{"id":4347,"date":"2024-02-04T14:40:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T19:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2024-02-04T14:59:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T19:59:58","slug":"climate-rocks-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2024\/02\/climate-rocks-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Rocks Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last year I wrote a Climate Rocks post, with lots of songs about climate change. It&#8217;s time for part 2, with a whole load more songs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1) G. T., &#8220;How Dare You&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year&#8217;s post ended with The 1975, and a song that put a Geta Thunberg speech to music, as a sort of spoken poem. But The 1975 are not the only ones to set Greta Thunberg&#8217;s words to music. Here&#8217;s a wonderful(!) one by John Meredith (aka G.T.) &#8211; the drummer for the band Suaka. He morphs Greta&#8217;s &#8220;How Dare You&#8221; speech into a Swedish Death Metal song&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, I know, but hear me out. It works. It&#8217;s worth a listen! For more on this song, see<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/greta-thunberg-swedish-death-metal-892000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> this article in Rolling Stone.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greta Thunberg sings Swedish Death Metal\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CLxpgRqxtEA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2) Delusion Squared, &#8220;In My Time of Dying&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Greta Thunberg isn&#8217;t the only youth climate activist to have her words set to music. Back in 1992, Severn Suzuki gave a speech to the Rio Earth summit when she was 12 years old. The song is &#8220;In My Time of Dying&#8221; by Delusion Squared (who also featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/progressiverockcentral.com\/2022\/02\/20\/midnight-oil-resist\/\" title=\"\">the last Climate Rocks post<\/a>) sets this speech to music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a song about denial: &#8220;They were truly frightening \/ The things we were denying \/ In my time of dying&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jun\/11\/severn-cullis-suzuki-earth-summit-speech-greta-thunberg\" title=\"\">Severn&#8217;s speech made headlines around the world<\/a>, particularly for the phrase &#8220;If you don\u2019t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it.&#8221; It was hailed as the speech that silenced the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying, &#8220;Everything&#8217;s going to be all right; it\u2019s not the end of the world, and we&#8217;re doing the best we can.&#8221; But I don\u2019t think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Delusion Squared -  In My Time Of Dying\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cAGP_y0cC2I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3) Childish Gambino, &#8220;Feels Like Summer&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up is a subtle one. It&#8217;s Childish Gambino, with an innocuous sounding song called &#8220;Feels Like Summer&#8221;. At first, it sounds like one of those upbeat Earth Wind &amp; Fire songs celebrating happy things. And the video really plays this up. But listen carefully to the lyrics, and watch for small clues in the video that something is wrong&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lyrics to &#8220;Feels Like Summer&#8221; start out harmless enough:<br>&#8220;You can feel it in the streets \/<br>On a day like this, the heat \/<br>It feel like summer&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then it shifts gears without skipping a beat:<br>&#8220;Seven billion souls that move around the sun \/<br>Rolling faster, faster, not a chance to slow down&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Till we get to:<br>&#8220;Every day gets hotter than the one before \/<br>Running out of water, it&#8217;s about to go down \/<br>Go down&#8221;<br>Still in the same upbeat tone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brutal. The video really picks up this juxtaposition. It depicts Donald Glover walking through his neighbourhood, but every character is a celebrity: they&#8217;re all famous rappers or Black figures. So the video distracts you from the lyrics: we&#8217;re all so focussed on celebrity gossip, we&#8217;re ignoring the little signs of environmental collapse all around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BTW if you want a full breakdown of who all the characters in the video are, Wikipedia has you covered:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Feels_Like_Summer_(Childish_Gambino_song)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Feels_Like_Summer_(Childish_Gambino_song)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the cultural references went straight over my head, but I did laugh at the one of Kanye West in a MAGA hat crying his eyes out while being comforted by Michelle Obama&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Childish Gambino - Feels Like Summer\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F1B9Fk_SgI0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4) Anohni, &#8220;4 Degrees&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up is Anohni, with &#8220;4 Degrees&#8221;. I wasn&#8217;t sure about this one when I first heard it:&nbsp;<br>&#8220;I wanna burn the sky, I wanna burn the breeze \/ I wanna see the animals die in the trees \/<br>Oh, let&#8217;s go, let&#8217;s go, it&#8217;s only four degrees&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song was written just before the Paris Agreement in 2015, when climate projections were suggesting the world would warm by 4 degrees by the end of the century. The song seems to be saying: bring it on&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Really, it\u2019s a piece of reverse psychology. