Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Impotently Green

Waste good water washing out tin cans as you watch us proudly throw theirs away
Buy that cute little hybrid which you could pull up inside our 9 passenger behemoths
Carry out your groceries in eco-evil cotton bags as 5 billion new plastic ones are tossed away
Pay extra for wind power as the Chinese open 2 dirty-tech coal-fired plants every week

Combine your trips to save gas and pass by the obese idling blankly in fast food drive-thru lines
Call for climate change action as neighbors fight it by simply adjusting their thermostats
Reduce your eco-footprints even as hordes of new middle class Asians join in over-consumption
Walk quietly in the woods listening as drunk, gas-powered wreckreationists roar by shouting

Screw in funny bulbs as their unblinking, high-watt nightlights obscure the entire night sky
Invest in a solar panel quickly blocked out by our new 5000 square ft McMansion
Cook meals from scratch at home as millions of us find it cheaper to graze at McDonalds
Pay more for grass-raised, antibiotic & feedlot-free meat that should cost less to produce

Forgo children while the impoverished uneducated drop more than their share upon you
Try helping to do more with less funding while our arms producers secure no-bid, cost-plus handouts
Pick up a bit of road litter as entire ocean basins fill with tons of our plastic trash
Fret over packaging as Chinese factories pay bribes to dump toxins into rivers every night

Worry over a sustainable future while our financial wizards achieve total market meltdown
Xeriscape your lawn to a scraggly brown even as 3rd world squatters turn vast tracts into desert
Save precious water as we waste billions of gallons from non-renewable fossil aquifers for free
Contribute to environmental watchdog groups as conglomerates efficiently strip-mine the seas

Watch as your careful recycling gets dumped or shipped back to Asia just to wrap more imports
Whine pointlessly for solar power as Big Coal revs up subsidized mountain top strip mining
Contribute to wildlife societies as 3 billion others suffer an abject, subhuman poverty
Listen to us pit the earth against family values to avoid so-called intrusive over-regulation

Demand sustainable economics even as we bail out the very financiers who ruined you
Just try asking us to consider the next thousand years when we only plan for the next quarter
Hear the under-employed snicker over climate worries in the wake of the Great Recession
Watch us laugh in incredulity at your proposals to CO2 tax gas up to $4 a gallon

Go about in heavy sweaters as we romp in shorts in their uninsulated trophy homes
Eat wilted veggies and healthy oils as we swill down and throw away factory fast food
Forgo new clothes for thrift stores which then have no donations to send overseas
Give so that stray dogs may live yet ignore the saved from abortion but unwanted, bastard children
Give that stray dogs may live as we ignore the unwanted, bastard children we saved from abortion

Take to heart our scornful braying against expensive mandated environmental restoration
Make those 20 steps to greener living that we undo daily before even getting to work
Carefully check the ingredients but remain unaware of their adulterated Asian sources
Take the long view of a spaceship earth in a dying world ADD’d on our get-rich-quick delusions

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