Our planet is unlike any-other We have nowhere else to call home And yet we wreck it We wreck our planet, every single year We wreck our planet, like we can always go somewhere else But we can't... And those who try to change whats happening They are brushed off Because "They are young" Because "They don't know what they are talking about" Because "It's not that bad" But it is And if you still don't believe us Then listen to this Our forests are burning down in minutes Ask California Ask Australia They'll tell you about it In 2023, 988 million acres of forest around the globe, gone Gone because it burned Gone, because our leaders can't stop tweeting on their phones And the forests that were spared That same year 9.1 million acres gone Because we couldn't stop chopping them down Ask the Amazon she'll tell you about it She's lost 20% of what she had 15 billion trees are cut down each year Of which 42% goes to making paper Paper that ends up going to waste Paper that makes up 26% of landfill waste All because people couldn't be bothered to recycle Our animals are dying And their habitats too Because we can't be bothered to stop for a second Sea levels are rising And the Reefs are dying Icebergs are melting And no one is helping The Polar Bears are dying The Red pandas too All because no one has bothered to help We're fishing more fish More fish than can be sustained Our planet is dying and no one is crying Our water is choked with plastic With chemicals running in them And people act like it's no big deal Even when the water they drink and the air the breathe is full of chemicals People act like it's no big deal Even when Marine life is dying Because of pollution Because of plastic Because of chemicals We pollute the air we breathe And the water we drink And no one bats an eye The influencers use all this plastic And make it seem okay But it's not It's really not
I felt like I should share this, as earth day was the 22nd, but I will see y'all on the 10th This is a shortened version of the poem, but I might post the full version, depending on how this is received
