As long as we’re on the topic (for the last time, at least for a good long while) I decided to move this post up (and several others still to appear).
The context is this video by Katie Goodman of Broad Comedy. It’s a little ditty that uses “f**ked” as a hook and to entertain, but that nonetheless touches on some important points relevant to mobilizing the public.
For most of the points I am going to do no more than note them in the expectation of returning to them at some later time. You may argue that I read too much into a comedic song, but I think that the lyrics resonate with the audience because they touch on truths regardless of the light nature of this particular context.
OK, that’s understated. In a microcosm it pretty much sums up where we are and why we are stuck here. Kudos to Katie for raising those points, but the really scary interesting scary thing about this video is the comments people made about it.
First watch the video if you care to (and are not too offended by the F-word) and then we can get to my points.
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When I first saw the video my immediate thought was that it should be the anthem for the youth climate justice movement. Let’s take a quick walk through some of the lyrics:
There’s never been a time
as fucked up as this
No argument there, not for humans anyway. Maybe the Toba eruption, and I understand the PETM was pretty nasty for most species, but that’s pedantic quibbling.
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