Day 17 Prompt: Coffee

Title: Seventeen

Shavings of trunk bark and bow are shredded, to make coffee cups and

Each hectare of coffee bean farming requires the uprooting of seventeen hundred trees

Voracious mining companies commit the same crime against nature and

Even with carbon-neutral replanting ten billion trees are lost annually

None of the affected countries and their land-hungry community care

Then neither do those wielding economic power, for

Every decision made is biased by self-interest, to the point where

Eradication of entire species is deemed acceptable and

Notjust the flora and fauna, but indigenous races too