Why Pennki Linkola! You lived to that romantic day
when practical exigencies ensured you got your way.
It's much as Bernard Charbonneau expected 40 years ago.
And haggard Dennis Meadows, how you lobbied to and fro!
His eyes say: Have they figured out exactly what we did?*
Why Mr. Meadows! I have heard your talk. Hands can't be hid.
You're almost out of Dodge; your good intentions are your cloak.
Don't be afraid! You might not go to Hell after you croak.
In healthy times, such microbes are quite harmless to our kind,
although we carry them around. I hope that you don't mind.
For these when mankind pullulates will swarm like killer bees
way more concerned about our bottom lines than hugging trees.
But laying on a coat of idealistically green paint
turns cold, hard motivations into a gaslighting haint.
'The house is haunted! But by whom?' The People ask.
'Who is this they?' says someone in a Dr. Evil mask.
It's actually an interlocking quiverfull of theys,
but all Joe TV sees is shambling shadows in the haze.
If he could see much more than that, then might dumb cities burn
the rulers and the ruled to ashes in a bright green urn.
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"If the energy crisis deepens, shortage itself can paradoxically push development. Is petrol lacking? "Drill, baby, drill!" Is the Earth exhausting? Colonize the seas. Does the car no longer have a future? Turn to electronics which will permit people to make imaginary voyages. But we cannot retreat indefinitely in order the better to jump. One fine day, the powers that be will be forced to adopt more radical methods. A perspective free of illusion can lead one to think that the turn-towards-ecology will not be the deed of an opposition deprived of means, but that of the bourgeois ruling class on the day that it can no longer do otherwise. It will be the various responsible parties for the ruin of the earth who organize the rescue of the little that remains, and who after the abundance will manage the shortage and survival. For the ruling class has no prejudices, and it believes therefore in neither development nor ecology: it believes only in power" (Bernard Charbonneau, The Green Light, one's own translation).
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