Earth Day - Don't be a "Plooter"

Bhutan is a very environmentally aware country, and they strive to educate their children about conservation. In honor of Earth Day, we are posting a poem by Sonam Jobgay, one of the Class VI students at the Elementary School in the village of Shelmakha. We saw this poem hung up at the school when we visited Shelmakha in 2007.


We Are Plooters - Poem

We are plooters
We don't care
We make messes
Everywhere

We strip forests
Bare of trees
We dump garbage
In the Sea

We are plooters
We enjoy
Finding Beauty
To destroy

We intrude
Where creatures thrive
Soon there's little
Left alive

Under water
Under ground
Nothing safe
When we're around

We spew poisons
In the air
We are plooters
We don't care

Sonam Jobgay
Class VI