Second attempt

THE END?

Now’s the end of global warming.
We didn’t heed the urgent warning,
Drove our cars and flew our planes,
Overloaded all our mains;

Gas and oil we reckless used,
All resources we abused.
Wasted water and wasted food,
Never thought of planet’s good.

Icebergs melt and oceans rise,
Swamp the land and gain the prize.
Gulf stream’s gone and so is heat,
Now the process is complete.

Never more a summer’s day;
Permafrost is here to stay.
Cold as never known before,
Ice creeps over forest floor,

Hear the crack as branches splinter.
In the new and cruel winter
Rivers freeze, and lakes, and ponds.
Crystals form on the green fronds

Of palm trees in once tropic lands.
Hoar frost appears on desert sands;
Ice stifles all, six metres deep.
And none, not one, survives to weep.