Thirty thousand at Cop 26,
A heady mix,
Hoping for a quick fix,
To reverse,
The worse,
Of the curse,
Of the planet overheating,
Animals bleating
Land retreating,
Ice melting,
Rivers and seas overflowing,
Food not growing,
No one knowing,
Where we’re going,
And how long,
Can we prolong,
Life on earth?

For the planet to survive,
And to remain alive,
We need to revive,
And contrive,
To create a society,
That has sanity, 
With or without sobriety,

Breaking our addiction to CO2,
Means getting out of the stew,
And finding a new reality, 
With a new morality,
Living more in our own locality,
Which need not be a calamity,

Is our planet on its last legs?
Is the question everyone begs,
But we need a new realism,
To recognise the cause of our plight; is capitalism.