It Is Small Recompense

That when I pick the autumn blackberries
from the nearby roadside hedgerows
the blackberries might be cleaner
than they would have been in the past
because that nice Mr Musk makes cars
with much lower emissions than vehicles
used to emit, before modern electrics.

That Musk is the supplier of such cars 
and makes people pay through the nose
for their servicing and maintenance,
and the cars are computers on wheels,
much to the annoyance of drivers
who learnt to drive on manual cars,
is something I don't want to think about. 

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.