Ecocide

[Alan Liefting]

Ecocide -- the death of nature.

Like a run-a-way train, civilization is speeding along tracks of our own
manufacture towards the stone wall of extinction. The human passengers
sitting comfortably in their seats, laughing, partying, and choosing to not
look out the window. Environmentalists are those perceptive few who have
their faces pressed against the glass, watching the hurling bodies of plants
and animals go screaming by. Environmental activists are those even fewer
people who are trying desperately to break into the fortified engine of
greed
that propels this destructive specicidal juggernaut. Others are desperately
throwing out anchors in an attempt to slow the monster down while all the
while, the authorities, blind to their own impending destruction, are
clubbing, shooting and jailing those who would save us all.

anon