RAPE OF THE RAINFORESTS
Oh sturdy trees supporting life,
Greed has caused your people strife.
Because they see a profit there
They have laid your forests bare:
Sold your wares to highest bidder;
Never stopping to consider
The consequences they have wrought
Upon mankind, through lack of thought.
Your foliage, collecting rain,
Ravaged for financial gain,
No longer lingers to collect:
The rampant rainfall to deflect.
The consequential quest for wood
Causes a mighty forest flood.
And afterwards, as flood dries out,
Comes a devastating drought.
For many types of plant and tree,
Extinction becomes reality.
And many drugs to cure our ills
Are lost in forests, mankind kills.
And many people's lives are changed,
As with nature we become estranged.
To save the rainforests, we must strive,
If we're to keep our Earth alive.
Copyright Peter Jones 1993