THE EXTINCTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED *
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing
can be changed until it is faced.”– James Baldwin
State Farm will not be there like a good neighbor
Nationwide will not be on your side You will not know
“What’s in your wallet”
There won’t be 7 ways to help generate income once
your portfolio reaches $1 million
Because the extinction will not be televised
The extinction will not be televised
The extinction will have no “skies the limit” addresses given
to seniors rejoicing for graduating from high school or college
You will not be able to buy a barbecue bacon double
cheeseburger combo at Jack in the Box
You will not take off pounds while pigging out on pizza
The extinction will not be televised
The extinction will be brought to you by Exxon who knew
about the climate crisis in the 1970s but has spent 40 years
and tens of millions dollars lying about the fact that
their products are destroying our shared climate
The extinction will not be televised
The extinction will be brought to you by 20 transnational corporations
and the Pentagon which are responsible for more than 35%
of the total global carbon emissions since 1965
The extinction will lose no sleep over a record carbon dioxide
level of 420 particles per million in our planet’s atmosphere
The extinction will not be televised
The extinction will be brought to you by China, earth's
leading source of carbon dioxide emissions in 2020
with 30% of global total
and Donald Trump who claims climate change is a hoax
and Joe Biden, who said it’s an existential threat
but approved fossil fuel drilling permits on public
and tribal lands at a faster rate than any other
President before him
The extinction will not be televised
The extinction gave George Herbert Walker Bush a standing ovation
at the Rio Earth Summit after telling the delegates“The American
way of life is not up for negotiation!”
There will be no skies the limit commencement addresses
to graduating high school and college seniors
Because the extinction will not be televised
The extinction will not be televised
The resistance to extinction and rebellion for life
will be brought to you—
By Kayaktivists in Seattle protesting Arctic oil drilling in ancestral
habitat of whales, seals polar bears and Inuit people
By Standing Rock water protectors facing water blasts
in freezing weather because—YOU CAN’T DRINK OIL
KEEP IT IN THE SOIL
By Extinction Rebellion activists supergluing themselves to government
buildings and shutting down the London Bridge to protest Britain’s
inaction on catastrophic global warming
By white haired grandmothers locking themselves to bulldozers
to stop the construction of pipelines carrying toxic tar sands oil
By Swede teen Greta Thunberg telling world leaders, "How dare you!
We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk
about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth”
By Climate activists and Indigenous water protectors protesting
the construction of Enbridge Line 3 which violates treaty rights
of the Anishinaabe people along with threatening their sacred
wild rice watersheds in Minnesota
By divestment campaigns calls for banks to end
their financing to fossil fuels
By more than 330 U.S. research scientists sending a letter to
President Biden telling him that listening to science means—
acting on science,
stopping new fossil fuel projects,
opposing industry delay tactics,
and declaring a national climate emergency
By over 1000 land defenders, water protectors, environmentalists who
have been murdered since the climate accord was signed in Paris in 2015
By young climate activists from the Sunrise Movement chanting
to Democratic Senator Joe Manchin as he stepped off his
$5 million houseboat bought by fossil fuel money
WE WANT TO LIVE…
WE WANT TO LIVE…
WE WANT TO LIVE…
Because the extinction will not be televised
The extinction will not be televised
The extinction will not be televised
* Based on “The Revolution will not be Televised” by Gil Scott-Heron who was an American jazz poet, singer, musician and author, known for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s.
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