Pre-reading:
It has become quite common these days to hear news and comments like: Record temperatures! cold wave kills 10! oh! rain, rain! Where have you gone? come again.
Do you know why? was the situation the same during your grandfathers' time? why is climate changing? who is responsible for this? pollution? Man's greed? Technology? Development? can we feel like finding out answers? then, read on.
About the poem:
the poem 'climate change' is though provoking. written by an unknown poet, it presents a complex problem in simple language. the poem has five stanzas of four lines each. the seriousness of the situation is clearly projected. the reasons, such as increasing emissions are established beyond doubt. consequences dying nature and dying mankind find an effective expression. A solution global debate is suggested. and it is for the reader to act, that too at once. the poem succeeds in making the reader aware of the problem.
The poem:
I don't want my children to see the Earth die
Where fishes don't swim and birds don't fly
With no air for breathing, no water to drink,
When global conditions will make the land sink.
I don't want emissions to stay in the air,
To fill our lungs and to spread everywhere,
To cause global warming, submerging the land!
Nature is dying together with us,
We wouldn't exist here but for the green grass ...
We must prevent nature from saying farewell -
If it dies, we die as well!
What could human beings' activities mean -
To make our planet one big rubbish bin?!
No matter that you may be only a teen -
It's never too early or late to go green!
To show our children the beauty of life;
To help polar bears and pandas survive;
To claim to the world that this talk should gain weight
Let's firstly take part in the global debate!
Thanks for reading...
It has become quite common these days to hear news and comments like: Record temperatures! cold wave kills 10! oh! rain, rain! Where have you gone? come again.
Do you know why? was the situation the same during your grandfathers' time? why is climate changing? who is responsible for this? pollution? Man's greed? Technology? Development? can we feel like finding out answers? then, read on.
About the poem:
the poem 'climate change' is though provoking. written by an unknown poet, it presents a complex problem in simple language. the poem has five stanzas of four lines each. the seriousness of the situation is clearly projected. the reasons, such as increasing emissions are established beyond doubt. consequences dying nature and dying mankind find an effective expression. A solution global debate is suggested. and it is for the reader to act, that too at once. the poem succeeds in making the reader aware of the problem.
The poem:
I don't want my children to see the Earth die
Where fishes don't swim and birds don't fly
With no air for breathing, no water to drink,
When global conditions will make the land sink.
I don't want emissions to stay in the air,
To fill our lungs and to spread everywhere,
To cause global warming, submerging the land!
Nature is dying together with us,
We wouldn't exist here but for the green grass ...
We must prevent nature from saying farewell -
If it dies, we die as well!
What could human beings' activities mean -
To make our planet one big rubbish bin?!
No matter that you may be only a teen -
It's never too early or late to go green!
To show our children the beauty of life;
To help polar bears and pandas survive;
To claim to the world that this talk should gain weight
Let's firstly take part in the global debate!
Thanks for reading...
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