Life on earth will survive any damage done to it
No matter what insults we inflict on the environment
Whether or not climate change melts the polar regions
And the ocean overflows garbage like a cesspool.
Chernobyl’s exclusion zone has become a wildlife refuge
Teeming with species that thrive in our absence
Where people cannot survive the perpetual radiation
The question is not whether we can save the planet.
The question is whether humans will inhabit the earth
When it is very well known that we are in the anthropocene
When harmful human activities are altering the biosphere
Threatening catastrophe for entire ecosystems.
The question is whether humans will rise up and force change
When capitalist profits drive production that despoils our world
In a system that makes laws to keep us in thrall to fossil fuels
In a decadent culture of conspicuous consumption.
The outcome will be socialism or barbarism for us all
The reality that stares us in the face imploring us
Understand the urgency of the times we live in
Come together right now and make the revolution.
