Mankind is supreme,mankind is strong, but if we do not change our ways soon,mankind will be gone, Civilisation's price is much too high, start cutting back now or we will all certainly die, Global warming is upon us and escalating fast, Will we have the foresight and strength to learn lessons from the past? And what can history teach us of once great civilisations, who indeed had their own trials and tribulations, One thing is blatantly obvious however, it is a definite no! no!.... to tamper with the weather. Crop circles appear each and every year. Is there a message? In code maybe,that we are meant to hear. Is Gaia trying to tell us she is in such dire pain? Or will she simply just end up deluging us with biblical rains. Mother Earth is changing in ways we cannot know, It is man's greedy intervention that made this sad fact so. The ice caps are melting and the oceans will overflow, extremes of season and temperature will come blow after cataclysmic blow. The ozone layer is disappearing,affecting our balance and ecology in unknown ways. This danger on it's own will severely limit our number of days. The imbalance of wealth has kept billions poor, while the fat rich in their ivory towers,keep the key to our survival locked firmly in the door. The middle class on upwards became "green" thinking it was the seen thing to do, buying ozone friendly deodorants and animal free make-up and shampoo. But radical changes need urgent implementation, like banning the use of fossil fuels in every single nation. Why continue to build bypasses and roads, and fourteen lane motorways,to take increasingly bigger roads, to accommodate millions more vehicles before the decades out. When will this madness stop?I want to hear you shout. The powers that be that rule you and me, have known the truth for a long while, As they maintain their dodgy reassuring smiles. They hide the figures and the facts and continue to fail to act. To reclaim our streets,do we have to fight? Surely we have the inalienable right, to breath fresh air,everywhere,and to try and convince the Establishment to care. The poisoning of our population's health is the path for some,to great wealth. But they are deluding themselves with short term gain, which will only result in long term pain. As I write these words a cease-fire is shattered, leaving London's docklands battered. The gun, the bomb,the violence,are not the way, but it looks regrettably like they are here to stay, Which makes my message even stronger, we can't tolerate this callous indifference and hatred any longer. This is the attitude that is leading us to disaster. Are these madmen in such a hurry? Lord knows we couldn't get there any faster. Mankind is childish in his way,despite the miracle technology today. We treat so many things with little respect,surely we can no longer expect, to be free from any blame,and experience no shame. The prophecies of Nostradamus say nation will rise against nation, and when hunger and famine are the cause for conflict, you can be certain it will end in nuclear conflagration. Overpopulation is getting worse day by day, what can we do?I hope to hear you say,one day. But it is too late,I regret to inform,the half-way point has been passed, the ultimate die is cast. If survival means anything to you prepare yourself and well, for soon the day approaches when we will go through a living hell. We know not how the end will come about,be it great famine, world-wide axis shift,or drought. Maybe a comet will strike from heaven knows where,sending billions of tons of dust and water into the air, The graveyards that will be our cities is a bleak picture I know, but will probably be submerged beneath hundreds of feet of water ,or snow. When the Day of Judgement arrives to lay us all low, then man will finally realise,that what he reaps he will surely sow. I am afraid it is too late for us,the time is near to hand, a few short years remain to us,and our once great pleasant land. When Humankind are gone leaving the Earth to recover, it will be up to the next civilisation to discover what mistakes were made by our generation, and treat the future Gaia with utmost veneration. Will the new man in a far off time need to swim and grow gills? Leaving the unenlightened,selfish and greedy to cower in the hills. Like Noah and his biblical Ark, only a few will survive and come through, And with the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, rebuild our civilisation anew. "Men go and come,but Earth abides" Ecclesiastes K.A.Funnel 1996
Reason for writing:
thoughts as the millenium lloms large.........
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