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Introduction:
Hello and welcome to Eco Doom Scenario.
Mixed, not mastered!
The track has now been mixed and has been uploaded, in sections again, but it's still got to be mastered, but we're close to the end now. Written between 2006 and 2008, rehearsals started in May 2007, the recording started in May 2008. Research into the science of it, a lot earlier.
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Supported by Stargoat of Banbury.
This fictional song is set in the future, at a time when global warming has accelerated into a feedback loop. Using the latest scientific facts and figures, in technical and layman's terms, this song gives an insight into the problems, that we, as a world, are yet to face. Told from a survival bunker, at a time when a mass extinction event is in progress, temperature and air quality prohibit life as we know it. Those with the foresight and means have dug in, for 10, or however many years it takes for the greenhouse gases to dissipate and the temperature to start falling.
There's a good chance the temperature will continue falling, gradually to an ice age, that will bring an arctic ice sheet most of the way down to the equator. The equator being where most of humans will have to migrate to survive. Ironic really, as manking had to abandon the whole of Africa during the big warming. All traces of our heritage and landmarks will be obliterated by an ice pack, hundreds of metres high, slowly grinding its way south. But that's way in the future, a follow up song if you like. But not for a while though, I've got to tackle the solar wind first, along with our unpreparedness on Earth.
This song only deals with the matters leading to the big warming. The inadequacy of leaders throughout the world to avert this event, and their retreat into state of the art luxury survival accomodation, along with the great, the good and the connected, is not appreciated by others clinging to life by whatever means they have. Government is conducted electronically, to anyone tuning in. The sting in the tale is that those who have survived the runaway warming will, in time, have to deal with the acid rain that starts falling after the warming event has peaked.
Eco Doom Scenario
What started out as economic migration
Has turned into a mass evacuation
Many of the affected had no explanation
For accelerating desertification
They emptied out of Africa by any means they could
They made their rafts from oil drums, cloth, rope and wood
They took to the Mediterranean, across the open sea
To France, the Adriatic, Spain and Italy
They were falling as they left their shores, just dying to get out
They weren’t economic refugees, just had to escape the drought
Combustion engines motor on, no end to fumes in sight
Manufacturing shifting base, third world pollution plight
For three days after 9:11 the US emptied her skies
Scientists got to work whilst aeroplanes didn’t fly
From coast to coast the temperature showed a one degree rise
Vapour trails from planes spread out to cloak the Earth in a veil
Heat from sun gets filtered out and daylight starts to fail
Up to a fifth of sunlight being reflected back into space
It’s about the drying Amazon, It’s the disappearing Arctic ice
It’s about the melting permafrost, it’s the clathrate gun hypothesis
We’ve already taken 42% of the Amazon rainforest
With a tipping point, of 50% or less
The lungs of the world have the opposite effect
The drought is in its second year, the trees are under stress
And this is what the climatologists fear, she’ll burn
And the area of the jungle, that has been cleared
They grow soya for the Europeans
In the cloud farming wars of the 21st century
Lonely clouds had no real sanctuary
They shot them down with silver iodide
Clouds had simply nowhere to hide
Henan province, central China
Agriculture had never been harder
Seeding clouds was the only way
To ensure the crops got fed that day
It’s about the drying Amazon, It’s the disappearing Arctic ice
It’s about the melting permafrost, it’s the clathrait gun hypothesis
It’s about the drying Amazon, It’s the disappearing Arctic ice
It’s about the melting permafrost, it’s the clathrait gun hypothesis
In the year 2000
The world was a hanging chad
Away from salvation
There was a stalled outcome
To the U S election
And our climate steward was robbed of the chance
To get the states signed up to Kyoto
The eight years we lost
Was the first of many setbacks
That were encountered
The Bush regime, the oilmen and others
Had muddied the waters
