Not an Island

A little poetry for you:

We walk on earth
we look after,
like rainbow sitting on top.
But something underneath,
under the ground.
We don't know.
You don't know.
What do you want to do?
If you touch,
you might get cyclone, heavy rain or flood.
Not just here,
you might kill someone in another place.
Might be kill him in another country.
You cannot touch him.

- Big Bill Neidjie, Gagadju Man
as quoted in the book "The Weather Makers" on climate change. (the US release has a subtitle of "How man is changing the climate and what it means for life on earth")

Big Bill was an aboriginal Australian. With perhaps a more stewardly view of the earth than eager little capitalists...