Letra de Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One
It is worse, much worse than you think (than you think) The slowness of global warming is a fairy tale (it's a fairy tale) Perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all (ain't happening at all) And it comes to us bundled with several others (several others) In an anthology of comforting delusionsThat all this warming is an Arctic saga unfolding remotely That it is strictly a matter of sea level and coastline Not an enveloping crisis sparing no place and leaving no life, undeformed That it is a crisis of the "natural" world Not the human oneNone of this is true None of this is true None of this is trueThat those two are distinct (natural and human) That we live today somehow outside or beyond Or at least defended against nature Not inescapably within and literally overwhelmed by it Not inescapably within and literally overwhelmed by itNone of this is true (none of this is true) None of this is true (none of this is true) None of this is true (none of this is true)That wealth can be a shield against the ravages That the burning of fossil fuel is the price of continued economic growth That growth and the technology it produces Will inevitably engineer a way out of disaster A way out of disasterThat there is any analogue To the scale and the scope Of this threat in the long span of human history That might give us confidence in staring it downNone of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true) None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true) None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true) None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true) None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true) None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true)None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true) None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true) None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true) None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true) None of this is true (none of this is true, none of this is true) None of this is true (none of this is true)