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on Sheila Ash (India), 15/Jun/2018 06:17, 34 days ago
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With industrial baggageour factories ravageour beloved Earth’s insides.The environmental clocktick tocks swiftly on.Population ever growing,ever showing our increasingindulgence . Productionchurning out carbon dioxideIts wrath grows warmer.Corporations cut cornersEconomic rape lies undiscoveredNo escape. Smotheredin the burnt out precast blocksStark charcoaledgrey smoke filled daysThe city shocked.Let’s clad our towers in red flowersnot red flames of deathLet’s build instead Bosco Verticalesdesigned ethicallygreen oxygen giving breath.Let’s plan avenues of acers in the airboulevards of bromeliadsskyways of sycamores.Let a garden city in the sky arisea pensile paradisepraising vitalitya phoenix eulogy for the 72 who diedwhere those who survived can live with pridehealing deep, like the ground underneath.© Sheila Ash, 2018https://www.dezeen.com/2014/05/15/stefano-boeri-bosco-verticale-vertical-forest-milan-skyscrapers/ashramblings
