the wildlifenews.com
*see note below
The chain saws shriek
on the mountain slopes,
leaving them bare.
google
With nothing to hold the earth,
the hillside gives way,
google
contaminating the water below
for humans and wildlife
to drink.
news.nationalgeographic.com
Mother Bear sleeps
in a clearcut
with her hungry cub.
forestforward.com
Mother Fox cannot find
enough food
to provide
for her babies.
google
They are taking the wilderness
away
in the back of a truck.
Hungry Wolf pads
alongside the highway,
no safe place to rest.
google
The multinationals finger
their fat rolls of bills,
with great
satisfaction.
Mother Earth weeps
in pain,
and then
the cycle
all begins
again.
*This clearcut is apparently around Sooke, a beautiful area on the outskirts of Victoria, B.C. Logging is STILL allowed to go on like this, unsustainably, exporting all the logs, which should be providing work for people at home, and without creating value-added industry, for more local employment. Just wholesale carnage at a great cost to the planet and the future. Notice all the waste they leave behind. This is criminal behavior, in my opinion. And the government allows it. In fact they give SUBSIDIES and huge corporate tax write-offs to the companies that do this. "Beautiful B.C." - that used to be.
Today, Kim's prompt at Verse First is : Reaction, and she gives us many possibilities, at the link at Poets United. This obvious one sprang to mind. Images that break my heart. Do check other links at Verse First, there are some wonderful offerings in there!
