Friday, July 08, 2005
Dear Mother
Dear Mother,
What has happened to the Earthly garden of Eden we inherited? The unchecked consumption of billions of humans has ruined the Earth's ecological health. Still the corporations advertise their societal awareness. Deforestation has annihilated all but the most forcefully protected reserves. Still the logging companies insist they are environmentally conscious. Millions upon millions of species are extinct, chewed up by environmental destruction. Still the strip mining companies maintain they compensate for the damages. Runway global warming has melted the ice caps, flooding coastal cities across the globe. Still the fossil fuel industry denies the link between carbon emissions and fossil fuels. Ten million people die each year in resource wars. Still the militarism of the world continues. One hundred million humans are in prison. Still they write more laws and build more prisons. Three billion humans live in homeless starvation. Yet no longer do people mourne them, as it is a struggle for most people to feed themselves. The sky has turned black with pollutants, and flowers die as soon as they bloom. Yet the chemical factories refuse to stop pumping. Ultracapitalists live in rich leisured seclusion, controlling the world from their personal media machines. Yet the other 98% kill each other for scraps of food. The bad in human nature- unchecked greed, lust for power, and callousness- has triumphed. The dark days are omnipresent. What in God's name happened before I was born? Was the world always this way?
Love,
Melinda
What has happened to the Earthly garden of Eden we inherited? The unchecked consumption of billions of humans has ruined the Earth's ecological health. Still the corporations advertise their societal awareness. Deforestation has annihilated all but the most forcefully protected reserves. Still the logging companies insist they are environmentally conscious. Millions upon millions of species are extinct, chewed up by environmental destruction. Still the strip mining companies maintain they compensate for the damages. Runway global warming has melted the ice caps, flooding coastal cities across the globe. Still the fossil fuel industry denies the link between carbon emissions and fossil fuels. Ten million people die each year in resource wars. Still the militarism of the world continues. One hundred million humans are in prison. Still they write more laws and build more prisons. Three billion humans live in homeless starvation. Yet no longer do people mourne them, as it is a struggle for most people to feed themselves. The sky has turned black with pollutants, and flowers die as soon as they bloom. Yet the chemical factories refuse to stop pumping. Ultracapitalists live in rich leisured seclusion, controlling the world from their personal media machines. Yet the other 98% kill each other for scraps of food. The bad in human nature- unchecked greed, lust for power, and callousness- has triumphed. The dark days are omnipresent. What in God's name happened before I was born? Was the world always this way?
Love,
Melinda
# posted by David Spoey @ 7/08/2005 07:45:00 PM 
