A Child’s Epiphany About Eco-Mania

I wanted to be an eco-nut, just like some of my peers

But everything they told me

Fell down around my ears

They said the world is warming, and that is somehow bad

But when I see what cooling does

More heat would make me glad

They said our fuel is critically low, as you must realise

But all that is clearly based

On many layers of lies

They said more CO2 means more Y, where Y is something scary

Then Mother Nature ups and acts

In ways that are contrary

I used to fret on polar bears, on penguins, and on pack-ice

But now I see how they all thrive

As if my fears were groundless

It’s fracking this and fracking that, will frack us up forever

Our taps will ignite, ground tremors give fright

But reality might differ

My radical chums said religion is wrong, a terrible miasma

But their high priests from computer suites come

And preach their stuff as dogma

Beware the warmth, beware the fire, beware the fuel of fossils

Look at this chart, look at this plot

And tremble ye poor mortals

But I don’t like to shiver, from fear or freezing snow

And as for turning eco-nut

I’ll tell them where to go.

I’ll tell them where to put it, their doom-besotted drivel

I happen to think we humans

Are actually quite special

We deal with things, we find new ways, we add to our great progress

We thrive when challenged but get annoyed

When fed that eco-nonsense