On becoming more knowledgeable after reading...

This changes everything Capitalism versus climate

(copy written 2014) by Naomi Klein

 

Though published

more'n a half dozen years ago,

whereby the author

painstakingly details Homo sapiens

impact upon planet Earth,

she intelligently describes legacy

lock, stock, and barrel

young people forced

to confront, an alphabet soup

of challenges courtesy motley crew

otherwise ordinary people,

whose penchant to concoct

various and sundry

extraordinary doodads,

seminal thingamajigs, or

visionary whatchamacallits

ushered Industrial Revolution.

 

Industrialization by hook and/or crook

incredibly, indubitably, ineluctably forsook

agricultural modus operandi - just look

at onset of manufacturing processes

(where population concentrated)

which radically revolutionary

(number 9) mechanization subsequently shook

agrarian paradigm to the very roots

basically, essentially,

and interestingly enough took

away that bucolic,

holistic, and individualistic

coveted and sacred bond

yielding organic crop of tasty morsels

which raw bits (albeit fruitful)

allowed, enabled, and provided

farmer in the dell to cook

powder milk biscuits

courtesy sweat brow

labor yields good eats yum zook.

 

She (the writer) alludes to activism
years before the voice of Greta Thunberg
affected the young and restless

with the urgent plea for climate change,
yet yours truly (me)
conscientious keeping lively exchange,

when I thoroughly enjoyed

livingsocial amidst grange

where a bartered bride got acquired

during frenzied interchange,

 

who currently woke

up out of her hours long siesta

while her husband tea zing ideas

to craft reasonable rhyme

did immerse his concentration

housed within

sixty plus shades of gray matter

did figuratively steep and soak

now quietude respite disrupted

snatching precious scarce interludes

of quiescence okey-doke

 

to distill purposefulness

coaxing and cabling

while cackling wife

causes riddled interruption

reducing mineserious minded intent

as some laughable joke,

nevertheless endeavor enduring

to resume objective and evoke

 

insight gleaned reading about

how humankind spectacularly

(actually horrifically) rid

oblate spheroid third rock from sun

multitudinous flora and fauna gone

iconoclastic as Butch Cassidy

and Sundance kid

burning fossil fuel

to appease robber barons their ego and id,

no matter toxic pollutants belched at expense

to extract sought after substances hid

deep within bowels of continental crust,

yet recent renaissance

regarding renewable resources amid

youth offer glimmer of optimism

to thwart total mass distinction

comprising every plant and animal.