March 29, 2004
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we have fishing nets that can fit 16 Boeing 747s inside them to strip our oceans of fish to trap thousands of porpoises and dolphins we have saws that buzz down 4,000 year old Alerce trees in Chile to turn them into chips to send to Japan to make wrapping paper we have chickens getting bird flu and cattle getting mad cow the milk contains bovine growth hormone and the fish contain high levels of mercury in the next 15 years world population will reach near 20 billion people capitalism is an engine of eco-destruction and even though entire planetary systems are collapsing as I word-process these lines and the Pentagon predicts abrupt climate changes governments and corporations will not alter their policies and billions of people will not admit that there is a crisis until it is too late capitalism is the blueprint for collective human suicide we will consume ourselves to death and drown in the market's effluent if we are to survive we must replace the invisible hand of the market with the visible hand of planning say no to capitalism it does not work! · · · · · ·
Poetry on Swans Scott Orlovsky is a World History & Cultures, and an American History teacher at Clifton High School in New Jersey. He has a BA in History from the Johns Hopkins University and a MA in History from the University of Colorado. Do you wish to share your opinion? We invite your comments. E-mail the Editor. Please include your full name, address and phone number. If we publish your opinion we will only include your name, city, state, and country. Please, feel free to insert a link to this article on your Web site or to disseminate its URL on your favorite lists, quoting a few paragraphs or providing a summary. However, please DO NOT steal, scavenge or repost this work on the Web. © Scott Orlovsky 2004. All rights reserved. |
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