[Silence]
[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]
[Intro]
[Instrumental Intro: Pulsing Bass, Organ Swell, Muted Guitar Chops, Rising Synth Filter]
[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
How near is our situation
(To near extinction)
[Instrumental]
[Bass Solo]
[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]
[Verse 1]
Oh, please
(Stop disease)
It’s nothing to sneeze at
(Trajectory’s far from flat)
[Chorus]
How near is our situation
(To near extinction)
Getting closer day-by-day
(Time to change our way)
[Bridge – Breakdown]
[Percussion, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
Sooo… (let’s go!)
[Instrumental, Saxophone Solo]
[Guitar Solo]
[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]
[Verse 2]
When it comes to war
(Say “no more!”)
Time for the fool
(To go to school)
[Chorus]
How near is our situation
(To near extinction)
Getting closer day-by-day
(Time to change our way)
[Outro]
[Percussion, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
Sooo… (let’s go!)
[Guitar Solo]
Yo! (We know)
Shape up the shhh (it) show
ABOUT THE SONG
Continued denial and politicization of climate change — coupled with intensified competition over water, food, and migration — could trigger large-scale conflict, including the potential for nuclear war. Such a collapse of human systems could lead to near-term extinction, even though the climate physics alone do not make that outcome likely.
Much of the world could become uninhabitable. Billions of people might be reduced to millions, with severely diminished quality of life and drastically shortened life expectancy.
Research highlights another layer of risk: climate change aggravates infectious disease. Camilo Mora, data analyst and associate professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, found that climatic hazards exacerbate 58% of all known human pathogens — over half of the infectious diseases discovered since the end of the Roman Empire. Mora called this “shocking,” emphasizing that movement of humans and animals, as well as milder winters at higher latitudes allowing pathogen survival, are key factors.
Mora notes:
“The human pathogenic diseases and transmission pathways aggravated by climatic hazards are too numerous for comprehensive societal adaptation, highlighting the urgent need to work at the source of the problem: reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”
He further explained:
“The magnitude of the vulnerability — when you think about one or two diseases, okay, we can deal with that. But when 58% of diseases can be affected or triggered in a thousand different ways, it’s clear we are not going to be able to adapt to climate change.”
In short, while the physical limits of the Earth system constrain the ultimate magnitude of warming, human behavior, social instability, and geopolitical failures could still produce catastrophic outcomes far beyond what climate physics alone would dictate.
- Bounded but Accelerating: Nonlinear Climate Dynamics and the Real Risk Landscape of the 21st Century — Brouse & Mukherjee (February 2026)
From the album “Rewilding“