Developing Backwards

One of the more wistful
and repetitive news stories
I hear on my radio every day
is that of the first reports
of a new development,
set out to save humans time
and rearrange the landscape,
comes when reports are made
of trees being cut down 
in some, ahem, 'iconic' landscape.

As a person who lives where there are
more trees than people I empathise,
When we cut down big trees
we destroy the support for all life
that was meant to have
a longer lifespan than we have, 
but with the human attention span
shrinking so the life span
of what we depend on shrinks even more.