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

There’s Nothing To Be Afraid Of

Don’t worry, your kids wont ever get any coal-fired mercury in their tender, developing young brains

None of the thousands of unregulated, manmade chemicals in our environment are actually harmful

Take it easy, you’re not likely to get one of those increasingly-common but incurable MRSA infections

Relax, they’ll get around to fixing the roads, dams, bridges, electric, water & internet real soon now

You’re going to have plenty of retirement savings to ensure great happiness during your golden years

There’s no way that you’ll be one of those forced into bankruptcy by obscenely huge healthcare bills

Stop fretting that Muslim fanatics will ever again kill thousands here in this, the land of the free

Just you keep on eating the stuff you really like and don’t worry about the calories or the ingredients

Listen, that climate change thing…It’s not going to affect you in the very least, so just forget about it

Chill out man, you can start exercising anytime, but Hey, it’ll never really come down to that…

Yeah, there’ll always be plenty of good, clean drinking water, even if it does all come out of bottles

No, no, no! – Our consumer choices do not deny our precious children their full & glorious potentials

Whoa there partner, they’re never going to peel that semi-automatic out of your cold, dead fingers

Nobody & I mean No-Body, is going to force you to live on carrots, kale, tofu, rice, beans & weak tea

Calm down, they can’t make you take part in that worthless, messy, time-consuming recycling scam

Not to worry – You’ll be able to glory in all your fav team’s triumphs in HD - From up there in heaven

Slow down, neighborhood fracking yields a virtuous energy independence, without any health threats

It’s OK, terrorists aren’t going to burst into your little girl’s classroom with AK47s blazing for Allah

No need to panic, the stock market is quite safe and very profitable, in the, umm, really long run…

Well, of course your kids are always going to like you – As long as you uncritically pay for everything

Don’t be afraid, UN black helicopters aren’t coming in the night to steal our precious sovereignty

You needn’t ever concern yourself with the future of the poor, bastard kids you saved from abortion

Look, even though they call you Moochers, they alone still have only your best interests at heart

Now, now, now, just you wait and see what happens to those sinful LGBTs from up in your heaven

No need to get upset just because all the world’s fisheries have already crossed the brink of collapse

Those giant whatever ocean gyres circulating tons of plastic trash? Not a threat to your happy family

It’s all right, this manmade global mass extinction going on all around isn’t coming to your back yard

Ease up, Mom. Your kids don’t need to read & write to claim their role as tomorrow’s world leaders

Chillax pal, swarms of refugees won’t ever be trundling their filthy belongings down your street

Mellow out, you’ve got lots of time for those things that really matter that you’ve put off for so long

Don’t be anxious – elected leaders heed your letters, not just their massive corporate donor’s dollars

We’re not going to stop spending half a trillion$ per year on defense anytime soon, so lighten up

Simmer down folks, your mothers breast milk is not actually contaminated with manmade hormones

There’s no substance whatever to their utter blasphemy that human overpopulation threatens us all

That’ll never be you there, lying all pale & rumpled, with tubes going in and out & eyes shrunken in

Kick back, stop & smell the roses, live for today, for tomorrow never comes & you wont have to pay

Like I could really do something

“Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country” – John F. Kennedy

What are the average citizen’s chances of curbing our bloated & forever-increasing dEfense budget?

I’m pretty sure there’s nothing I can do to unsnarl this donor lobbyist induced legislative gridlock

What can I do about BigAg mono-cropping, water waste & insecticide, fertilizer & antibiotic abuse?

Seems like a loud majority of us take a real pride in our large-scale return to illiteracy and ignorance

What could I say that would enlighten them as to the absurdity of using hulking trucks as family cars?

How might the little guy voice a sane objection to the corpro-sales media guilt blitz they call $XMAS?

I’m guessing there’s no real way to focus on long-term sustainability instead of quarterly GDP figures

There never will be any genuine discussion regarding our own excessive numbers choking the planet

It’s pretty obvious that both sides have framed the CO₂ debate such that prevention is not an option

Looks like religion will always be used to control the poor, milk the rich & sugarcoat political wars

How can I preserve habitat for disappearing species driven away by poor & hungry 3^rd World farmers?

I can’t think of any way to get giant insurers to compete to provide healthcare to the poor or the sick

No way can I stop polluting frackers from profitably exporting our sound bite Energy Independence

The free market cannot help but demand more of a tasty fish until higher prices drive it to extinction

Like I could really do something that would help stop the lovely monarch butterfly from disappearing

I guess the best we can do is put up signs warning our kids to stay away from polluted lakes & rivers

How can I change a system Blacks say has allowed us unconscious prejudice against them for 300 yrs?

Why dispute terrorist claims to the One True God given our own comically-archaic, franchised faiths?

I’ll never get any of them off the couch in front the big screen to learn some vital new job skills

Without socialism, how can we let others besides developers, drillers & miners determine our future?

