We really dried them ugly toads right out and ran over the
slow snakes and dull turtles
We bulldozed the non-producing meadows with their hapless
bugs and useless flowers
We got baby bunnies on the run and the little fawns shake in
fear from our tractors
Our monster dams create great lakes for roaring by drunkenly
in our oversized speedboats
We rocked that ominous silence with the empty braying of our
powerful machinery
By god, our chainsaws showed all of those old growth big
trees just how tough we really are
Replied quickly, ‘who gives a fuck?!’ when they heard
that butterflies was disappearing
Casually blew away the precious topsoil thousands of times
faster than it had ever been created
Asked just what the heck was it that any freaking polar bear
had ever done for us, anyhew
Always pushed extra diesel smoke through our loud mufflers
at them squishy vegan cyclists
Exploited the seas with the same brutal efficiency we had
trained upon our cows and pigs
Pushed aside the microscopic ocean life forms with a rain of
toxic plastic particulates
Realized that ending that liberal global warming scam would
pretty much save the earth
Knocked out them lakes and forests with the acid rain from
our mighty coal generators
Wiped out worthless desert fish, tiny mice and silly owls
that nobody actually cared about
Combined our noisy and drunken recreation with
energy-guzzling environmental destruction
Showed our superiority by increasing our population even as we
mass-extinguished other species
Fought against climate change by adjusting our thermostats
to suit our imported gym shorts
Disdainfully threw out valuable recyclables in brave,
libertarian defense of our personal freedom
Said our god granted only us eternal souls, dominion over
the earth and a duty to be fruitful
Viewed greedy, unsustainable, eco-devastating development as
patriotic economic progress
Went beyond earthly destruction to the massive murder of
warfare at every single opportunity
Laughed cynically about their bleeding heart concern over a
few miserable little songbirds
Smashed the ancient mountain tops down into their valleys,
gouged out the coal and then left
Harshly mocked their profitless recycling, raw veggie diets
and misguided environmentalism
Slaughtered the albatross and dolphin as blind collateral
damage in our ocean wide strip-mining
Manufactured our food with all of the care the asians used
in mass producing plastic imports
Deftly fragmented habitat and cut off migration routes
without so much as even trying…or noticing
Adopted as beloved corpro-sports symbols the revered
creatures we had exterminated centuries ago
Did not notice the bees disappearance before we had even
learned of their importance
Replied disinterestedly: ‘Huh’ when told that
millions of trees were dying all across the West
Asked what was wrong with these people who were all so
worked up about them stupid frogs and shit
So what if we filled some stupid seals milk with PCBs and
messed up a few lame fish with hormones?
Remained blissfully unaware as invasive plant species spread
and wrecked entire ecosystems
Made damn sure our priorities were the family, our economy
and a strong national defense
Slept securely, having bargained our fictional souls for the
imaginary heaven of our own one true god
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