another killer progress poem

". . . . an estimated 40 percent of freshwater fishes in South America have not yet been classified.

Scientists were startled in 1980 by the discovery of a tremendous diversity of insects in tropical forests. In one study of just 19 trees in Panama, fully 80 percent of the 1,200 beetle species discovered were previously unknown to science. At least 6 million to 9 million species of arthropods – and possibly more than 30 million – are now thought to dwell in the tropics with only a small fraction currently described."

unknown diversity disappearing fast
you'd think that this'd make our thinking improve
before we crash

but progress/growth/development and g n p
are killers we dare not question
we are slaves not free

enslaved minds can't reach outside TV
medium is the message
don't you see?

now computers interactive
harden the exoskeleton cocoon
many minds r snatched
and soon . . . . . . . . .

justice or just is

truth & justice peace & justice keep them in mind daily
not too much to ask that all life forms be treated fairly

each extinction poses a risk that no scientist can describe
which entities in the web of life are the ones keeping us alive

certainly each tree assists us keeping air cool and breathable
ask local sprites before taking one down -- is this feasible

frogs'r us

there's a reason to the season
this is no bog nor a blog
woke this a.m to plog a chorus of frog

happy to hear them
they're in danger like us
unlike gus can't take the bus

can't plan like stan but neither can man
no long term thinking on a scale grand
pot slowly hotter yet we make no fuss