A recent study of six diverse world
regions suggested that a quarter of all the animal and plant
species living in those
regions would be driven to extinction due to global warming
within the next fifty years. It is becoming more and more
clear that our major political and commercial institutions
are not
set up to effectively address such an ecological crisis,
perhaps because they are still looking at the complex web
of our world
through a fragmented lens. There is no villain here save
for a dangerously outdated Western worldview. These poems
are
laments for the species already gone. |
