Thursday, July 25, 2019

№ 646.1: EXTRA! Just Deserts

Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months


"The climate math is brutally clear: While the world can't be healed within the next few years, it may be fatally wounded by negligence until 2020," said Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, founder and now director emeritus of the Potsdam Climate Institute.

TERMINUS (July 25)

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(with apologies to Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green)

The Earth is over.
That’s what the scientists say.
No matter what we contend
we took a world and pissed it away.
It’s time to wind up our sad charade
and down some NyQuil,
take to the the bed we’ve made.

The Earth is over.
We've finally run out of luck.
With all our hustle and pluck
we’re not so much sapiens,
we’re more Homo schmuck.
It’s time to realize
we'll never mend.
Accept the break-up.
The Earth is over.
It’s all over.
THE END.