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And What Of The Children

And what of the children as yet unborn?

Who speaks out for them and will take their part?

As the world watches the hellbound handcart

Spiralling downwards with future stillborn.

 

When our great great grandfathers walked the land,

It should have been simple to chart a course

Keeping hold of hopes to husband resource,

But now supply is outstripped by demand.

 

So what of the children, what of their right?

How will they handle this harsh heritage

Or reconcile the uneasy knowledge

It was their fathers who prompted this plight.

 

We poisoned their prospects with little thought

To the planet’s fate in what we had wrought.

Sonnet

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M.C. Newberry

Tue 31st May 2016 16:05

Too many people having too many kids - often in
surroundings and conditions that cannot support them.
Too many people travelling - obsessed by "holidays" -
and affecting the planet's well-being.
In 1812, the population of the UK was given as 12
million. Allowing for infant mortality due to poor
life-expectancy that saw large families created to
ensure some children survived to care for their elders
in a society that had no social welfare, the near 6-fold
increase to the present day is still a generational nightmare.

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