Oh dear, I see the polar ice caps melt The northern polar ice cap melts but completely The southern polar ice cap shrinks to a miniature version of itself And yes, the fresh water of the former ice And there had been much ice! Changes the salinity of the sea There had been enough ice over the surface of the ocean And underneath the surface of the ocean That when all this ice melts into fresh water It is enough to change the ocean’s salinity And the sea life is confused And yes, there is a great loss of life within the ocean For sea life had evolved for a certain particular range of salinity And this salinity has changed too quickly for sea life to adapt to it, to evolve with it And much of the ocean life either drops to the bottom and lands on the ocean floor Or floats on the ocean surface for man to observe in dismay And yes, water in liquid form takes up more volume than water in solid form And so the ocean now needs more room And so the ocean now takes up more room And so the land now has less room As the ocean claims the space it needs And man watches in dismay as the sea level rises Man watches in dismay as the islands All the small islands scattered about the globe disappear from view They no longer appear in the satellite pictures Where there had been land scattered about here and there Is now ocean and ocean only Man watches in dismay as the sea level rises Man watches in dismay as the land’s shoreline is swallowed up by the ocean, as are all his beachfront properties Man watches in dismay And I see men in boats picking up the carcasses of the dead sea animal life And I see scientists scooping up sea animal life And placing them in aquariums in an attempt to save these species But man is fighting a losing battle Fighting it valiantly But losing it nonetheless For sea life has lost its home Sea life has lost its home Sea life has lost its home And the fishermen of the world are now out of work, out of a livelihood And now corporations are formed that breed and feed and grow edible sea life In sea farms that appear to be more like factories Than the ocean that sea life was accustomed to And the sea life that grows in these factories is depressed And devoid of joy in life And that transmits itself into the cells of their being And when man eats this seafood, man is not nourished For the food is dead The food is dead The food is dead And man grows restless. Had seafood always been so tasteless? And man smothers seafood in chemicals to give it ‘artificial flavor’ But man does not know how to give imprisoned sea life With the life force needed to nourish man And man eats the seafood from the sea farms but is not nourished No, man is not nourished Man is not nourished But man copes Man copes Man copes He grows used to this new seafood He forgets that it had ever been any other way He forgets what a delicacy lobster had been And does not recognize how bland and lacking in flavor and nutrition it now is Man truly thinks that this is not such a major catastrophe We are coping We are coping We are coping Man is in denial He thinks by breeding seafood in sea farms he is coping And does not see that he is producing a poor imitation of the original An imitation that does not serve man But deceives him and lulls him into a false sense of security A false sense that all is still well with the world A false sense that life is continuing When it is, in fact, dying When it is, in fact, dying When it is, in fact, dying