The Crisis Which Lies Ahead

Give your head a shake, for what's at stake

Is our planet and it's eco-system

When they're gone they're gone, do you know what's going on

So many problems to even list 'em

The major problems at hand and we all must take a stand

It's global warming and ocean acidifcation

Not enough people are learning, about fossil-fuel burning

The importance of, remedial world legislation

Some may claim it's a spoof, but there's overwhelming proof

A crisis caused by, CO2 emmissions and green-house-effect gases

For whatever it's worth, there are so many places on earth

Acidification and climate change, are affecting the masses

Climate changes causing drought and of this there's no doubt

Unproductive farmlands becoming an outpost

There's no sense pointing fingers, for the problem it lingers

The ones who pollute the least, suffer the most

Also, there is no denying, many of the world's coral reefs are a dying

Do some research and check out the stats

A lot of the flora and fauna that rely, have started to die

We've changed the nature, of what Nature formats

Does anyone think, what happens, when the icecaps they shrink

To the low-lying island nations and land

With fish-stocks depleting and a dead horse, continually beating

Where there is no supply and there's only demand

Even in America people don't know, local farmers, really can't grow

Their aquifers or wells, have no water

And at the end of the day, there is no other way

Than to abandon an ancestrial farm, with no money, no produce and no fodder

There are many coastal States, the fish catching abates

The small fishermen are pondering their plight with annoyment

With their investments out-on-a-limb and a future so dim

A life's career out-to-sea, facing unemployment

Something has to be done and done now and the only way how

The ulternative's a whole lot of dread

Polluting countries better start learning, they must drastically reduce, fossil-fuel burning

'Cause for our children's children the legacy we'll leave, is, a crisis which definitely lies ahead