, cares or learns anything.
We also have our own problems with Shell here in Mayo.
http://corribgas.net/2009/07/13/the-peo … overnment/

Great stuff Phil

Old Doll.

Why Blend in with the Crowd ? When you were made to stand out !
  • From: The Land Of Song
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Re: A lament about global warming

thanks lena and buvvy,

global warming is a big worry, not so much for this generation, but certainly for the ones that will follow.

the point i'm trying to put across is that; even though this problem is not of our making, we lower classes are just consumers for the products made with little regard for the health and future of this planet or the life forms that infest it! but we are expected to lay down and accept the blame for buying and using said products, regardless of the pollutants and poisons they pump into the air during production.

and all in the cause of "growth" it seems that the businessmen and bankers can get away with murder as long as they keep the "dollars, yen, pounds, euros etc... rolling in. and what do they get out of it? while the rest of the world suffers with recession, no jobs and where there are jobs they pay minimum wage= less food on the table...they continue to cash their bonus cheques.

what's the old saying?  print and be damned. their tenet is "rape the world and be knighted"

sorry for the rant

phill

Ask not what Chordie can do for you, but what you can do for Chordie.

Phill Williams's Website

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Re: A lament about global warming

Phill, that was gooooood rant. And accurate.

Keep on Rocking and remember Animals Feel Pain Too.