“The leaders in Biarritz are fiddling as the Amazon burns”
For the umpteenth time, we never seem to learn.
An area the size of Belgium is destroyed each and every year
Earth lungs are being ravaged by pollution in our atmosphere.

When Notre Dame was ablaze there was immediate global attention
Yet for several days of rainforest destruction, there was barely a mention.
Are we really bothered, are we shirkers, what are our priorities?
It’s time to wake up before it’s too late and accept our responsibilities.

We are consuming more than Mother Earth can give
Our lust for more, for now, for the selfish lives we live.
Plastics in the seas, noxious gases in the air
We plunder the planet today, for tomorrow we have no care.

Species are dying – both flora and fauna
And the world is getting hotter – the proverbial sauna.
Forget cartographers and politicians, we have no real borders
Nature is not interested in treaties nor world order.

The proverb says: “Cometh the hour, cometh the man”
That hour is now, time to shift from can’t to “Yes we can!”.
To invest in our planet, to turn back the tide.
We have only one world, there’s nowhere else to hide.