Have you read the poem "Global Warming"?

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Storms of Global Warming send us to Space.
Storms of overpopulation...to Mars.
Humanity will settle strange planets...
Remembering their kind ran the gauntlet

Of Man versus Nature, and almost won
At a cost they were not prepared to pay.
An o-ring brought one Shuttle down, to sea...
Tiles claimed another. We are the Species

Whose Manifest Destiny is the stars.
Stop now...and we crawled on land for nothing.
Stop now...and our Earth will have Tomorrow
On terms we can't run from, trade, or borrow.

Remember this day...Endeavor's true worth...
A massive storm brought this Shuttle to Earth.

Andrew M · Accepted Answer

Good Morning!!!..Yes it's filled with irony........And a lot of truth 

I really did enjoy this one ........As I do the others.........Thanks for sharing

Good Morning!!

? · Answer

All I can say is that I loved the fact that "Stop now" was repeated at the beginning of consecutive lines. A sign?
Not only are we crawling on Earth for nothing, but we're just a bad case of head lice that she'll eventually take care of, and soon.
And what about that ending couplet? That said it all.
Way to make us think today.

♥ Celine ♥ · Answer

Yessssssss......
Very true indicator of the future...
The yet to come....


Hidden in the cloud,
Hovering over us like a shroud,

Where East meets West...
Endeavor was put to the test.

Hurricanes, gale force winds, destructive rain...
To control weather would be our gain.

Victory over space is ours someday...
But right now weather is in the way.

We must be kinder to our planet called Earth...
Alarms go off...for what its worth....

Is anyone listening, we shout..we cry...
If our earth dies...we die.

You made a good point Elys and leave an open window for further exploration.

Elaine P...is for Poetry · Answer

Your poem says it all.  We must keep trying.  Actually, NASA has been working on simulating conditions on Mars and on terraforming the planet.  This is true, no longer science fiction. But unless we change our attitudes, we'll change any planet on which we settle into a dying Earth.  We need more than science to survive; we need understanding of our partnership with the planet, no matter its name or location in the Universe.

woodtech09 · Answer

No I haven't this is very modern day thought provoking work is there any particular category you go to at Barnes and noble or the Library to find works like this please leave a comment when you pick your best answer or you can feel free to email I look at you contact list and I see your quite busy so I will understand if you can't Your coffee chewing friend told me of you and emailed me this

neonman · Answer

This does have irony printed in bold letters on it!   Manifest destiny has always risen in times to tempt those that probably knew best  yet went with sentiment.  Well penned.

oscarsix5 · Answer

How are we going to go?

BOLDLY!

Where are we going to go?

WHERE NO MAN HAS BEEN BEFORE!

Where exactly?

SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER!

Too bad one of the best mission statement ever written is about a fictional ship and crew......for now that is!  Science fiction has a very strange way of becoming science fact.

dark bubble · Answer

We should all take hed of the warnings, or we will have crawled on Earth for nothing.

guitar_hero_gurl94 · Answer

That's a really interesting poem and no I haven't read it... I guess I'm not really sure what your question is though. Just asking if anyone has read it?

Anonymous · Answer

No I haven't but I like it...agree with Lilly, though.

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