We have lost all respect
For the natural world
For our forests and oceans
Where so much is hurled
Forests are logged out
Slash and burned down
And the timber sold off
Will not earn us a crown
The water thats lost
From intact forests will
Guarantee vasts stocks
Really until
The end of time
Its short sighted to log
Palm oil production
Clearly a fog
Descended on magnates
On the rich hood winked louts
Who defended their balance sheet
But now there are doubts
Not creeping but rushing in
Water is life
Without it the people have
Masses of strife
Cities will crumble
When timber is torn
For all intact forests
Still treated with scorn
Will come back to bite us
Our children no doubt
Will remember our arrogance
And how we did flout
The miracle forests
Life giving rain
Stored in their roots
A Great value gain
DAvid Lindenmayer
From the ANU
Knows about this
And says we must do
The right thing and save forests
Otherwise we
Will perish having wasted
A resource tragically
And it makes sense
Trees are the thing
They improve the soil
And to us they bring
So many advantages
oxygen too
So water and air
So what do we do
Chop down the trees
Lay concrete instead
And watch as more of us
In future lay dead
We will fight over water
That we waste all the time
The frackers their backers
Are creatures of slime
Wasting a resource
That our children will need
To pile up their bank notes
And think they succeed
So they made it on timber
And they made it on frack
But in ten years or so
There will be no way back
Waters true value
Far exceeds wood
When out in the outback
Wood is no good
But water will save you
Keep you alive
Without it none of us
Could ever survive
Trees give us air
And give us water too
Without them
Concrete well
It may cover you
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