The Land, It Is a-Changin’

[Seth Itzkan]

The Land, It Is a-Changin’

By Seth J. Itzkan, Soil4Climate

Oh Bill Gates, Pat Brown

And George Monbiot

Please quit the charade

For which, nothing to show

The chemicals and patents

Do not warming slow

Despite your PR machine ragin’

For soil is what matters

And still, you don’t know

For the land, it is a-changin’

Now Biden and Kerry

And all the top brass

We know you think cows

May not get a pass

But it’s not poor Betty

That’s causing the gas

It’s fracking that’s methane engaging

And CO2 drawdown results

From livestock grazed right

For the land, it is a-changin'

Now young Greta Thunberg

We know you mean well

But forgoing all meat

Is dumbing than hell

A better future for all

That does not foretell

To your better angels we are a-paging

Because soil needs animals

From the Karoo

To the Sahel

For the land, it is a-changin'

Now climate conscious eaters

From near and from far

You think reducing meat

Makes you a bright star

But soil needs animals

Likes strings on a guitar

And a grass-fed steak is worth craving

So spend your dollars on meat

Worthy of czars

For the land, it is a-changin'

(Make more stanzas.)

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Seth J. Itzkan

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