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

Stupid Libtard Non-Issues Solved

If the trout disappear from streams drained for watering lawns and washing cars

It may be said to be a small part of god’s mysterious scheme of things

If the polar bears have no more ice to wander about upon to look for seals to eat

Why, someone once asked me what a polar bear had ever done for him

If the insects needed by parent birds now arrive before their eggs hatch

Is the world any poorer if we do not have so many songbirds?

If we build roads to prevent wildfires by removing only the largest trees

Our children will not have to face such old-growth controversies

If we use bulldozers to sculpture every piece of open land

What real harm is there if it all looks, and actually feels, quite the same

If the ponderosa pines retreat ever higher from the heat and the drought

Won’t we still have some purple mountain majesty left, somewhere else

If agribusiness and petrochemical interests take over all the farms

We can still make calendars with quaint and peaceful rural scenes

If we have a half a billion people living with us in our current fashion

We will likely still retain this good and peaceful quality in our lives

If we allow every impoverished and illiterate teenager to bear children

We know in our hearts we were righteous in ignoring their offspring

If we catch and kill and eat every last one of those mighty bluefin tuna

It won’t affect my take home pay, not even by a penny

If our lakes are merely cesspools and our rivers simply transport wastes

who really cares if we can still drive to the movies at the mall

If there are no more engineers, scientists or technologists in our country

maybe the unemployment rate will, nonetheless, remain quite low

If our children sit at home for hours wrapped up in exotic video games

Schools just need a little work to make the difference in their futures

If two million people make a parasitic living pimping a real estate bubble

Their blind greed shows free enterprise to be man’s noblest invention

If we strive to manufacture food animals as efficiently as some form of plastic widget

There is not the slightest chance we have lost any of our humanity

If power plants are allowed to add a bit more mercury to our infants brains

That means cheap and plentiful juice to microwave our instant meals

If we just let their diesels continue spewing this grayish and tubercular fog

Wal*Mart can hold the line on the prices of its imported goods for us all

If we let two thirds of our children leave school not knowing how to read

They need only wait for the better jobs replacing those gone forever overseas

If we spend a half a trillion on defense every year against shadowy, homeless enemies

Surely it is unpatriotic to vote against giving our boys what they need

If we over-fertilize, over-water and over-poison our own artificial lawns

Agribusiness will, of course, be the good stewards of our blessed farmland

If the wheelchairs should be allowed to penetrate the wilderness

Then surely ATVs and snow machines can provide accessibility as well

If the European people that we once were, shake their heads in disbelief

we believe it still must be some wondrous, sunny morning in America

If seal milk is laced with toxic dioxin and cancerous PCBs

How can that affect me as I watch pro sports on my big screen TV?

If the ash trees all die from parasites borne on containers full of imported goods

Which patriotic jet-skier really gives a flipping damn?

If the grizzly bear retreats until he reaches a point of no return

The livelihoods of patriotic ranchers will no longer be quite so threatened

If we let the big energy boys write policy that mirrors their best interests

Clearly, these experts know what laws best serve god and country

If it is cheaper to bulldoze open space than to rebuild aged retail centers

It shows how isolated economic self-interest blindly operates to optimize our futures

If the oil sheik puppets suck our blood and nurture our terrorist enemies

It is a cowardly lie to say we support them every time we fill our tanks

If our food, clothing, shelter and entertainment all come from corporations

The lifeblood of our great country still remains the creativity of its people

If you act on the premise that you need a new car every other year

We hold it self-evident that advertising is mainly in the public interest

If families take turns controlling the American political scene

Old Europe should wake up and take a lesson from our new realities

If a minority tortures and humiliates, we the righteous remain blameless

A few crusaders have punished the perpetrators of far greater crimes

If the reality of war and death is withheld or sanitized by the censors

We are spared the troubling images which threaten security issues

If our troops are recruiting daily for Al-Queda on Aljazeera

We will spread the message of democracy throughout the middle east

If forty-five million plus uninsured can get treated only at emergency rooms

Our nation provides the best and greatest choice of health care in all the world

If we need television subtitles to decipher the speech of our own citizens

Let us revel in the strength of the diversity found in our great caste system

If we foster an elite and outsource all mental and physical labor

Americans remain the most creative salesmen in the business world

If genetically modified crops and bacteria spread wildly without foresight, but for profit

The American farmer is a reservoir of conservative traditional values

If we bog down in expensive little wars in far off desert wastelands

The American military is the mightiest fighting force upon the planet

If thirty percent of our children live in poverty and have but a single parent

The wisdom of our people lies in their innate common sense

If we turn our best farmland into strip malls and throwaway tickytacks

American agribusiness can feed the entire hungry world

If we stir up a nest of bearded fanatics whose only wish is to die for god

Our motives are pure and our actions far beyond any reproach

If we allow slaughter, disease, ignorance and torture to flourish in Africa

Our work in other parts of the globe is still not strictly concerned with oil

If we grow brutal, loud, greedy, arrogant and ignorant in front of the world

We draw strength and piety from our history and traditional values

If, inexplicably, the frogs disappear from the marshes and the ponds

We still will not permit any net losses to our precious wetlands

If all the signs and the menus come in half a dozen languages

We will surely never become a Balkanized land of Alphabet Soups

If, at the end of the day, we are known best for our clever advertising

Our ideas can gain traction if we simply stay on message

If we allow big oil to make us groveling hostages to the petro-sheiks

We must safeguard our energy needs by any means at our disposal

If the air is dirty, the water fouled, the trees clearcut and the animals extinct

Human life, security, the family and our jobs will still remain the goals we seek

If there are no more big trees and we shoot the bears and trap the wolves

Third world lands should doubtlessly preserve their flora and their fauna

If our daily bread comes from factories and our milk is genetically improved

Global Industrial agriculture feeds the way to a better tomorrow for our children

If we are the willing victims of our selfish and greedy mass hallucinations

Our cause is surely righteous for He leads us upon our self-serving way

If we find we must consume obscenely, merely to keep the economy afloat

The sure guidance of the omnipotent unseen market hand will lead us safely to heaven

If we drive an hour each way, waste ten more, doing things that we despise

We urge all our citizens to partake in the dignity of Self Responsibility

If geography is a puzzle and arithmetic is too hard except for losers

We are committed to the notion that no child will know they’re left behind

If we steadfastly hold to the one true course to which He has committed us

Faith-based, free-enterprise social-Darwinism will rule in this world and the next

Time And Time Again We Ignore...

