Amazon Fires: A Harbinger Poem by Richard St. Clair

Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse:
Deforestation, wild fires in the Amazon,
Huge tracts of the rain forest there now gone,
The change of climate haunts us like a curse.
So many species now are lost or harmed:
Their lives on earth precariously do hang
As climate deniers line up like a gang,
And few by these conditions are alarmed.
My call to folks to wake up are ignored:
The NGOs who care are far between,
Politicians shrug at this grim scene,
While most are in denial or just bored.
By these developments I've got depressed:
Like Cassandra are my warnings unaddressed.