The poem today addresses the recent 38C heatwave in Jersey, and other aspects of climate change and pollution. We have not been good stewards of our planet. This are the "hot topics" of this poem.
Hot Topics
The sun, remorseless, beating down
Warm air from the South, burning hot
Grassland, lush and green, now brown
Carbon mitigation: one last shot
We are building our own funeral pyre
Rainforests cleared, more each year
And burning trees consumed in wild fire
A deaf world seems unable to hear
Our plastic waste in every food chain
And nitrates pollute the water table
Droughts and wars remove our grain
Our world has become so unstable
The heat-wave: one more sign to see
One planet: we cannot flee
The sun, remorseless, beating down
Warm air from the South, burning hot
Grassland, lush and green, now brown
Carbon mitigation: one last shot
We are building our own funeral pyre
Rainforests cleared, more each year
And burning trees consumed in wild fire
A deaf world seems unable to hear
Our plastic waste in every food chain
And nitrates pollute the water table
Droughts and wars remove our grain
Our world has become so unstable
The heat-wave: one more sign to see
One planet: we cannot flee
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