Are we "Green" or do we just look like cabbages

02 Jun 2024

·Aislingean

Well do our bit, all turn green improve our world, so we may be seen to take a stand, not use fossil fuel but will not battery power make our world a ruin? Reduce your carbon save the planet but pause for thought please wait a moment Lithium and cobalt, elements from hell poison land and people, as observers tell ask the question where are they found how are they extracted from below the ground? Congo's former farmers child miner artisans gleaning toxic cobalt to meet big corporate plans dead yaks and cows float in Tibetan rivers fish and water poisoned by giant lithium miners Waste salt mountains grow on Chilean plains among arid sere conditions where there's little rain water is squandered canals turned blue what is it leaches from their witches brew? Invasive extraction scars the earth question the morals what is the worth? Cars, tablets, phones all part of living batteries take from the earth without ever giving

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Aislingean

Adopted Scot interested in tradition and music I have been writing many types of poetry for 20 years or more as well as the occasional song

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