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IF the climate was COVID-19, this wish list would prevail For this wishful wish list, the unjust carbon sins prevail Human kind never anticipate­d, what kind of human is human kind

Never saw it coming, but hit by surprise, panic and uncertaint­ies

As the 21st Century Armageddon and biocide for the climate

The climate change in an accelerati­ng changing climate

If climate change was COVID-19, the environmen­t would be sanitised

If climate change was COVID-19, the polluters would be vaccinated and masked

Carbon emitters, forest plunders and polluters would be locked indoors

Never to pollute again, taste the just medicine of their climate injustices

If climate change was COVID-19, climate injustices would be recorded and monitored daily

There would been no Conference of Parties (COPs) due to travel restrictio­ns and daily curfews

World leaders would neither embrace nor shake hands, so they can’t spread climate sins

No palms would be greased with greenbacks but with the transparen­t smelly liquid

To sanitise their sins for polluting the environmen­t with the anointing smelly liquid

If climate change was COVID-19, emissions, toxins, deforestat­ions and degradatio­ns

Would be monitored and tested by the non-contact infrared thermomete­r

Carbon sinners and eco-freaks would be quarantine­d

Never to grace the Conference of Parties (COPs) and get detained

Never to receive their share of greenbacks, their major concern

 ?? Peter Makwanya ??
Peter Makwanya

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