The Needs Of The Moment

in a world as rich in life as Planet Earth
is are varied beyond all accounting for.  

Not that I wish to diminish the efforts
of modern science towards proving
the breadth of life, where people lack the will
to think how much good comes from choice
and so cut down the choices for others,
thinking to keep the good to themselves.

Whether human, animal or plant,
Malthusian mathematics are the same
-the zero gain sum of those accounting
for quantity becomes an absolutism
when life is quantified by the unit
of the solipsistic self i which others
will bring about the apocalypse-never them.

And the apocalypse they are hoping to avoid
by cutting down the life around them is one
they don't realise they will be the authors of.....   

Six Degrees

Used to be the width of separation
between two random strangers
when, together, they set to work out
who they held in common
for them living in proximity to each other.

Now that same six degrees
is how much hotter the world might be
for there to be nobody left
to have anyone, or anything,
in common with, not even
for the lonely scientist
who is measuring the rates
of animal and human extinction.