Remember Paris

This song will not save the world.

Neither will any change of behaviour of any of us just on a personal level.

The only real chance we have left is a fundamental change in politics, enforcing a fundamental change in all people of the Global North’s behaviour.

We must demand from our politicians — whom, after all, we elected to be our employees to act on our behalf! — to finally do what they promised, back in 2015 in Paris:

Keep global warming well under 2.0°C.

And that means stop all use of fossil fuels. Now.
 

“Remember Paris” references a quote by climate scientist Ruth Cerezo-Mota, “They [the powerful] can say they don’t care, but they can’t say they didn’t know.” Read more here: www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

And, of course, Greta Thunberg’s famous “how dare you” speech in NY, 2019. yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=TMrtLsQbaok&local=true

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LYRICS

Remember Paris, nine years ago
You made a promise, finally say no
But turns out you did not
Mean a word you signed

Remember Dubai, 2023
A fox made henhouse guard for all to see
Couldn’t make it any
Clearer, you don’t mind (at all, at all, at all…)

This’s been going on for too long
You now need to step aside
Give us back your loot and plunder
For a future just and bright

Remember New York, five years ago
A teenage woman unveiled your show
You just clapped and smiled
But wouldn’t change your ways

Remember London, 2022
The streets were burning, nightmares came true
But turns out you don’t look
Up, you turn away (look up, look up, look up…)

This is us, the people speaking
We are tired of all your lies
We will seize now all your assets
For a future just and bright

You could say you don’t care
but you can’t say you didn’t know (you knew, you knew, you knew…)

Maybe we can’t dare you
But we can say, How dare you (how dare, how dare, how dare…)

It is hubris and greed
that take away your humanity (human—, human—, human—…)

If you’re honest you’d say
You don’t care, but — how dare you?!

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released May 31, 2024