Wildfire!

Wildfire!

Dr Abe V Rotor

Forest fire induced by man's greed and folly in the pursuit 

of the so-called Good Life. Painting by the author

When El Niño strikes every seven or ten years;

When loggers destroy and abandon the place;

When kaingeros clear the forest for cash crops;

When careless campers leave their campfires;

When defoliants flush out enemies from their hideouts;

When lightning strikes in the middle of summer;

When squatters build homes clandestinely in the forest;

When the forest is but secondary growth to an original cover;

When a meteor explodes as in the Siberian phenomenon;

When the forest has been disturbed of its ecological balance. ~