John Knight - Conservation Crisis

ABLATION the annual ice lost from a shrinking Glacier
BRAIDED STREAM one choked with sediment
CYCLE OF EROSION faster so much pacier
DESERT PAVEMENT once Oasis now infertile and spent.

EARTHQUAKES much more frequent on our tortured Planet
FLOOD TIDES now more viscious due to Climate Change
GEOCHEMICALIC CYCLES becoming more erratic
HUMUS in our soil - below sustainment range.

INFILTRATION CHEMICALS sterilise our earth
JEALOUSY reduces our plots of Fertile Land
KILLING useful predetors lets worse ones come to birth
LIFE ON EARTH is streched and strained - like an elastic band!

MARINE LIFE is affected by endless Acid Rain
NEEP TIDES keep on rising causing local flood
OZONE LAYERS - once depleted - will never come come again
POTABLE FRESH WATER has a sediment of Mud!

QUESTIONS asked - but are there answers? NONE!
RESOURCES more & more exploited every day
SUBSIDENCE caused by mining - fertile acres - gone!
TIDAL SURGE has washed my Grandad's village clean away!

UNCONFINED EXPANSION of the Urban Sprawl
VOLCANIC ASH polluting air and waterways
WORLDWIDE EPIDEMICS threatening us all
X-RAYS showing clearly how our inner core decays!

YELLOW is the colour of of my dry and barren fields
ZONES of wasted wasteland my crop no longer yields!

Thos of us who are Conservation Scientists only give Planet Earth about two hundred more years of sustainability - as one of the few Living Planets left in the Universe. Unless the Whole Human Race accepts their God given responsibility as 'Custodians of Planet Earth'.

John Knight

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