Sahel

Industrialists increase the profit margin.
Factories and manufacturing plants
Blossom, sprouting towers and chimneys

Belching sulphur dioxide.

Scientists research long-term effects
Laboratories and conical flasks
Experiment, calculating data and graphs

Denying global damage.

Politicians debate developing countries
Continents and emerging nations
Negotiate, arranging deals and foreign aid

Selling military hardware.

Meteorologists expound by super map
Symbols and directional arrows
Pointing, explaining aerosols and thermal balance

Rationalising eternal drought

Children search the dried riverbed
Dust and desiccation cracks
Withhold, concealing bulbs and sustenance

Starving famined infants.

Martin Delemare
13th June 2002