We're Just Animals

We’re just animals like all the others;
diverse, yes,
and different from them, but still, one of them,
one of them bound to this planet, this earth, this soil and rock and
growing plants,and so tied to its fate, to the pollution we
make, to the way it changes.
Changes in a way that will probably kill us, and we’ll see it in our lifetimes,
our children dying around us in a starving and dying world.

And so much will go, even if we entertain the idea that humans will survive these climate changes,
so much will be lost,
so many species will become extinct,
so much diversity will die,
so many things that will cease to be
in a will-never-happen-again way
in an always-impoverished way.

And the rich won’t escape,
because they still need people and power to move all these people around
and all these goods around
for them.
They may prolong their life,
but that will just mean they see more death around them
and so have an impoverished life
full of death!