GREEN PLAN

Now class, it’s time to buckle down to our department store text books,
the neon scientists that we are; and let us consider for a moment,

environmental politics guaranteeing industry continue poisoning the planet

for another hundred years; albeit at a reduced rate. What's it matter?
Plush furniture and stereo equipment are an end to justify the means.

And in the process, so what if we kill off all the wildlife?

There’ll still be the zoos! Those marvels of human nature.

Meanwhile, we can point Hubble’s eye at the pristine sky

to locate our latest nuclear reactor; the bankers already guaranteeing a profit.

Leave the lower classes to guard the planet against any hostile alien takeover.

They can stare up at us with their binoculars for entertainment.
We do after all have to keep Earth … if only for sentimental reasons.