-A Very Sad Follow-Up To ‘Not Grand At All’-
Photo: A Once Magnificent American Mountaintop,
Now Blown All To Hell, For Its Coal Deposits
Music: Listen To Your Heart
“How shall we expect charity towards others,
When we are so uncharitable, to ourselves?
Charity begins at home is the voice of the world;
Yet, is every man his greatest enemy,
And, as it were, his own executioner.”
Thomas Browne
A gigantic British Oil Corporation has already polluted our Gulf Coast
Canadian Companies will very soon plunder our Grand Canyon uranium
And today, our mountaintops are now being blown up, to extract their coal
By a Conglomerate based in India, as we very complacently, witness our end
Our elected officials not only participate in sending too many of our jobs overseas
They also now make deals with foreign corporations, who profit from our resources
And God Forbid, that any of them worry at all, about what is happening to our home
“We’re doing all this to give you some cheaper energy, so we must now stay the course.”
I wonder when we will get those promised cheaper gas prices from our now polluted Gulf
I wonder how many nations will purchase Canadian uranium from our once Grand Canyon
I wonder if profits made by foreign coal companies are worth destroying our own mountains
And mile upon mile of now polluted rivers, lakes, and streams, as we silently watch it all end
Just like the massive, foreign owned, uranium mining, which will decimate our Grand Canyon
Our ever expanding and destructive mountaintop coal removal process, is killing everything off
Although you may not be a nature lover like me or weep like I do at all this hellish devastation
You may want to at least wake up, and at our ‘Great American Give-A-Way’ begin to scoff
A year after the worst environmental oil disaster in American history
Yet more foreign oil companies joyously drill new wells, in our waters
Over five hundred of our American mountaintops, already blown away
Hundreds of miles of our streams destroyed, all life in them, slaughtered
And, despite the truly horrid price that our once magnificent countryside is paying
All of our energy costs continue to skyrocket, as do the profits of foreign companies
You might want to ask your elected Congressmen when all this cheap energy will arrive
Before all of our mountains, national parks, clean water, and wildlife vanish, for all eternity
“How shall we expect charity towards others,
When we are so uncharitable, to ourselves?
Charity begins at home is the voice of the world;
Yet, is every man his greatest enemy,
And, as it were, his own executioner.”
©2011, Mr. Ed
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is so very, very sad
what we inherited from
Native American Indians
~Mr Ed~
writes of it, and tells
it like it is...as I cry
a Cherokee tear
Lady Vivian
MAY THE FLEAS OF A THOUSAND CAMELS
INFEST THEIR GENITALS!
TK...
follow the money and you'll reach the truth. Yes, Ed,
profit is all, and profit kills.
John
fee
Great write Ed.
Newfie Hugs, Rose
Your probing, inquisitive voice is profoundly needed.
Blessings,
Christine
Anna
Dan
(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Texas, Karen Lynn. :(