We seem to think we own the Earth
as something inherited from birth
whereas we've really stolen it
and very soon will have broken it.

We've used the land, the sea, the air
as if there's nothing important there
to stop us doing whatever we like
(and if there was, we wouldn't care).

We suffocated the soil with cities,
buried our wastage at its roots
and like commencing hostilities
dumped on it everything that pollutes.

It's only very recently
we've started to realise what we've done
and though some payback has begun
it's not enough. We urgently

have to address the planet's need.
But with human nature as it is
we can't eliminate human greed
and competition for personal status.

So the only way to avert disaster
for all the other life on the planet
is actually taking action faster
to identify the cause and ban it.

We won't reduce our global warming
and all the rest of human harming
just by looking at carbon footprints.
We need to reduce the NUMBER of footprints.

The solution is trimming our population.
The Chinese had the right idea
but we won't stem human copulation
so the need for contraception is clear.

Although the birthrates of richer countries
are already starting to decrease,
that of Africa is set to explode
so the world's population will still increase.

We need the richer nations to help the poorer
reduce their birthrates for all our sake's
and make contraception free for all
and also abortion to counter mistakes.

Then, hopefully, we'll soon be seeing
everyone, everywhere all agreeing
more than two children is unacceptable
all the while babies are contraceptable.