Save The Planet

Save The Planet

Save the planet, Janet
That means you,
Not some fat cat on Intelsat
Spouting platitudes like glue;

It's your own human nature
That you'll just have to change,
Passive despair uses up the air
And shortens your mind's range

It's in your own back garden
This revolution starts,
With a bit of aquaponics
Made of recycled parts,

Not useless histrionics
Or television blah,
It's your own fair deeds that pull out the weeds
And get an electric car;

There's too much talk, no action
It's like a mental mange;
It's you and your reaction,
It's you who's got to change;

For every couple of minutes
Another species dies,
The atmosphere is in the bin
And that is hardly wise...

It's on your bloody bike, Ike,
Get on an eco bus,
It's what you do, not what you like,
The problem's US.

R.C.Appleton 2011.