Was stuck in traffic for an hour this evening. Looked around and saw a sea of cars idling, opened the window to give a rupee to a beggar and choked on the gas fumes filling the air. There was nothing natural about the atmosphere here except our collective psyche to continue the environmental abuse and our refusal to acknowledge our responsibility of shutting down the engine and waiting till the traffic ahead cleared. The reality is going to be more grim, as I understand the collective environmental damage we have cause is irreversible for a 100 years at least. And I don't think we are ready to switch of our air conditioners yet, or replace petrochemical products with non-polluting energy sources in the next one year, or stop burning wood and waste. Following is the result of such thought process that followed until the traffic cleared.
When the greenhouse effects finish their mauling
And earth as we know ceases to exist
Because we never learnt from past mistakes
And continued to be vain as a species
We choose to stay ignorant to this fate
To us apocalypse is just an unproven hypothesis
When new life-forms rule our planet a billion years later
Naming us as their biggest archeological finds
And build shrines in the honor of lost civilizations
Equivalent to what we call museums now
We think that at least our vanity will remain intact
As we still choose to believe fossils don’t have senses
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