Stop all the cars.
Shut down the coal.
Prevent Big Oil from dumping its ***** load.
Shake up complacency
And pull out the stops:
Let our leaders lead.
Nature,
You are North and South and East and West;
Our sanctuary
At God’s behest.
The time is now to transform our ways,
So warming ends,
Now and always.
Simon Piesse
I was inspired by the punchiness / gut-wrenching-ness of W H Auden's 'Stop the clocks' poem. It seemed apt to transmute this tone for the make or break climate summit at Cop 26 that starts today.
