Succession

Climate change
The price of progress, an excuse
Mining for gold, to fund a capitalist dream
Of material we choose to produce

Cutting down trees
Rooted for thousands of years
Biodiversity destroyed
To make way for industrial gears

Killing habitats
A method of manufacturing
Breaking the chains of food
To profit from hydraulic fracturing

Burning fossil fuels
To generate chemical ammunition
Clouds retaliate and administer acid
To restore balance by deposition

Radiation, a slow poison
Scarring the surface and dictating drought
Fertile ground becomes hostile
As water is seldom throughout

A pioneer of succession
In regions where life cannot be sustained
The aftermath of mass extinction
A path which can be restrained