THE WAR AGAINST GREED

We live in a world that is moving at speed.

It's driven like this by the merchants of greed,

promoting mad things we don't really need.

They fancy the earth is a bottomless bucket.

Mine it, refine it then use it and chuck it.

We humans are clever of that there's no doubt

But brains without wisdom and we're up the spout

We try it and buy it and drive it about

but we can't live on oil or great mountains of trash

We're beasts of the soil being deluded by cash.

The tale is a long one and may never end

But we'll have to try harder to get round the next bend.

Too clever by half, who'll have the last laugh?

Sweet Nature is harsh and the strange cosmos vast

This page comes as a response to the many web sites and the multitudinous pronouncements of the great and the good who are trying to "save the earth". It is all too easy to preach and pontificate but the simple fact remains that they are all missing the point - it is ourselves we have to save. If we can change our lives and escape the treadmill of greed then the world will change with us - not the other way around!

But if you are reading this page then you probably know this already! Hope you at least find the doggerel tolerably amusing. Above all .....keep up the good work to change the way you live in the ways you know make sense.

Read the book "Affluenza" by OIiver James and the new book by Dara Malloy - "The Globalisation of God". Too bad the celtic christians (Pelagians) lost out at the Synod of Whitby all those years ago!