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
Taid of Life 