Million - A Warning Poem by Richard St. Clair

A million species due to be extinct,
Mankind's gift to our sick environment:
And when those precious doomed life-forms are spent,
Too late we'll know all life is interlinked.
Who's doing anything about this crisis?
Darned few politicians, that's for sure!
And even though there is an odds-on cure,
The ocean-level ominously rises.
Some tell us that our planet's a lost cause,
And if that's true then all these words are moot:
While oil and coal men just don't give ahoot,
Still activists demand Earth-saving laws.
But, I think, our scions will likely curse us
For ignoring catastrophic doomsday verses.