Crappily Ever After

According to NASA, our planet so great

Has a mass of 6 billion, trillion tons, give or take.

And although that is truly a quite massive figure

Our planet, the Earth is NOT getting bigger

Which means in the end that Malthus was right.

We can’t keep on growing, as we once thought, we might.

We all want the same things, like peace and not war.

The trouble it seems is every person wants more.

More children, more money, more leisure, less stress,

And no one considers we need to have less.

Recession is seen as making life crappier

 But in truth having more will make us no happier.

So make do and mend, get us out of this mess

To survive as a species, we have to want less.

Steve Blakesley © September 2019

Published by stevecjblakesley

A primary school teacher for over 40 years, Steve now writes stories for children. Titles include Fidget the Heron and Bluster & Snide the bullying bantams. Two books have been published for adults. Witches Knickers supports North West Cancer Research and Wizards Y Fronts supports the Samaritans. Steve is married with two grown up children and two grandchildren.

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