Where Do The Children Play

Thinking about all these disasters: global warming, the ozone layer, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods and the like ...
and thinking about a blog post from Hermit Jim ...
and thinking about a possible Flood (it's not over yet) in the Houston area ...
made me think back to two songs from "the old days".

One was Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" where she proclaimed: "They paved paradise, put up a parking lot".
Now that, I see in my own surroundings.

The other was Cat Stevens "Where Do The Children Play"

It's almost like both of these artists could see in advance what was happening to our Mother Earth.
Did no one else see this?
Was anything done to stop it?
Is it too late now?
Will we survive?
Will our children survive?

And with all of our ground covered up with concrete ...
Where can the flooding water be absorbed?

"I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me,
Where Do The Children Play?"