Their empty addiction to corporate sport wont be affected by some limp whining by impotent vegans

Ignorant, lower middle-class whites will always back Conservatives who openly out them as moochers

You can’t convince them that Obamacare isn’t some unconstitutional, socialist government takeover

Just try and reason with gun-toting ATV drivers hellbent on freedom-riding all over their public lands

Don’t bother asking why they don’t plan for, or even talk about, our looming global water shortage

And what do you think your letters do compared to anonymous multi-million dollar corpro donations?

Obesity is a disability, not the failure of people to learn what to eat or to how get off their backsides

Obviously, we must be those who provide Middle East solutions and not their corrupt desert regimes

It’ll always be easier to campaign with anonymous innuendos & half truths than to honestly debate

I must accept that abortion, gay rights & women’s needs really are society’s truly important issues

All of my recycling, hybrid-driving & locavoring won’t ever amount to a single coal-fired power plant

We will remain an entitled, exceptionist people whose leaders can demand that ‘God Bless America!’

I can never even help start to rebuild broken electric, gas, water, roads, bridges, dams & internet

It must be proper to microscopically examine social programs but to blankcheck all arms spending

There’s no way to rid ourselves of this destructive plague of lifelong puppet, professional politicians

Yes, I fear each & every regelation directly limits our personal freedom & leads to a socialist decay

No Need To Even Stay Angry

Too damn late to prevent

Too far gone to save

Too expensive to restore

Too certain for any further concern

No stopping what’s already done

No need to harbor those stale regrets

No more fingerpointing in infinite loops

No turning back - We’re already there

It’s a done deal, so we need to move forward

It’s not a debate we must have anymore

It’s time to adapt without doubts and/or fears

It’s over now and those days are not coming back

There’s no more hurry to fight this problem

There’s no longer a point to talking costly prevention

There’s no reason to keep stalling for more study

There’s no need to even stay angry

The time has passed

The hour is over

The tipping point lies behind us

The inaction was quite decisive, once again

Now events have ended all debate

Now that it’s over, we must move on

Now we can just react without thinking to save our families

Now our children won’t have to decide

That issue is far behind us now

That argument timed out long ago

That fervor is no longer heated

That controversy has been laid to rest

Any recrimination is now quite futile

Any new tears now merely blind us

Any more time spent is simply wasted

Any regrets now will only slow us down

We were mostly unable to try to stop it

We can’t act on that anymore

We must begin to heal and get on

We shall, however, remain quite proactive, nonetheless

No Worries, It’s Just Human Nature

War is part of our genetic makeup & Traditional Family Values - And also a vital economic stimulus!

Beating each other senseless is just human nature, especially when we are drinking heavily together

Homo Economicus does not naturally do things like recycle or save energy if he’s not paid to do it

We’re just following our pioneer instincts as we rip up new bandit ATV trails in our national forests

Man has flourished on red meat since Creation, during the dinosaur days, and I’m not changing now!

We hate gays, black, arabs & illegales because its just our nature to slaughter those different from us

Preying upon the sick, poor, widowed & elderly has been a human tradition ever since time immoral

Why, slavery goes back to our caveman days when captured enemies were raped & put to hard labor

It’s always been true that no one pays when everyone is at fault:Like for our air, water, forests & soil

We toss out our trash just like our ancestors did - to keep our loads light when we’re out on the hunt

People have always needed flashy creation myths, like all our laughably old-fashioned One True Gods

We’re obviously programmed to yearn for egotistical and paternally-sociopathic despots to enslave us

God meant for women to remain covered, uneducated & abused: And to raise up sons exactly like us

It’s simply supply & demand to pay higher prices until the next popular resource is used up or extinct

Humans instinctively prefer fibreless, nutrition-free, salt, sugar, fat & chemical-laced factory food

Real men will always thrive in the smoke & noise given off by unmuffled, petroleum-powered engines

Peasants have eternally craved rule by their moral betters - Who treat them as disposable moochers

To ensure our progress, glib sales types must always be highly rewarded for their all-consuming greed

Societies possess an innate ability to stall on major issues, looking to muddle thru or find a quick fix

We all know our growth depends on selling the Very-latest, Ever-more and yet another Even-bigger

It’s only natural to ignore our starving brothers every day in pursuit of our own individual happiness

Of course we want more money every year for exactly the same job, while we get fatter & stupider

It’s obvious that our current house of credit cards lifestyle dates far, far back into prehistory

It’s just human nature to scorn reason and leap with a blind faith into the arms of a predatory clergy

We all find it easier to just say NO! than to pass expensive, and likely unnecessary, over-regelations

It’s hereditary to scoff at research that Faux News mouthpieces dismiss as junk science or fuzzy math

No one ever wants to ponder the emptiness of the cosmic void which looms at the end of every life

Honestly, we all do better by focusing on sports, drinking, gossip and the safe details of family life

All government becomes more inefficient, wasteful & costly the more prosperous a nation becomes

It’s simply our innate survival of the fittest mentality that drives us to slash wasteful social programs

& there’s no justifying my having to pay for repairing roads, bridges, dams or electric & water grids

We’ve always defended our omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent gods against any imagined slights

Humans have forever needed to save energy for hunting & fighting - Hence my place on this couch

Driving an 8 passenger SUV alone to work every day satisfies a very real, very ancient need within us

Evolution is only a theory, but Social Darwinism is the survival of the fittest reality men must live by

Human nature is unchanging so it’s best to grab as much as we possibly can: Right here & Right now!

