They burn down forests. They do not give back to nature adequately.
The poem gains more force as the farmersthemselves speak about their destructivemethods to gain money. The poet does not criticize the farmers alone but makes us sharethe guilt and he collectively talks about thehuman race rather than the farmers as a group.The poem is more effective as the blame mistaken by the farmers in an ironical way.
They do no hard work but live a life ofluxury. Car, television and fridge. Theysay they have worked hard to gain thematerial benefits with scant regard fornature. The poet does not agree with thisway of thinking. This is ironical as theywork hard to produce this negative results
It is something to be ashamed of as wetamper with nature unmindful of theconsequences. The animals and birds losetheir homes and we leave barren land forfuture generations. The ecological balanceis affected. The trees are burnt to ashes bythe greedy farmers to make way for moreagricultural land
We devastate nature and give her nothing tocompensate for the loss. The reasoning is wrong on two grounds. Firstly, nature has endowed us with herbounty still we do not give her anything in return.Secondly, the earth is not ours alone as it belongs toevery creature of God. If we continue to misuse ourland irresponsibly, we will leave an infertile earth as alegacy to the coming generations. We are self-centered and short-sighted and deplete the naturalresources of the land out of ignorance. They make money by building houses in the place instead.
It sums up the poet's comment that materialism has taken overlove for nature and our indebtedness to her.
