Are You Happy Now?

by Charlotte Clarke, Izzy Cook, Ellie Clapp aged 12-13

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Dear climate killers,

Are you happy with yourself?
Are you happy that you have caused mass destruction?
People’s futures are ruined.
Are you happy now?

Are you happy now that polar bears have no home
or maybe there hope is drifting on single slither of ice.
Do you enjoy watching as 750 billion tons of ice caps
melt into a black hole of nothingness.
Are you happy now?

Are you happy with the clouds lingering above our heads?
The ones filled with carbon.
Oh yes, you know.
The ones that have come to take our future.
The ones you created.
Yes you! Over there!
All of you!
Are you happy now?

Are you happy with the overflowing oceans
that swallow islands whole?
The last few fish and the turtles
killed with plastic straws.
The copper killed coral is calling your name
and pleading for forgiveness.
Are you listening?
Are you happy now?

Are you happy? Happy, happy, happy!
No of course you’re not! Nothing ever pleases you!
Not the clogged-up clouds or the bare polar bears.
Not even the suffocating smog or the blistering blizzards.
Nothing.
Are you happy?

Take a moment to think.
Take a last look at our evaporating Earth.
One last look till you move onto planet B like you always do.
Well let me tell you, there is no planet B.
There is no superhero to come to your aid.
There is no fairytale potion to get you out of this nightmare.
Are you happy now?

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