The Edge of Destruction

"I think this is one of the great moral challenges of the 21st Century, perhaps the greatest moral challenge", he says. "If we are not acting, we are endangering everyone who is alive now and also future generations." (Prof Peter Singer of Princeton University, on Climate Change)

The Edge of Destruction

Time is running out. A word is spoken.
The tipping point, the end of days.
The young girl tells of a world broken
And soon too late: humanity pays

The cloud was bursting over Spain
Flash floods, buildings torn apart
The sky weeps with torrential rain
This planet has a broken heart

In Amazon forests, a blazing fire
Dante’s Inferno: a glimpse of hell
Unchecked, consequences dire
Listen to warnings: this we tell

The Edge of Destruction: like a broken spring
A warning cloister bell begins to ring