The article discusses how poetry and science can play constructive role in society. It refers two scientists in divergent fields like Lesley Battler working in petrochemical industry and Madhur Anand professor of theoretical ecologist show how their poems like "Endangered Hydrocarbons" and “Truth, Power and the Politics of Carbon Capture" by Battler exposes machinations of corporate oil and kickbacks. Anand's poems often touches industrial machinery and irony of middle class life.