Disputed the science
And helped cost us our world
Pollution’s been causing global dimming
But listen my friend this is just the beginning
The pan evaporation rate consequentially falling
As emissions from planes reflect the sunlight
The rain that’s falling in our warmer world
Is not all falling through pollution cloud
Which is residing above the most
populous places in the world
The build up of pollution cloud, in our atmosphere,
They fear, has locked up maybe two degrees of warming,
For the future, that’s three times the level we’ve recorded so far
And that’s assuming that one day we address the issue of
Atmospheric Pollution
We built ourselves a bunker
About twenty years ago
And we’ve been waiting for the right time
To go down below
We power our home by the sun and the wind
We bored ourselves a well
We’ve got food and lots of plants packed in
And a geothermal
It’s been getting too hot to live in our town
Society breaking down
Find a cave or get yourself
Underground
Greenhouse gases, in our atmosphere
Greenhouse gases, building every year
Greenhouse gases, at a record high
High above the clouds, high up in the sky
The over carbonisation of all of the oceans
Has caused a marine food chain mass implosion
Rising seas caused massive coastal erosion
And a feedback loop has now been set in motion
A feedback loop has now been set in motion
A feedback loop has now been set in motion
The survival system is working
We’re used to the tiny space
Rations diminish too quickly
But we can’t leave this place
We’re in touch with other people
All stashed away
Up hills, in basements and bunkers
In a forum every day
We watch all the government broadcasts
The problems just grow
We hear of the devastation
And further tales of woe
The islands of England
Are now very far
From the land left in Ireland
And the islands of France
There isn’t a Holland
Or Belgium, bar the Ardennes
The islands of Europe
The many thousands of islands
Of Europe
And the glacial melt from the Himalayas
Has all but ceased and the rivers of Asia
Have stopped flowing in the dry season
And seas have risen by sixty metres
The Greenland icecap has now all melted
Antarctica, Siberia Canada, Alaska
Are now warm places
But they’re heating up so quickly
That the vegetation can’t adapt
To the constantly changing climate
The giant dustbowls of China and India
Caused mass migration heading north
The pressure of population led to
Tension, disturbance, mistrust
The Amazon finally withers and dies
Her carbon reserve given up to the skies
She’s still burning now, her wealth all gone
(It’s) the same in the tropics throughout the world
And the methane clathraits are bubbling up
In the deep blue rolling Arctic seas
It’s twenty times worse than CO2
And it melts at four degrees c
The permafrost has now all melted
Some Alpine villages slid off mountains
The tundra released its methane gases
Siberia’s forests fell into themselves
Australia is burning, the US is burning
The whole of Europe is burning
And the mammals are all dying
And the reptiles are all burrowing in
The ants and the cockroaches
Are adapting to the changes…
Along with lots of the world’s leaders
With their entourage in bunkers
Powered by the latest renewable technology
That’s the irony…that’s the irony
Toughing it out for ten years
In luxury
Waiting to reign in their brave new world
But there is no brave new world to emerge to
As the atmosphere is now unbreathable
No oxygen given by phytoplankton
Which accounted for 50% of the total
And the fires which took the trees and forests
Had accounted for most of the rest
Of what we need to breathe
When the ice cap floated off of Greenland down to the sea
And the arctic ice had all melted away
The ‘great ocean current’
Which entwines our Earth
Switched off in the North Atlantic
Switched off around the world
The oxygen and nutrients it took to the floor
Of the oceans had fed all marine life
And without the deep current they died
And then stagnated
As the matter starts to rot on the ocean floor
The putrification gives rise to hydrogen sulphide
Which is deadly to all above and below
And last showed up to kill off the dinosaurs
So get yourself rich, famous or connected
For a new generation can only come from state of the art
Massively equipped bunkers, and even then
There’s only a chance, as a species, we’ll come through
And the earth, she’ll be fine, it’s happened before
But the acid rain that fell throughout the world
Will slow any flora and fauna revival
And she may remain barren for 1000 years or more.
Paul G Cox 2006 – 2008
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