What did you do in the climate wars, mummy? [poem]

Recession is over! We’re back in the black!

The business is booming and growth is on track;

the cash that we lost on the house has come back –

it’s time to go shopping again!

That digital gizmo that turns its own pages!

Those fabulous shoes that you’ve wanted for ages –

there’s a million and one things to do with your wages!

We’ve got to go shopping again.

All that nonsense with second-hand stuff is behind us

and repairing equipment? – dear god, don’t remind us.

We’re free to come clean, our consumption defines us:

we have to go shopping again.

So please don’t go on about ‘finite resources’

or working conditions or dry water courses:

I’m simply a victim of much greater forces –

I’d better go shopping again.

[If there's a photo down here it was added August 2017 as part of blog refresh.  Photo is either mine or is linked to where I found it. Make of either what you will.]