20151201 (ecological limits)

Are they going to get serious this time to reduce climate change? The time for stopping it is long passed. Real reduction means NO MORE CO2--Zip--Nada--zero. Or more empty promises?

In Paris soon if they do their job

They’ll decide how much space 

You’ll be allowed allowing of 

Course for your wealth income

And education the same could 

Be said more truly for those in 

Prison and poor they will have

Little power to resist decrees I

Don’t think they’re ready to 

Limit populations yet but more

People will get the idea that

The one child family isn’t such

A bad idea after all perhaps if

You’re not inclined to procreate

Which I understand is one of 

The favored positions you might

Sell your one-child right to some

More advantaged one who prefers

A large family and has the means 

To provide for their needs it may

Come to selling the child you’ve

Had yourself his parentage would

Be known genetic makeup and such

A used car for sure but a known

Quantity quality like a certified heap

Like an amiable adoption in which

In later age the child might have

A say in his/her future family

Considering the ecological strain each

Westerner especially Americans

Puts on the environment population

Stability if not reduction might prove

A great bargaining chip for resources

If the world swears off petroleum as

It must we’ll need new ways to get

Warm show movies get produce to

Market get goods from the ground

Change our attitudes about fashion

Newsprint textbooks magazines

Catalogs toilet paper Kleenex

We’ll need better shoes more sensible

More weatherproof we’ll be doing

Much more walking than riding

On escalators airplanes will be

Strictly for absolutely necessary

Travel deaths weddings will be 

On Skype as all business meetings

Scientific conferences reunions

You’ll need a doctor’s note to have

A pet get ready to go vegan foreswear

Meat unless you’re adept at stewing

Roadkill what with fewer cars 

There’ll be less of that forget single

McMansions in suburbs you 

Might prefer life in a couple of

Storage containers stacked up

So you won’t have to heat every

Side your neighbors will

Definitely be closer we’ll

All have to learn all over again

Being a nuisance in a tight

City won’t cut it you’ve heard

Of the tiny house movement

Those people may not be crazy

So much as getting ready for

The New World

c. J.S.Manista, 2015