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/r3zj3w\/anohni-interview-2015\" title=\"\">In interviews about the song<\/a>, Anohni describes her deep concern about climate change, and her struggle to come to terms with her own carbon footprint. The song is about being accountable: it expresses the implications of how we behave, rather than our intent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty powerful song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anohni - 4 Degrees (Unofficial Climate Crisis Edinburgh video)\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3JM7Di6e2rg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5) Paul McCartney, &#8220;Despite Repeated Warnings&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up is a song from Paul McCartney, written in 2018, called &#8220;Despite Repeated Warnings&#8221;, inspired by a newspaper article about climate change containing that phrase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In interviews, McCartney confirmed he was thinking of&nbsp;Trump:&nbsp;<br>&#8220;The captain\u2019s crazy \/<br>But he doesn\u2019t let them know it \/<br>He\u2019ll take us with him \/<br>If we don\u2019t do something \/<br>Soon to slow it&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Despite Repeated Warnings\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5vDVZNOFMEM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6) Bad Religion, &#8220;Kyoto Now!&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s time for some punk: Bad Religion\u2019s song \u201cKyoto Now!\u201d, released in 2002.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kyoto protocol, of course, was the first ever international agreement to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Signed in Dec &#8217;97, it didn\u2019t enter into force until enough countries had ratified it to cover 55% of all global CO2 emissions. That took until 2005.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe an unusual topic for a punk song, but it captures the anger people felt at the time. A lot of the anger was directed at the US.&nbsp;While Clinton signed the Kyoto agreement in 1997, he never sent it to the US Senate for ratification, because the senate had already passed a resolution (95-0) saying the US should not sign any agreement unless developing countries were also required to reduce emissions. After his election, George W Bush made it clear he would never agree to it.&nbsp;So the US never ratified it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not to be outdone, Canada &#8211; under Conservative prime minister Steven Harper &#8211; eventually withdrew from the Kyoto protocol in 2011. Although at that point, given Canada\u2019s emissions had actually risen by 17% since 1990 rather than falling, the decision to withdraw was largely irrelevant.&nbsp;Being a huge petro-state, Canada wasn\u2019t going to act on it anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All these political maneuverings are captured well in the song:<br>\u201cThe media parading \/<br>Disjointed politics \/<br>Founded on petrochemical plunder \/<br>And we&#8217;re its hostages\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And because this is punk, the song even acknowledges its own futility:<br>\u201cYou might not think it matters now \/<br>But what if you were wrong? \/<br>You might not think there&#8217;s any wisdom \/<br>In a fucked up punk rock song\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bad Religion - Kyoto Now (With Lyrics)\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4mslj4wVS3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7) Gojira, &#8220;Gobal Warming&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s continue to explore different music genres. This one might be termed progressive death metal (it certainly has the growling in it).&nbsp;The song is &#8220;Global Warming&#8221;, by the French band&nbsp;Gojira, written for their environmentally themed concept album &#8220;From Mars to Sirius&#8221;, in 2005. Fast and furious, once again, a song that channels anger at the state of the planet. Worth a listen, even if you never listen to&nbsp;Death Metal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The title is obvious, the lyrics perhaps less so. The singer is channelling the view of the planet itself:<br>&#8220;And when I see the smoke around \/<br>I feel like I&#8217;m not from humankind down there \/<br>I feel like glaciers are my eyes \/<br>And mountains are my head, my heart is ocean&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But rather than descending into misanthropy, the song bends towards hope:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I had this dream, our planet surviving&#8221;, and ending on the repeated line:<br>&#8220;We will see our children growing&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gojira - Global Warming [Live at the Silver Cord Studio May 2018]\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8DiWzvE52ZY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8) Steel Pulse, &#8220;Global Warning&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Continuing our tour of music genres, this one is a reggae song from Steel Pulse, called &#8220;Global Warning&#8221;.&nbsp;It&#8217;s from their 2004 album African Holocaust, which tackles a range of themes around racial oppression, African Nationalism and Rastafarianism.&nbsp;This song focusses on the link between colonialism and environmental destruction, and the need to stand up for change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, the song isn\u2019t specifically about climate change (note the spelling of the title), and it name-checks wildlife extinction, acid rain, pollution in the water, and deforestation. It elegantly connects the clearing of forests with the need for political resistance:&nbsp;<br>\u201cStand up and be counted \/ Don&#8217;t ever let them chop us down, hey.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it couches the whole message in Rastafarianism:<br>\u201cDestroying earth was not Jah&#8217;s plan \/&nbsp;<br>It&#8217;s the work of man\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of relevance: <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/book\/7074\/chapter\/151571028\" title=\"\">this article on the symbolism of \u201cBabylon\u201d in reggae<\/a>. Babylon is taken as a symbol both of the decadent culture of colonial oppressors and a target for pan-African consciousness, as in the term \u201cBeating down Babylon\u201d. And a biting critique of western democracy as a sham (a \u201cde mockroicy\u201d), in which politicians are scam artists, pretending to be representatives of the people, while really just enriching themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steel Pulse - Global Warning\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xCrWjDK4hng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">9) Pitbull, &#8220;Global Warming&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Still continuing our genre tour, this one is a rap song called &#8220;Global Warming&#8221; by&nbsp;Pitbull, from his 2012 album, also called Global Warming. It&#8217;s a very short song (1:24), and acts as an introduction to the album. So even if you don&#8217;t normally dig rap, take a listen&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song starts with a very clear message:<br>&#8220;Category 6&#8217;s are stormin&#8217; \/<br>Take this as a, take this as a warning \/<br>Welcome to, welcome to