The Poem as a Spoof

Continuing off of what Tony and Ben said earlier about how Anne Sexton's poem "Venus and the Ark", the poem emphasizes to mock the story of Noah's Ark with a modern twist. Unlike the idealistic view of humanity's survival in Evan Almighty, Anne Sexton states that humanity's apathy towards nature and restraint will be the end of all life. Sexton states that some of the innovation that mankind creates is not always for the better such as the atom bomb, missiles and the human trait of greed. Greed for oil and anarchy is encouraged by humanity's need for attention and self-destruction. As a result the PHDs are defamed since they hold the responsibility of progressing mankind and instead they are ready to destroy it. Like industrialists and Russian oil moguls, they hold the responsibilities of providing consumer goods or raw minerals respectively. Instead, for the most part they exploit the markets and the country's or industry's economic policies to make massive profits. In theory, they are supposed to be beneficial but sacrifice integrity for personal gain.
Similarly, the PHDs held the responsibility of warning mankind of the oncoming dangers but instead stood by and watched. Furthermore, they stood by and watched as the world burned (Dark Knight reference?). My final comment on this poem and its satiric nature is that as nature progressed and recovered on its own, the world could not learn by example. The bees, the plants and every other living being recovered and embraced life before the imminent apocalypse but the humanity destroyed itself. With or without regard for Earth's other inhabitants, humans ended the world as every other species tried to save it.