Climate Wars: A New Hope (Poem)

The deceptive Merchants Of Doubt,
Have become the Merchants of Doom,
They want you to burn yourself out,
Or shame friends for what they consume.

The dark side’s fossil fuel empire,
With its mercenary death stars,
Now deflect, delay and conspire
Using bots and fake seminars.

Though it grows cheaper by the day
To leave fossil fuels in the ground,
It’s still not practical, they say
For renewables all year round.

They still discount the future cost,
Of burning gas, coal and oil,
The heatwaves, floods, droughts, and lives lost,
On a planet that’s in turmoil.

It’s clearly foolish to invest
When your assets will be stranded,
So shrewd managers will divest
Before being reprimanded.

We now have the technologies
For equitable transitions,
To avoid 1.5 degrees
We need braver politicians.

A great cultural tipping point
Is finally within our reach,
Our leaders dare not disappoint
With inaction and empty speech.

With urgency and agency,
Driven by rebellious new hope,
We can solve this emergency
And help new generations cope.

We have individual power
To reduce our carbon footprint,
But we need our collective power
To redraw the global blueprint.

We must strike, march, lobby and vote,
For a systemic change today.
Knowledge will be the antidote,
The force that always lights the way.

By Ciara Muldoon
Co-founder of SearchScene.com,
the charitable search engine that
protects the planet and your privacy.

Written 16 June 2021

This poem was inspired by:

– Michael E Mann’s book, “The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet.” (2021)

– Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway’s book, “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.” (2014).