Inaction and Inertia

Images of beaches strewn with the slippery bodies of sealife slicked still, slip away.

Aerial photographs show the Amazon stripped, bare and over exposed and we can’t bare to look.

Close ups of farmers fighting for survival remain far, flung aside.

The message of the plastic bottles littering the sands are read hastily then hurriedly tossed.

The headlines scream and shout at us.

The scientists and ecologists have warned and now they write with urgency even despondency that politicians skirt and brands wash green.

The columns of statistics rise and dissipate as plumes of sooty smoke.

Our gaze is averted and our ears attuned to the clamour of our busy lives and the roar of modern priority.

Our slogans and tokens remain background noise.

We nod along but we don’t sing.

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