UN Climate Change Conference UK 2021
31 OCT - 12 NOV 2021
(UK - uck?)
COP stands for Conference of the Parties, and the summit was attended by the countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - a treaty that came into force in 1994, making this the 26th since then, due in 2020, postponed because of Covid.
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stop for a start
have a heart
life's at stake
put on the brake
don't take-take-take
chop-chop-chop
for goodness sake
breaking hearts
eating meat
simply stop-stop-stop
not continue to shop-shop-shop
till we drop-drop-drop
on the floor
always demanding more-more-more
why not swop-swap-swop
change in exchange
mop-mop-mop
all the slop-slop-slop
of floods & rising tides
bar cars on rides to the terminal
oppose those unnecessary flights
on a crash course for extinction
& we all might survive
a small while
meeting in a metaphorical big top
what a circus
we're getting rid of animals galore
Aesop would be in a strop
anthropomorphic characters
from a modern fable
end up on the dinner table
escapees from Animal Farm
coming to harm
our blood relations
dead flesh
merely meat to eat
rendered
tendered
suffering undeserved defeat
taking more-more-more
from a concrete jungle
destroying habitat
not where it's at
vast wilderness reduced to park
soon no wood left to build an ark
dire zoonotic
makes us ill
& seems to ire us
wire us
mire us
tire us
in a world on fire
it's been a con of a conference
a flop-flop-flop
so much blah-blah-blah
just more jaw-jaw-jaw
war on climate change
war on nature
war on drugs
we know what wars cause
knocked to the the floor
by tsunamis of data
they still say later-later-later
like any good procrastinator
homo not so sapiens
deluded global dominator
extractivist not activist
this sophisticated hip hop
won't bring things to a full stop
lyrics OK
but no music to which we can bop
it's not pop
putting voice to our choice
mighty Amazon
river or corporate consumer capitalist champion
who feels any pride at ecocide
oil spoils
we have been fossil fuel fools
greenwash tosh won't cut it any more
talking a lot of hot air about alt energy
balking at less is more
our human condition
more blah-blah-blah
naked beneath costumes & props
yet please don't forget to smile
cop out is a way to cope
denial for a while
old or new hope
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COP usually denotes policeman. And, yes, it might do life on earth a favour if ecocidal robbers were arrested, instead of innocent, non-violent protestors. |
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