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Doug's avatar

I have a project I have been working on, a “climate grief” song cycle as the basis for a presentation. The first one is written and a poorly recorded version is on my sub stack as a podcast. “Denial” is where most people are at right now.

I find it difficult to write “anger” music, so I asked my 30-year-old daughter for some ideas…. What I got back was white hot. She understands the state of the world and is PISSED that the people who have largely benefited from raping the world and destroying our climate carrying capacity are still in charge and incapable of making decisions to address the emergency.

As a society we don’t have the stomach for looking out the window at what is really happening and facing the very harsh realities. We would rather focus on the next hour of entertainment….

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

There is so much that has contributed to the mess we are in. Citizens (billionaires) United caused a huge influx of dark money into our politics.

Corporations are people.

The destabilization and degradation of our protective agencies, like the EPA and the Department of Agriculture, into rubber stamps for the worst polluters.

The audacity of waiting. Nero comes to mind.

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