Earth:Our Dying Home

Earth: Our Dying Home.

From outer space’s window
earth is like an emerald of
four Cs: colorful, cut or
separated into different,
but inestimable multiple
parts;
clarity of appearance, and a
gold bearing weight
of a high carat.

From sunrise to sunset,
sun-created-multi-color
refraction gives the earth
a panoramic view-
the rainbow effect-
with no equal.

Earth-a home like none-
a multi-purpose habitat
for both the living and
non-living things;
home to five oceans
and six continents,
in her are several seas,
numerous rivers, lakes,
waterfalls, and dams of
different sizes and depths.

Earth-the foundation on-
which countless mountains
stand,
home to varied and  
many forests by regions,
deserts-small or big-
with different climates and
various degrees of dryness.

In her bosom are

more than two thousand
organic and inorganic
mineral substances-
naturally preserved in
earth’s crust-
unending wealth that have
sustained man generation after
generation.

Tearfully, this emerald is sick,
terminally ill-with incurable
diseases-
inflicted upon it by men
without conscience;
men-whose god is mammon-
sickness caused by their
cupidity,
through rapacious plundering of
earth’s resources,
giving no consideration for
tomorrow.

Daily, earth is left naked by
shameless looters,
every day earth is devoured
by heartless individuals and
groups,
defrauders and chiselers
who care less about today or
its future,
rather concerned about
how much earth gives them,
even if it groans.

By their conduct of
“we-don’t-care-attitude”
bequeathing poverty and
sickness as inheritance for
today’s and tomorrow’s
earth dwellers

How they Make Earth Sick

                       For Today’s and Tomorrow’s

                       Dwellers.

Every minute over

twenty-one hectares of
tropical rain forest are destroyed;
yearly, over 180 million tons of
toxic materials dumped into seas.

Instead of giving life by
quenching mankind’s thirst,
oceans, big rivers, lakes, and
multi-national waters are now
reservoir holding poison-
hemlock which set to destroy-
tomorrow’s marine and
human lives.

Each year, thousands of
chemicals are manufactured,
three-quarters are problematic-
persisted organic pollutants-POP-
non-degradable toxic substances;
mostly petrochemical-propylene
or methethylene,
plastics or polypropylene
without proper disposable
method,
creating health hazards for
the future world.

From year to year,

earth gets warmer,
ozone layer-the shield against-
harmful rays is uninterruptedly
depleted;
no thanks to chlorofluorocarbons,
ammonia, sulfur-dioxide, and
non-halogenated hydrocarbons.

Every day oceans are agitated,
their levels are unceasingly rising,
coastal and inner cities are
incessantly coming under the
threat of flood.

Every year air becomes
more contaminated from fumes and
smokes from industrial chimneys;
from chemical particles,
explosions at mining sites, and
weapons of mass destruction
whenever propelled or detonated,
same air gets more polluted.

Instead of normal precipitations,

acid rains-mankind keep having-
land man ceaselessly losing to
erosion at a fast speed,
because of excessive logging,
over-grazing, mining, and
heavy industrial activities.

Daily, million tons of
industrial effluents
man disposes improperly
into the neighborhood,
with damaging effects on
farm produce and
over all impacts on
human’s health.

Noise from industrial
machines, ship yards,
automobiles, airplanes,
increase by the year,
resulting in auditory fatigue,
deafness, irritation, speech
deficiency, and physical disorder.

Yes, science and technology
has re-created the world of
mankind for the better,
true, medical sciences
have reversed
some problems of yesterday,
giving mankind some hope for
tomorrow.

Information technology
has changed the way mankind
communicate,
industrial technology keep
providing wealth for mankind,
more so, improves quality of life.

Regardless of benefits from
science and technology,
irrespective of the miracles
from medical sciences on
humanity;
many are their negative
effects on morality and
physical well-being of
individual with deleterious and
long term impact on
human society.

Insofar as science continues
to travel on the fast lane,
mankind should brace up for
more troubles;
inasmuch as science
unceasingly and
creatively redefines
life through inventions,
mankind should be ready
to confront ethical
questions that may or
may not have answers, and
moral burden
they may likely live with
forever.

As long as science and
technology relentlessly
dictating the
global pace and
denials upon denials on

global warming by
scientisticians;                    
resolving the conflict
between man and
environment
may never happen.