Mother Earth

This is all I've known

Little snow in the winter

Different from when my dad was in kindergarten like me

Back when it was icy

So much so

He could toboggan nightly

Meanwhile, I might be able to sneak one or two

Sessions in before the season is through

Summer? Man, that's even more crazy

Good luck for those without AC

Close to 40 for weeks on end

And that's celsius for those who don't speak Canadian

Afraid to even picture in a decade or two

Mainly due to the fact that people won't refrain

From doing what they say

Just might save us

Little things like taking the bus

Less flights, cutting down on red meat

Instead we hurtle quicker down this dead end street

I'm a scientist of the environment

And since the late 1800s

Me and those like me have been trying our best

To raise the alarm

That rising temps will cause irrevocable harm

Rising sea levels, food insecurity

Extreme weather all causing inequalities

To increase and those with the least

Of course will be hit the hardest like some teeth

With no mouthpiece getting cracked by an uppercut

So buckle up because likely what's coming up

Are wars over resources which are limited

The limits of human adaptability, we're hitting it

Committed already to a certain level of change

Even if we do everything scientists have been saying

But people stuck in their ways, not listening to warnings

So we're frogs in a pot of water quickly warming

Well hello, it's your friendly neighbourhood CEO

Bring the climate change, we could do with less snow

Because less snow equals less rust on my fleet of

Sports vehicles, something I'm in need of

Almost as much as I'm in need of the highest profit margins

Gotta keep these shareholders fed and they're starving

Look, I get it, I'm not unsympathetic

Yes the climate's changing, but let's not forget

It's always been changing since way before we got here

So why the croc tears 'cuz it's getting hotter here

Apply the sun screen, crank the air conditioning

Look life goes on, survival of the fittest and

That's also how life here's always been

So toughen up buttercup, or keep wallowing

In your misery, while you're rendered obsolete

Me personally? I'll keep polishing my fleet

Being a polar bear has never been a walk in the park

Catching a ring seal? Like a shot in the dark

Gotta find then stake out their breathing hole

For hours or even days

Then seize the small opportunity when they emerge for oxygen

Now imagine when there's less ice for walking

Then all of the above becomes harder exponentially

I'm a strong swimmer, but it takes more energy

And don't ask me why the ice is less

Must be humans up to their usual sheistiness

Less time to hunt before we hibernate

Why my weight's dropping at a higher rate

Than ever before, plus my babies dying

I tried everything, even changed my diet

To more land-based food like eggs and berries

But still I'm scared that won't keep me out the cemetery

Did I not give you everything that you ever needed

But in your greed you still managed somehow

To bleed it all dry and bring us to this present state

Temps rising at an unprecedented rate

Loss of biodiversity

Sea levels rising, a true emergency

Urgently gave you warnings repeatedly

But they fell on deaf ears seemingly

'Cuz on you marched, not missing a step

Led by your greed and arrogance, thinking I'd let

You keep taking advantage of my giving nature

Took my kindness for weakness, but now it's time to pay the piper for your actions

Listen to me

If I'm going down, you're going down with me

Moral of the story or should I say verse

Don't mess with me, Mother Earth