Time and again they tell us of

Natural systems that are collapsing

Time and again we glimpse

Species as they are disappearing

Time and again it is said that

such and such practices are not sustainable

Time and again we hear of

Shameful waste that must be stopped

Time and again we read about

Shocking crimes in our own society

Time and again we think that

we must finally take a stand

time and again we ignore

the quiet truth that surrounds us all

Time and again they tell us of

The wondrous power of prayer

Time and again we help ourselves

to more than we can ever use

Time and again it is said that

Clean air and water cost too much in jobs and money

Time and again we hear of

Liberal plots against our family values

Time and again we read about

The ways our children fall even further behind

Time and again we think that

Common sense must begin to prevail at last

Time and again we ignore

The unread lessons of our musty past

Time and time again they pummel us with

These vital issues like gay marriage and abortion

Time and again we see

The free market drive up the price of disappearing goods

Time and again it is said that

Fuzzy thinking and junk science are plotting against us

Time and time again we hear of

The costs of so-called environmental racism

Time and again we read about

The grinding poverty of the global masses

Time and again we think that

Events a world away do not affect us

Time and again we ignore

The subtle signals nature sends

Time and again they share with us

Their clear visions of our bright future

Time and again we see

Too many people carrying water and cutting firewood

Time and again it is said that

Giving our jobs away will help to make us richer

Time and again we hear of

Subversive media plots pushing a godless agenda

Time and again we read about

CEOs eliminating jobs and slashing benefits and getting huge rewards

Time and again we think that

Surely now things must, at last begin to change

Time and again we ignore

The legacy of our uncontrolled consumption

Time and again they tell us of

Their duty to defend us, as they attack

Time and again we see

Peaceful pictures on the wall and bulldozers out the window

Time and again it is said that

Politics and religion have a place in scientific debates

Time and again we hear of

The latest in unbelievable social atrocities

Time and again we read about

Dire new threats to the environment

Time and again we think that

Certain trends can surely go no further

Time and again we ignore

Things we cannot, or do not wish to see changed

Time and again they tell us of

Horrible tragedies in far off lands

Time and again we see that

Freedom of expression turns an arrogant ignorance into a virtue

Time and again our shopping habits tells them

Mass-produced food at rock-bottom prices makes us happy

Time and again we hear of

miracle breakthroughs for baldness, impotence and weight loss

Time and again we read about

People just trying to obtain a little clean drinking water

Time and again we assume that

Our lives will continue in this style on into the Happily-ever-after

Time and again we ignore

Global facts which do not suit our national agenda

Time and again they tell us irrelevant stories

Of mighty civilizations that have crumbled into the dust

Time and again we are pounded with

Another complex issue reduced to a 30 second sound bite

Time and again it is said that

Wars of liberation will bring about freedom and democracy

Time and again we hear of

The inexcusable differences between the rich and the poor

Time and again we read about

Poaching and habitat destruction threatening one more species

Time and again we are assured that

Corporate globalization inevitably leads to a better world

Time and again we ignore

The unsustainable overpopulation that further dims all our futures

Time and again they tell us of

The average person’s struggle to attain the barest needs of survival

Time and again we see that

Some casually waste more than most ever have to consume

Time and again it is said that

Tax breaks for the richest are the surest way of reducing poverty

Time and again we hear of

Cultures where women remain ignorant, veiled, barefoot and pregnant

Time and again we see pictures of

Diarrheic babies, bloated and hungry, with fly-encrusted eyes

Time and again we are told that

It is fruitless to try and fathom the mystery of god’s will

Time and again we ignore

The wanton destruction of the very earth that supports us

Time and again they tell us of

The power of local control to protect everything important

Time and again we watch as

Hungry people cut down trees as their goats graze the land bare

Time and again our leaders assure us that

God blesses our country and guides their great decisions

Time and again we hear

Foreign religious fanatics proclaiming holy wars against such infidels as us

Time and again we are reminded that

God’s gift of the soul separates us from the animals

Time and again we ignore

Tainted facts that emanate from pre-condemned sources

Time and again they tell us of

The need to ensure that their unnecessary sacrifice will not be in vain

Time and again we see that

We gain by the inhuman labor of the peasants who took our jobs

Time and again it is said that

The miracle of compound growth will set us all free in the end

Time and again we are made just dimly aware of

Tragic events that can never happen here

Time and again we are quite confident that

We can simply muddle through the unforeseen effects of our unplanned actions

Time and again we ignore

The myriad small changes, so that we do not see their net effects

Time and again they tell us of

The foolishness of taking expensive action, without real certainty

Time and again we see that

We need to trust them as they act in secret, relying upon their personal faith

Time and again it is said that

We must globalize, downsize and outsource to compete

Time and again we hear of

Heinous plots against our beliefs and freedom by heathen enemies

Time and again we re-assure ourselves of

The correctness of our actions without re-examining our assumptions

Time and again reports indicate how little our children are learning

Yet we still treat them as if they were future world leaders

Time and again we give a little thanks while praying for even more