The Amazon is Dying

Picture courtesy of Voices of Youth

“We must change almost everything in our current societies.
The bigger your carbon footprint - the bigger your moral duty.
The bigger your platform - the bigger your responsibility.
Adults keep saying: 'We owe it to the young people to given them hope.'
But I don't want your hope.
I don't want you to be hopeful.
I want you to panic.
I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.
And then I want you to act.
I want you to act as you would in a crisis.
I want you to act as if our house is on fire.
Because it is.”
― Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Poem By Michael Stolt

The Amazon is Dying

The Amazon is dying

to give space for this art,

space for growing cane and cows;

the world here wants them cheap,

but not too cheap that we

loose our sleep,

over children labouring their

childhood away to feed ours.

free trade is a great idea -  

they are free to trade with us.

In pursuit of profit

the world has gone mad:

Fish for shrimp in Scotland,

Peel the things in Thailand,

Ship them back to Scotland,

Export them to the world,

Destroying local trade and

Environment for your haul;

globalisation this is called.

To give space for life – mine,

yours, the world is dying.