Good-Trouble-Best-Of.mp3
Good-Trouble-Best-Of.mp4
Good-Trouble.mp3
Good-Trouble.mp4
Good-Trouble-intro.mp3
[Intro]
One plus one
Equals two
(Not much about that… you can do)
[Verse 1]
Sea level rise
(What a surprise)
See ya later…
(To the equator)
[Chorus]
It’s some of that
(That’ll make you blue)
It’s the math
(That kills you)
One plus one
Equals two
(Not much about that… you can do)
[Bridge]
Specifically
(Non-linear acceleration)
Tragically
(Feedback loop devolution)
[Verse 2]
It’s the doubling
That’s troubling
Social-ecological feedback
Attack
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[Outro]
One plus one
Equals two
(Not much about that… you can do)
A blues-rock psychedelic, psychobilly song with a driving beat featuring guitar solos, overdriven tone with vibrato and bends, and an organ providing sustained chords and melodic counterpoint. The guitar features prominent slide techniques and expressive phrasing. The organ plays a walking bass line in some sections, adding to the blues feel. Vocals are male and female duet, four-part harmonies live with audience participation.
ABOUT THE SONG
This song captures the inescapable, mathematical certainty of the climate and economic crises we are facing, emphasizing that while individual choices matter, the systemic math is what “kills you.”
[Intro & Chorus: One plus one equals two]
“One plus one equals two (Not much about that… you can do)”
This line highlights the inexorable math of physical and economic laws. Just as 1+1 will always equal 2, the laws of physics (thermodynamics, Clausius-Clapeyron) and basic economic math (deficits + interest = debt spiral) cannot be wished away by ideology.
As detailed in The Economic Monsters: Inflation and Interest Rates, the compounding debt, tariffs, and interest rates are feeding a system that will collapse under its own weight, just as greenhouse gas emissions will inevitably warm the planet beyond safe thresholds.
[Verse 1: Sea level rise]
“Sea level rise (What a surprise)”
“See ya later… (To the equator)”
These lines reference rising seas and forced migration, which are already displacing communities in low-lying equatorial and subtropical regions.
This connects directly to your Trump’s Climate Destruction, which outlines how dismantling climate policies accelerates sea-level rise, intensifies storms, and forces populations away from equatorial regions and coasts, fueling humanitarian crises.
[Bridge: Non-linear acceleration & feedback loops]
“Specifically (Non-linear acceleration)”
“Tragically (Feedback loop devolution)”
These lines capture the tipping points and feedback loops detailed in your climate and economic models, where warming:
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Increases atmospheric water vapor (Clausius-Clapeyron),
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Increases deadly wet-bulb temperatures (explained here),
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Melts ice, reducing albedo, causing further warming,
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Thaws permafrost, releasing methane, accelerating warming further.
Simultaneously, economic feedback loops such as rising debt, interest payments, and reduced productive capacity from anti-immigration policies create a compound collapse, as discussed in The Broken Math of Today’s Economy.
[Verse 2: Doubling and feedback]
“It’s the doubling that’s troubling”
“Social-ecological feedback attack”
This highlights exponential growth and compounding collapse, where:
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Greenhouse gases double every few decades, causing disproportionate warming and system breakdown.
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Economic policies that ignore feedback loops (like tariffs, deficits, and anti-immigration) lead to runaway debt, rising interest, and labor shortages that choke capitalism.
The “social-ecological feedback attack” reflects how social collapse and ecological collapse amplify each other, triggering mass migrations, political instability, and collapse of governance structures needed to manage climate adaptation.
[Outro: The inescapable math]
“One plus one equals two (Not much about that… you can do)”
The outro reinforces that physics and economic arithmetic are indifferent to ideology. We are in a system driven by compound, cascading collapse unless bold, collective action changes the trajectory.
Summary:
This song is a poetic expression of the reality that climate physics and economic math will dictate outcomes if systemic change is not made. It warns that:
✅ Climate change is accelerating due to non-linear feedback loops.
✅ Deadly humid heat and sea-level rise are displacing populations now.
✅ Economic policies ignoring basic math are driving collapse.
✅ Doubling (exponential growth) is accelerating these crises.
✅ Individual actions help, but systemic change is essential to slow the collapse.
Related Papers:
📄 The Economic Monsters: Inflation and Interest Rates
📄 Trump’s Climate Destruction
📄 The Broken Math of Today’s Economy: A Simplified Look