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- A Mass for Liberalsby Rafael Rodriguez ('71)The world of the future will be quite different from the world of today Paris is worth a mass, one Henry IV would say..and the world changed Shall we give roses from Holland or from Kenya today? one rose from the latter uses 80 times more CFC’s to produce.. All of our dearest values have been challenged: faith, work ethic, family, One day our children may be called Gaby and they will live in Abu Dhabi, From which they will rule the new world The oceans will be different, we’ll be fishing in the arctic; The tropics will be empty but for oil rigs and transients, and The equator, even less populated, the heat will be unbearable except to the birds And the explorers who control in Buckminster Fuller’s bubbles the ambient air, Activities await now to unravel in the new frontier, the Antartica! For (global) warming DID occur, the seas rose seven meters and cities were submerged We drove ourselves mad with calculations and politics which teetered us Into a new Age of Technology and Environment, How green was my valley! How green it should be again! But how easy it is now to move about, using the new Transportation system, using those Maglev trains, my favorite! And we heat again with (clean) coal, Progress is now the Goddess again! [ Beam me up Scotty! ] Governments will be either authoritarian, or liberal, Human Rights are not questioned Everyone knows them and is agreeable to them, the UN Charter will be more respected, Finally is true to itself, but opportunities are limited, still, one half of humanity supports the other half, albeit in a sustainable way While vagrants and vagabonds have no say, as always, they now have options for living Wars are no more in this environment, humanity hugs itself, where are you my friends? |
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