"we're spending too much"

 

Born in decades prior

Their age now so much higher

Cast off by right-on Hipsters

As outdated selfish tricksters

Who built a world of stuff

Where more was n’er enough,

Where buying and spending

There’s no happy ending.

Addicted to consuming

Economies a booming

Consumptions become a habit

We’ve begun to eat our planet,

Gorging on the oil, warming up the earth

Few of us asking the value or the worth.

With carbon levels rising and worldwide oceans too

Starvation for the many, biz-jets for the few.

We know just what we’re doing

What future we’re pursuing

But just like any addict

We just can’t kick the habit.

Warnings clearly seen but choose them to ignore

Climate change a plenty, icecaps start to thaw.

Temps they are a rising

Water levels climbing

Wildfires they’re a spreading

To Armageddon we’re a heading.

And what are we a doing?

In consumption we’re all stewing.

Millions of words, endless discussion

At end of the day, a global concussion.

Just like the Ostrich, our heads in the sand

Polluting the oceans and despoiling the land.

 

To happiness find said Mr Micawber

Spend less than you earn, and it will appear

Spend more than you have, then please be aware.

“We’re spending too much” must be our cry

Continue like this, and our planet will die.