Polar Bears Are Gone Now Too

How we love our fossil fuels

We’re addicted to the stuff.

Canadian Association of Petro-Producers boast

Our Tar-sands are the best, but

Pipelines across rivers are needed to sell the rest.

 

And driving Ford F-150 truck

From home to office and back again

Or toting hockey bag alone to practice

Makes it the most popular vehicle in Canada

Which doesn’t make much sense.

 

How we love our crap and stuff,

So much designer this and that,

Private storage now in short supply;

Mountains of garbage clog our dumps

Reduce long lost out to reuse, recycle - sucks.

 

Headlines shout and warn us of

Ever more frequent ferocious storms,

Of wind and snow, of glacial melt,

Floods, fires, food shortages and drought

Record levels of extinction about. 

 

One day too soon our kids will ask us- “why?”

 

Polar bears are gone now

All that’s left are bones...



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Mountain Institution