We have here in the Top end of Australia, a gorgeous, still virgin wilderness called Arnhem land..Untouched for thousands of years..Now they want to MINE IT...That's The US Govt, The Chinese, and every other Bod that can get their finger in the pie!!
Much of Aussie has gone this way, next it will be the Daintree....Pine Gap was taken in the 80's when our ridiculous PM allowed it sold off to foreign investors..UM..Military base that one..

We are boycotted if we don't sell, the Mighty Uncle Sam and his Cohorts will have their way..NZ, still has remote area's that only a mountain goat can get too, but...a Huey fully equipped with heat sensors and all the gear, would find yah if you did manage to leggit..

Why aren't ppl realising whats going on? Whose doing it, and what the BIG idea is?? I can't fathom it out.
I hate to say this, but the earth..is Stuffed!! There is nothing left to leave to future generations...and by the time the lab rats, exterminators...Nazi's get though with despatching all the useless eaters...there will be a whole lot less human beings above ground!!

I'm really sick of all this, and I'm just bouncing off you're write Ed, which i do adore, but....
Read my next poem...I won't put anything more here
Hugzzz Ch'erie

It is sad but true that the environment is degraded faster every day. An eyeopener, Ed.

as always, poignant, thought provoking and well done

well said

It is sad, but be grateful at least that you had an opportunity many will never have. Patrick

Sad but unfortunately so true. It makes one heartsick just to think of what kind of legacy we are leaving our grandchildren and great grandchildren to come.

fee

The deterioration of nature correlates with man’s loss of humanity. This is sad.

This is a beautiful composition. 500 miles in 8 hours. I couldn't get further than a few. One thing, though. I find that I have wandered through life and as I wandered I also found myself wondering, too.
Isn't life wonderful!
God bless,
Lew

... blimey... 500 miles in 8 hours????? that must use up some gas, Dad!!! Yet you need to come to the UK if you want to know what it's like to be crammed-in, and for green-belt to be squeezed out. The French, in the 70s, had five times the per capita rate of space to us Brits... is it any wonder we are fast losing our rag and becoming a violent peoples. Yet, thank God, there is still much beauty within a short striking distance, though not much true wilderness... if any... But, like you say... if you can't find it in the vast continent of USA, where can you go but the frozen places and deserts... though they themselves are, of course, under threat one way or another... We need to all squeeze into Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi and take us one last trip together before it's all too late... Yes, another complete wash-out of a Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK... and the mood all round is pretty flinty... xx

Why all states dont have the ads "Don't Mess With _(TEXAS)___" for themselves is beyond me! We - the citizens - take that serious in our state, and there are not just laws but high fines and jail-time in some cases. We're still working on the big GREEDS (corps) for their pollution...slow-but-sure legislation.
Volunteers in canoes clean up small to big streams and rivers. Volunteers were at the beginning of our nations freedom, and are continuing the 'battle' today on polution and other meaningful projects. What we individually do...does matter.
(on my soap-box, again)
Blessings and Love for an eye-opening, poetic message, Ed! - Micke

Fortunately, Ed, a mile to the east we have the ocean.
I dare not look the other way. -gene.

I hate to say that might happen. When I go camping I hate to see garbage laying on the side of the road on the shores of lakes. From my home to my campsite I don't start to drive through trees until about the last hour and a half of the six hour journey. That saddens me because even then I can see the scaring on the earth that pollution causes.
AM

I'm afraid this is too true, Ed, it's very sad
and I wish we could change these cold facts.
Great message!

PEEWEE - As per usual, yet another astute observation...

Methinks the Acronym - HOMES - has suffered a vast decline ...

Huron - Ontario - Michigan - Erie - Superior ... is now ...

Hopeless - Oblivious - Miasmic - Eradicated - Septic !!!

Peace - BRO! TK.

Outstanding write Ed
Reading this fantastic piece reminds me
Of that Indian Chief, looking around his surroundings
with a tear hi his eyes
Saddest facts is that is only 500 miles
within your Home....
Peace be with you
William

I agree with you, Ed. I can remember when we swam in lakes--not pools, But I wouldn't dare put my head into the water of a lake anymore. This little town I live in with its country setting and scattered homes about the county is suddenly experiencing growth, and there goes the trees as whole housing developments pop up. People don't believe in making the most of what they have anymore--like my family had to do when I was growing up. They want more and more until live revolves around total materialism. How very sad!

So sad, this; compellingly penned; and the music fits the nature of this poem perfectly! Very well penned; bravo!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :(

Heartbreaking, what mankind has done to God's creations ... powerfully penned sadness, Ed.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

it is very sad to see and know. I hope you can find some peace in it just the same. Good write. LadyJ

Man shouldn't look further than Route 66, once one of the pulsating nerves of inner America, with trucks, people going and coming, small places full of life and friendliness.
Today, thousand of miles of boarded up places, rusted windmills with a shrill scream of protest, ghost towns.
Who killed Norman Rockwell's good old America?

Georg

I personally think, Momma nature is going to give us a big enough whack behind the ears to stop ravaging all that she is; all it takes is a microbe born of our abandon to wipe us of this planet, at least enough of us, until the next time. Have a nice Sunday! Jasmin Horst