Though I accept that our planet’s fruits are finite and failing, <br />The rate of population growth rapidly rising, <br />And that somewhere along a line I’ll probably not live to see <br />This is doubtless going to force mankind <br />To do very much more with very much less than it would like it to be, <br />I reckon our problem’s got more to do with distribution <br />Than overall resource diminution: <br />It’s always those with next-to-nothing <br />Who end up with nothing next. <br /> <br />Whilst we are arguing how to ‘draw in our horns a bit’, <br />Cut back, cut down and ‘live within our means’, <br />‘They’… <br />[Meaning anyone that is not ‘we’, ie: <br />Anyone out of sight, <br />Out of mind and <br />Outside our ‘I’m Alright Jack’ island mentalities], <br />This ‘They’, <br />This growing majority, <br />Lack not only the means to live, <br />But the meanest of means to survive. <br /> <br />I don’t see this getting any better – do you? <br /> <br />With ‘Globalisation’ and ‘Global Warming’ on the world’s agenda, <br />Our ‘First World’ will be watching with one eye <br />Its money literally evaporate ‘into thin air’ - <br />[Going up, but for once, not ‘in smoke’] <br />In hope of slowing the rate CO2 makes it thicker; <br />Whilst the other will weep bitter tears at the sight of jobs hemorrhaging Eastwards <br />As our own industrialists move technology and investment <br />To sources of lower
