Population Metastiszation

There’s twice as many now as 50 years ago and that’s well over twice too many

They say our numbers will stabilize after increasing half again as much

There is more obvious evidence of this vast metastasization, everywhere you look

They say the earth can support us, one and all, without any real problems

But we’ll live a septic and squalid lifestyle, rooting amid the rubble and the trash

We’ll manage token forests after trading wildlife for agribusiness monocrops

We can finish strip-fishing the oceans to meet the growing demand for food

Then our seafood will come from filthy, toxin-rich, germ-infested mudholes, like those in China

But, hey, we’ll still have the dead oceans, spreading deserts and a thawed arctic to enjoy

We can archive old footage and preserve lots of different creature’s DNA

No doubt there will be a huge pool of labor glad to work for next to nothing

We’ll chemically purify other’s wastewater before we drink it down and flush it on

We’ll be ripe for shocking pandemics, crammed as tightly as we can be

Wars will break out often among the lemmings milling towards the precipice

Pestilence will spread quickly through genetically-modified corporate crops

We’ll have great zoos and well-fenced, highly-managed game preserves

Town names will still remind us of the creatures we eliminated long ago

Miraculous and expensive medical advances will help us all live even longer

The fractional percentage at the top will still enjoy rich and wondrous lives

Rugged individualists will still find ways to be distinguished in the crowds

The squalor, crime and emptiness will produce great but twisted works of art

Globalization can help us all achieve a state of Mutually Assured Misery

Debates on climate change and environmental damage will be long forgotten

India and china will provide our wasted world’s natural model going forward

We can all turn inward, away from the writhing masses, like the Japanese do right now

We will be able to escape to a convergence of entertainment and computers

Uncounted untouchables will colonize and mine the rich dump sites worldwide

God told us to forego contraception so we can swarm like filthy rodents

We can adjust to the grimy reality of a greenhouse heated world together

Emissions will decrease nicely once we’ve expended all our fossil fuels

We can get on with human progress when the amphibians and whales are gone

Global corporate capitalism will triumph over fairytale ecosystem sustainability claptrap

The weak will be culled by dirty water, polluted air and contaminated breast milk

Shove aside the charismatic megafauna from the Arctic to the Serengeti

Slash and burn and cut the jungle, the old growth and the boreal forests

Pack us and our wastes ever more tightly into sprawling, unplanned mega-slums

Dam the rivers, kill the fish, cut off the rich silt and poison the waters

Let the global oligopoly rule based solely on stock market considerations

We can all flourish on patented corporate crops and recycled sewage water

Make it so that peace and silence reign only in ever-expanding, newly-barren wastelands

We can school more tightly on the green pills inside our privatizing earbuds

Our children won’t have painful memories of clean lakes and country roads

Generations can progress at last freed from divisive whining by the squishes

The rats, roaches, flies, cats and dogs can raise their numbers right along with us

Natural catastrophes occurring in overcrowded, unsuitable locations will be magnified

No longer able to foul and just move away, we will gaze off from inside our filth

After several generations, children won’t have just their own parents to blame for a reduced world

Opportunities micro-marketing to the very poor will create wealth for a few

The adventurous can pursue their dreams alone upon oceans where only odd life forms flourish

You can take your children on safe strolls thru carefully tended tree farms

The dead were dug up long ago to make way for cropland and development

You could walk for weeks over identical automated farms, if it were allowed

Colonies will return once again to Greenland as Spain becomes a desert

Group suicide bombings will attain an unspeakable global popularity

Politicians and conservatives will always find some form putative progress to trumpet

Those who call for population reduction will be labeled as genocidal elitists

The rational will continue to decline in reproduction, quite unlike the vast, very poor majority

There will be no more ecological debates in the mass struggle to survive

The dirty, hungry hordes of Africa will have consumed every bit of wild meat

Religion will still provide an irrational hope in a calming, faith-based narcotic

Meaningless elections and ‘free’ markets will vie against cults of personality

No longer will displaced subsistence farmers fear raids by hungry elephants

We will choke the estuaries with filthy aquaculture pens and kill all the mangroves

Dye the farmed salmon pink and genetically infect all their wild brethren

They will flood us with images of things we cannot afford in places we will never see

We shall ignore natural cycles and say “Fuck insects, bring on the weeds and loose the goats”

For we live beyond the checks and balances of nature in the images of our one true gods