If you're wondering how/ you can stop the pollution,/ Here are things you can do/ for an easy solution."" Stokes' solution is not only easy but fatuous, as outlined in fourteen blandly didactic rhymes exhorting readers to recycle, plant trees, shun bug spray, fix drips, etc. They're all the sort of platitude that proliferated a few years ago when ecology became a fad; let's hope we've advanced since then, if only in sensibility.