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Capitalism, Climate Change, Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Ecological Overshoot, Extinction of Man, Gaia, Microplastic Pollution, The Elite 1%
Steel spires rose where forests once grew,
Furnaces roared, forging cityscapes anew.
Progress danced on fossil carbon pyres of old,
As CO2 fumes seized a deadly choke hold.
“We mastered all!” man proudly confirmed,
As glaciers melted and forests burned.
Warnings drowned in the dollar stream,
Hubris blinded every capitalist dream.
Mountains carved to feed our thrones,
Left only dust and brittle bones.
Microplastics swept by tides that never slept,
Where bleached coral ghosts quietly wept.
Chemicals bled through river veins,
Fields turned gray from acid rains.
Each species lost, an incalculable death,
Extinction drew its final breath.
Elites feasted and gorged on gain,
Ignoring Gaia’s silent cry of pain.
Their vaults swelled as the world decayed,
Earth’s fate bartered, ecological debt unpaid.
Concrete and steel giants, once reaching so high,
Crumbled beneath the vengeful, violent sky.
Eerie quiet now reigned where chaos had thrived,
And only echoes in empty ruins survived.
Yet Earth still stirs, hope cracks through the scars,
Green tendrils breached the rusted prison bars.
Shall she mourn the reckless and irrational breed
Who sowed the storm and choked on their greed?
A fleeting chapter in Earth’s record reads
Of man’s folly etched in poisonous deeds.
The cosmos whispers dark tales of his shame,
Of kings who craved riches and burned from the flame.
Collapse of Industrial Civilization 