How does my hair look?

Is my makeup smudged?

Are my clothes in style?

Will there be good food?

 

That’s all we seem to care about.

Nobody cares for the future.

They care about what’s here

now.

Nobody thinks too far ahead.

 

That hamburger you ate for dinner

took more than

twenty thousand pounds

of water.

And you have the audacity to blame

a lack of rain

for this ridiculous drought.

 

That steak you ate with your fancy lunch

was just one of the

fifty-six billion

farmed animals

killed

every year

so you could eat your damn meat.

 

The girl in that one movie had great hair.

How did she do it?

Well, it was by

destroying the ozone layer,

all those chemicals must go somewhere.

but hey

she had great hair.

 

The makeup you look oh so hideous without

kills the environment.

it’s filled with

chemicals and toxic ingredients.

That sounds fun to put onto the earth,

along with your face.

 

Your clothes look cute.

oops…

not anymore

they are out of style.

I guess you should throw away

everything from before

and kill a new animal

for new leather boots

and shear a new sheep

for another wool coat.

 

At least packaged food will always be good.

It’ll last for years,

but so will the packaging

in fact

it will last for hundreds.

 

We act like it’s normal

like there is absolutely

nothing we can do.

 

We act like nothing will happen

because it hasn’t…

right?

 

Everything is changing

slowly yet surely.

 

Our global temperature has risen

nearly four degrees above the

pre- industrial times.

 

Per person

Americans throw away

four-fifths of a ton

of trash.

Yet we hardly notice.

We act like it’s nothing

because it is nothing

until it is something.

 

The things we throw away,

the things we do today

determine the future

of what or who survive.

 

Well then

how do we fix the problem?

How do we save the thing

we have been killing

for decades

unknowingly?

 

There are so many options

we just have to

come together

as one

to make the cure accessible.

 

Let’s save water and animals

by going vegan.

It won’t be hard if we

ALL do it together.

 

Let’s get rid of makeup and hair products

by making natural beautiful

and beautiful natural.

 

If looks and style were irrelevant,

we could care only for the real meanings

of life.

 

Let’s band together

as one

to create a

calmer

safer

cleaner

and nicer

earth.

We could do it if we ACTUALLY tried.