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You Cannot Eat Money
<blockquote><em><strong>“Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, and the last river poisoned, will we realize that we cannot eat money.”</strong></em></blockquote><p><em><strong><br/></strong></em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em><br/></em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>You Cannot Eat Money.</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em><br/></em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Say it louder—let it sting,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Let it haunt your gilded ring,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Let it echo in your sleep,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Through the silence buried deep.</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em><br/></em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>When the markets crash to dust,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>When your empires choke on rust,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>When the air turns thick and thin,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Tell me—what will you breathe in?</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em><br/></em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>You burned the future for a price,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Called your cruelty “sacrifice,”</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Dressed it up in tailored lies,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>While the whole world slowly dies.</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em><br/></em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Now the oceans will not feed you,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Now the broken earth won’t heed you,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Now the sky denies you rain,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>All your power, all in vain.</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em><br/></em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Still you reach for one more gain,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Still you tighten every chain,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Even as the ending nears—</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Deafened by your greed and fears.</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em><br/></em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>So build your throne on bones and clay,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Count your riches while you may,</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>But when the final hour is sunny—</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em><br/></em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>Remember this:</em></p><p style="text-align: center; "><em>You Cannot Eat Money.</em></p>
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