Eco-Embezzlers, Environmental Swindlers

For tiny royalties, conglomerates can rip the guts out of mountains for valuable metals and minerals

The spoils of their hard work are stacked and left behind in vast piles, wherever it is convenient

And as soon as the veins are played out, the mines are abandoned and they waltz away in bankruptcy

But the earth continues to bleed heavy metals into mountain creeks for as long as we will know

Their factory fishing fleets are simply a marvel of efficient modern 24x7 industrial production

They are able to stripmine vast areas of the ungoverned open ocean at their distant masters will

They vacuum the seas for trendy seafood fads until so few are left that they are not worth targeting

And in their wake toss back dead turtles, seals, dolphins, sharks and literally tons of other bycatch

Corporate agriculture sucks deeply from fossil water aquifers which took a million years to fill

They pay nothing except to run their pumps because such water is still a so-called free good

But those lowly private citizens whose wells now run dry have to pay to dig them deeper

And those to come wont bother, since all the irreplaceable water was sprayed into the hot dry wind

Coal-fired power plants thumb their noses at that over-regulating socialist government bureaucracy

Even though their mercury emissions have been proven to damage the brains of our little children

Meanwhile, their emissions sully our skies while bringing on a cataclysmic planetary warming

But it’s all smoothed out by Clean Coal advertising, climate change denial & the Jobs & Money pitch

Meat producers stuff their inputs with 70% of all antibiotics used, to make them fatten a little faster

Thus skillfully cutting the time their tortured charges must spend in costly but horridly filthy feedlots

There’s no charge for the awful smell or fee for fattening cows on subsidized corn they cannot digest
Their massive fecal outfall fouls the waters spreading newly-mutated antibiotic-resistant organisms

Real estate developers guide our progress with bulldozers, building cookie cutter tracts & strip malls

Farmland, wetlands and open space at last become economically productive under their direction

There are no extra taxes for converting such features into more hideous and unsustainable sprawl

And their older works, now deemed commercially unattractive, are left to turn to blighted eyesores

Lobbyists for patriotic defense oligarchy contractors compete furiously for cost-plus gov’t contracts

All wanting to build the next generation of overpriced weapons of mass eco-destruction

Their bloated corporate structures sucking up vast quantities of valuable engineering talent

Their costly marketing and influence campaigns guarantee huge annual increases in defense spending

Shortsighted American consumers buy gas-guzzling pickups & SUVs by the millions when gas is cheap

They waddle obesely about, most often alone, to jobs in cubicles far smaller then their $45k trucks

The beloved 13 MPG vehicular expressions of freedom spewing 19 lbs of CO₂ per gallon of fuel wasted

Of course, they need ladders to climb in and there’s really nowhere to put their groceries

Religion urges us to <guiltlessly & thoughtlessly> take dominion over <extinguish> all of His creation

His edict to be fruitful has caused our overpopulation, destroying the natural systems we depend on

Our vain claim that we alone possess souls allows to torture & slay all the beasts of the field at will

But, no worry, no matter what we do to this earth, faith in god yields us a place in an eternal heaven