Global Warming (song): "How On Earth"

It would interesting for someone to collect on a complete webpage with links to the many global warming protest songs out there, from Madonna to Seeger to the Clash to amateurs around the world, too. I am definitely in the amateur category, but last summer after watching a pirated DVD of “An Incovenient Truth” — which in Taiwan is known in Mandarin as “The Truth That Cannot Show Its Face” — I came up with these simple lyrics, made a home studio video of a Texas guy singing the words for me (he charges just US$19 and sends the mp3 file by email)… but hope to find a professional pop singer to do justice to the words. Give it a listen here. I would love it of Mr Singer could add it to his song list. It’s called “HOW ON EARTH” and the words go like this:

At a climate rally on Saturday in his hometown, Beacon, N.Y., he sang
"My Rainbow Race," a 1967 song that has become something of an anthem
for climate campaigners of late because the lyrics speak of the
atmosphere (and oceans) as shared resources.
One blue sky above us,
One ocean lapping all our shores,
One Earth so green and round,
Who could ask for more?
They also, in classic Pete Seeger fashion, toss a dart at those impeding change.
Some folks want to be like an ostrich,
Bury their heads in the sand.
Some hope that plastic dreams
Can unclench all those greedy hands.
And they speak of intergenerational obligations, which I explored here
not long ago in a post asking "What does the present owe the future?"
Go tell, go tell all the little children.
Tell all their mothers and fathers, too –
Now's our last chance to learn to share
What's been given to me and you.

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/pete-seeger-and-the-one-blue-sky-above-us/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2YqAZ0Jmfc

An Anti-Global Warming Anthem from Pete Seeger

Turns out the Climate Crisis Coalition may have found an anthem for the growing movement -- written by the great Pete Seeger. We wouldn't know, probably, if it weren't for Andrew Revkin and his bleep-kicking Dot Earth blog, which is systematically putting the rest of us climate bloggers in the shade. But as long as Andy keeps coming up with material this good, I'm not complaining...I just wish we could hear the whole song without interruption -- reminds me of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"

Well, maybe Pete will be inspired to take it on tour. Here's hoping. See the YouTube version

How on earth (incessantly)?

Tax carbon (incessantly)
Without delay

If the message is sung, it might be more convincing. See and hear "THE CO2 SONG": http://lfqc.org/indexco2e.htm Hortense Michaud-Lalanne , aka Professeure Philosoft — Posted by Hortense Michaud-Lalanne

Your song is good. It might help raise awareness of global warming. Keep going.

re your idea of "polar cities" from your blog: http://climatechange3000.blogspot.com

No ...I was not aware of Polar Cites explicitly.... or even the concept.......
Although an interesting idea to contemplate, this is quite far outside
my area of paleoclimatology. I am not prepared to venture a guess as to
whether we will need polar cities 500 years from now - but certainly in the
more near term (100 years) I suspect cities will look quite different from
today. Although thinking about how the future will develop is fun, history
shows that many things that were expected never materialized while many
other unanticipated devices did attain reality. It will be exciting to see
how we design the energy mix to meet the challenges of the next 100 years.
best regards,
E.

cool. 100 + hits in just 2 days...... i hope we get 10,000 hits in a year....