Environmental Shift in Consciousness

A philosophical poem advocating conservation.

200 years of industry growth,
mass production – mainstream,
dictate to consumer sheeple
a postmodern marketing dream.

The inner-city metropolitan population
leaves rural barren wastelands,
environmental and natural detachment,
a consumerist production of brands.

Work relegated by automation
and assembled on moving lines,
human interaction from a cubicle
in this mockery of perfectionist times.

Natural neglect and exploitation
raping the global environment,
are degrading our natural biosphere
to humankind and animal detriment.

Can human consciousness evolve
with time enough to spare,
to fix land, water, and air
and the cycle of life repair?