When The Dump Burns Again

I’ll stay out here with you when the dump burns again

We’ll all be together when there aint no more MacNuggets

Still be by your side when all the Wal*Marts close down

And we’ll shuffle off to nowhere on streets with no traffic

We’ll sit and just watch as the next sandstorm approaches

Marvel at the difference with so many less people

May god bless us and keep us in merciful ignorance & poverty

And, lo, I will come fetch you when this rodeo’s over

Ask for me where every moonrise looks quite upside down

Walk with us to enjoy a bloody red, slaughterhouse sunset

Help us stack this old cardboard into our newest shelters

Laugh with us when we realize nothing will ever make sense

Give up your privacy for our sacred national security

Grab a place in any new line without even first asking why

He’ll be back soon – and He’ll be bringing us money & hope

But for now, just watch them parade til the dump burns again

Up above, colorful balloons will still keep us amused

Then it’s off to California with our guns and old bible

We’ll guzzle factory spring water & toss away the plastic bottles

We’ll kill for our god cause He said the infidels must pay

My sister is a saint but your mothers are all dirty whores

Off in the future, I often hear the grandchildren curse us

Stay back from the windows cause they’re still throwing bricks

See the dump burn again from our pink plastic lawnchairs

We’ll sleep in old SUVs & gnaw rancid Slim-Jims

I’ll shoot first and ask later, if I hear anything move

We’ll wonder with others what happened ta them Hollywood stars

It wont be too long fore none of the kids read at all

We’ll finally get away from them intrusive over-regelaters

But when we ransack the stores, the stuff sure does stink

We’ll fight over Twinkies but we wont find no more beer

Tell us again how sweet your big shiny pickup once sounded

When the dump burns again we’ll scatter like some uncovered bugs

But, there’ll be no time for sorrow with so much blood on our hands

We’ll stone those furtive CEOs who led us astray in fine suits

And the kids just won’t stop asking – Do we all really live only to suffer?

The Collateral Damage Of An Ordained Progress

Were good with committing a majority of world population to an inescapable $1 a day existence

Yet, were told that the wondrous ingenuity and creative energy of our people was our greatest asset

Made sure our biggest strides in any subject were for the butchering of each other on massive scales

Unable to stop slaughtering each other, our very habitat became legalized mass collateral damage

We channelized every major river and converted them all into drains for our toxic daily wastes

Clearcut all the old-growth forests for ticky-tack development and/or subsistence firewood

Blindly leveled both natural and man-made structures during our constant internecine warfare

While the Chinese depended on laughably unreal growth rates simply to stave off vast social unrest

Wiped out almost all the whales, poisoned their milk and clamored to hunt down the rest

Songbirds and raptors disappeared in what seemed like silence, given our own ever-increasing noise

Amphibians were extinguished via our fungi, chemicals, climate change and wetland reclamation

But, in terms of protection, the fundamentals of our economy still remained our highest priority

Squeezed the great cats we so admired into ever more fragmented and marginal habitats

Even the vast world ocean was polluted, stripped of its life and its breeding grounds destroyed

Our own population carelessly bloomed well beyond the supporting earth’s carrying capacity

Nonetheless, we had to chose to focus upon lowering unemployment rates and family food prices

Polluted and wasted the very fresh water we needed each day for our own simple survival

Covered unplanned cities in gloomy blankets of their own choking and poisonous wastes

Managed to alter the gaseous balance of the entire atmosphere in record time…

And committed no precious resources to that disaster by labeling it as natural or part of His plan

Invented and franchised ironclad religions to enslave man’s innocent need to faith

Destroyed the living soil in a thousandth of the time that it took to be created

Blindly became the first biological organism to cause a mass extinction on this planet, our only home

Offshored our workers with the fairytale of freeing them up for the higher-paying jobs of tomorrow

Ignored history and family wisdom and then re-created their mistakes on grander & deadlier scales

Replaced iron-fisted totalitarian control with the ethnic cleansing of newly-liberated lands

Spoke glibly of the pipedream of peace while spending more on armaments each and every year

Made tough & incontrovertible political decisions in private dialogues with a mass personal savior

Replaced stodgy manufacturing with go-go financial services and saw CEO bonuses explode

Pioneered negative savings rates as a convenient and necessary source of income

Proclaimed that a vapid consumerism was the very foundation of our ever-growing economic miracle

Deregulated the giant banks who got rich gambling, went bankrupt and then squealed for bailouts

Pumped newly-printed easy money into the financial shams we deceivingly declared too big to fail

Blackmailed them with stock market crashes until we got our huge, no-strings-attached payouts

Saw all these things as small prices to pay during our sanctified pursuit of sacred individual happiness

Lived in smug contentment, marginalizing with soundbites & cynical smirks any and all who disagreed