THE ROYAL ECO WARRIOR! (poem)

THE ROYAL ECO WARRIOR!

(Prince Charles, who has criticised the global food

industry for exporting, “vast quantities of commodities

around the world”, has been shipping Duchy

Mineral Water 6000 miles to the Middle East.)

That Eco-warrior, Prince Charles,

His Green credentials shining through;

Has gotta lotta bottles on,

Some ships way east of Timbuktu.

Friends of the Earth describe the act,

As simply madness and insane;

The Prince’s carbon-footprint loss,

Offset by his large profit gain.

It typifies the Greenwash that’s,

Put out by all the world’s elite;

Who suck up good things, in exchange,

For all the crap that they excrete.

Lip service is paid to this cause,

By business everywhere, each day;

As if, by lying, climate change,

Will, by itself, just fade away.

It demonstrates the iron law,

That in a world where profit’s king;

It’s clenched fist dominates the Earth,

And Capital pulls every string.

The System is itself the source,

Of most pollution on the Earth;

Retain the same and all the world’s,

Green policies have little worth.

© Richard Layton