Bruce Cockburn | Climate Control Center for the World…

March 26, 2008 at 12:15 pm · Filed under ACTivism, Canadians, Capitalizm, Climate Change, Consumption, Democra-see?, Educational, Healthy Living, Moviez, Musicians, Politically INcorrect, SHOCKED & AWED, Socialism, USA Death Machine!, WORLD NEWS, YouTUBE and tagged: Ecology, Self-Preservation

Heard the news today (Oh Boy!) about a huge piece of the ICE SHELF Breaking off near Canada’s Arctic… Remember when you were first warned about climate “change” – Global WARMING – RAIN FOREST? – That was Twenty YEARS ago!!

Canadian BRUCE COBURN’s “If A Tree Falls…” – from his 1989 album “Big Circumstance”

After hearing this song for the hundredth time I’m still speechless. Stunningly fine guitarist, astonishingly exquisite songwriter.

The more i learn about consumers the less i want to. As far as extinction of the human species i say why not but they should be made to clean up their mess before they (we) leave 🙂

Lyrics:

Rain forest
Mist and mystery
Teeming green
Green brain facing lobotomy
Climate control center for the world
Ancient cord of coexistence
Hacked by parasitic greedhead scam –
From Sarawak to Amazonas
Costa Rica to mangy B.C. hills –
Cortege rhythm of falling timber.

What kind of currency grows in these new deserts,
These brand new flood plains?

If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?
Anybody hear the forest fall?

Cut and move on
Cut and move on
Take out trees
Take out wildlife at a rate of species every single day
Take out people who’ve lived with this for 100,000 years –
Inject a billion burgers worth of beef –
Grain eaters – methane dispensers.

Through thinning ozone,
Waves fall on wrinkled earth –
Gravity, light, ancient refuse of stars,
Speak of a drowning –
But this, this is something other.
Busy monster eats dark holes in the spirit world
Where wild things have to go
To disappear
Forever

If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?
Anybody hear the forest fall?

Reading the comments gives a little insight into the public consciousness and so far it’s pretty bleak. – Think we have ANOTHER 20 years? I don’t think so…

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