Carefree Times On The Road To Our Extinction

We increased our numbers far beyond the carrying capacity of our native planet

We fouled the water and poisoned the air that, after all, only sustained our very lives

Our once rich soil has been blown away or contaminated due to our inept corporate farming methods

We poached the charismatic mega-fauna to extinction even as we destroyed their habitat

We have gouged the earth to burn the coal that sullies the lovely atmosphere…and our kid’s brains

We swarm upon each other in endless fool wars with our dear mother earth as but collateral damage

We cut the shading trees for firewood or for quick profits building things not meant to last

We dump our toxic wastes into the rivers that we have channelized and dammed. Yet still drink from

Our great cities appear as nasty pockmarks from the tiny vantage points we built out in space

We decimated the great whales and spiked the seals milk with exotic chemicals

Our miracle plastic litter drifts throughout the vast ocean basins and no one is responsible

We’ll melt the polar icecaps and turn the mountain glaciers into dry and naked rock

We have carelessly torched our vast reserves of petroleum and natural gas and released their CO₂

Most of us live in ignorance and poverty in spite of our noble free economies

The poorest among us bring forth the greatest number of new offspring into our overpopulated world

We perpetually delude ourselves with petty gods, sex, work, drugs, kids, food and patriotism

The once-beneficent rain is now filled with poisonous acid thanks to our virtuous industrial efforts

Deserts encroach more each year given our ravenous goats, constant firewood need & CO₂ emissions

We look forward to our lord’s infinite paradise after lives spent blindly pursuing individual happiness

The unsustainability of our societies shall not be altered should it perturbs our daily lives...at all

We make loud noise in everything we do, never even aware of how very still we really should remain

We slaughter each other over petty disagreements between our stale yet vapid religious fantasies

Our emissions silently destroy that portion of the atmosphere protecting us from deadly cosmic rays

We haphazardly introduce exotic species that wreak havoc upon finely-balanced native ecosystems

In our prideful ignorance our fictional god anoints only us, of all species, with a so-called eternal soul

We prefer catchphrases and demagogues to personal responsibility and inherited wisdom

We waste trillions on a military whose sole purpose is to kill people and destroy infrastructure

Our road to extinction is built upon ignorance, greed, hubris, intolerance and shortsightedness

We breed our meat animals to be weak and stupid and we exterminate all their wild predators

We unwittingly select for the strongest microbes with our anti-bacterial cleansers

We find fake news sound bites more effective vote-getters than reason and understanding

We fill endless toxically-leaching dumps with tons and tons of re-usable and like-new castoffs

Our batteries, paints and lawn sprays wind up right back in our own drinking water

We scatter lead and mercury which dulls the potentials of our own precious children

Our economic system is purposely blind to the fact that it totally depends on the global ecosystem

Though we tramp blindly down the road to extinction, we thank god above it’s not the road to hell