global warming&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then he proceeds to critique the choice of things rappers sing about, with a (perhaps too subtle) critique of the obsession with glamour and the lifestyles of the rich, with their private jets:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s all about them billionaires \/<br>I&#8217;m so fucking serious \/<br>Look, I love them zeros, they looking like Cheerios&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly,\u00a0Pitbull&#8217;s songs rarely contain environmental messages, he just names his albums that way:<br>2012: &#8220;Global Warming&#8221;<br>2014: &#8220;Globalization&#8221;<br>2017: &#8220;Climate Change&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitbullupdates.com\/2017\/03\/17\/pitbull-talks-climate-change-the-album-and-the-weather-pattern-more-with-radio-com\/\" title=\"\">In interviews, he says<\/a>: &#8220;If I made a record about [climate change], nobody would listen to it. I make records for people to have a good time, [&#8230;] but with the titles, they start to connect the dots like a treasure hunt that I put together for them&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pitbull - Global Warming (The Global Warming Listening Party)  ft. Sensato\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q7xBoh0emqo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">10) Amarok, &#8220;Hero&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This one is a lovely melodic rock song called &#8220;Hero&#8221;, from the Polish band Amarok. It starts out with what sounds like a fragment from a Greta Thunberg speech:&nbsp;<br>&#8220;Now the eyes of all generations are upon you.&nbsp;<br>The planet is dying, destroyed, sick of consumerism.&nbsp;<br>Most people don&#8217;t even notice it&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not actually Greta, but channels her style almost perfectly. The voice is Marta Wojtas, who does backing vocals and writes all the lyrics for the band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song is about our need for heroes, and the internal struggles faced by those in the climate movement that we treat as heroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s perhaps my favourite song in the entire thread so far. Take a listen &#8211; it&#8217;s a gorgeous song&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amarok - Hero (Official)\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ISvVFCX2vrI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">11) Ela Minus, &#8220;Megapunk&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To mark the passing of another useless COP meeting, we need a protest song: Ela Minus with Megapunk, from her 2020 album &#8220;Acts of Rebellion&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the album version, there&#8217;s no other voices than Ela&#8217;s own lyrics (&#8220;You won&#8217;t make us stop&#8221;), but when she play it live, she mixes in other voice samples, so I&#8217;m sharing this version which includes samples from a Greta Thunberg speech. Amazing how many&nbsp;climate songs&nbsp;Greta has inspired!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ela&#8217;s music is usually described as electro-pop, but I much prefer the term DIY techno-punk I saw in one review. Or, as she describes it: &#8220;bright music for dark times&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Megapunk is the perfect upbeat protest song:&nbsp;<br>&#8220;We can\u2019t seem to find \/&nbsp;<br>A reason to stay quiet \/&nbsp;<br>We\u2019re afraid we\u2019ll run out of time&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and<br>&#8220;You don&#8217;t want to understand \/&nbsp;<br>You&#8217;re choosing to lead us apart \/<br>But against all odds \/<br>You still won&#8217;t make us stop&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ela Minus - Full Performance (Live on KEXP at Home)\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M0RklKDP2hk?start=818&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">12) Macy Gray, &#8220;All I Want For Christmas&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Time for a festive tune from&nbsp;Macy Gray, called &#8220;All I Want for Christmas&#8221;. It&#8217;s packed full of sensible Christmas wishes:<br>&#8220;All I want for Christmas is a whole bunch of stuff \/<br>But anything that you can buy me won&#8217;t be enough \/<br>&#8216;Cause everything I&#8217;m hoping for is intangible \/<br>Like free health care and gun control&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Makes me wonder why there aren&#8217;t more seasonal songs like this. Too earnest?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macy&#8217;s verse on climate change is pretty straightforward:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;All I want for Christmas is to have a chance \/<br>So please take care of the environment \/<br>Take Mr. Gore more seriously \/<br>And do what you can to stop global warming&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mr Gore reference dates it a bit, but then it praises &#8220;Barack&#8221;, and:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I hope that your successor<br>Does the things he or she should \/<br>That Mr. Trump, he&#8217;s an entertaining guy \/<br>But let&#8217;s face it, really is he qualified?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understated, perhaps?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Macy Gray - All I Want For Christmas (Lyric Video)\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fpCBFoWDemQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">13) Midnight Oil, &#8220;Rising Seas&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Last&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fediscience.org\/tags\/ClimateRocks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#ClimateRocks<\/a>&nbsp;for this post. After a year of record temperatures, and useless climate policy negotiations, what could be more fitting than&nbsp;Midnight Oil&#8217;s &#8220;Rising Seas&#8221;, from their 2022 album Resist (featuring the warming stripes on the cover).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Every child put down your toys\/<br>And come inside to sleep\/<br>We have to look you in the eye and say we sold you cheap\/<br>Let&#8217;s confess we did not act<br>With serious urgency\/<br>So open up the floodgates<br>To the rising seas&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I included a Midnight Oil song in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2023\/06\/climate-rocks\/\" title=\"\">my previous Climate Rocks post<\/a>: Beds are Burning, which is often assumed to be about climate change, but is really about Indigenous Land rights. 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