LYRICS
You’re looking at me
Looking at you
It’s plain to see
What we’re to do
Hellbent
On the movement
Of the movement
You hearing me
Hearing you
Clear to the ear
We both can hear
From ear to ear
What to do here
Hellbent
On the movement
Of the movement
Your taste for me
The taste in you
Point-of-view
Come to savor
A knew flavor
Favor to do
Hellbent
On the movement
Of the movement
Lack of movement
Under statement
Could use improvement
Wonder abatement
Find what groove meant
Onward movement
- 231202_0264-Hellbent-on-the-Movement-Part-I.mp3
- 231202_0267-Hellbent-on-the-Movement-Part-II.mp3
- 231202_0268-Hellbent-on-the-Movement-Part-II-Instrumental.mp3
- Hellbent-on-the-Movement-Part-II.MID (Casio WK-3500 with DSP)
Chords: E D A E / G A E / D C / E; Part II 135 Beats Per Minute
Instrumentation: Vocals, Ibanez Acoustic Guitar, Fender Squire Mini Electric Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-3500, Yamaha PSR-740, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
September 6, 2023: “Climate breakdown has begun,” the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the world after the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported the world endure its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer in human history. “The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting,” the UN chief said in a statement after the report’s release.
“What we are observing, are not only new extremes but the persistence of these record-breaking conditions, and the impacts these have on both people and planet, are a clear consequence of the warming of the climate system,” C3S’s Climate Change Service Director Carlo Buontempo said.
Climate Breakdown is the most concerning development. Climate breakdown happens when feedback loops are created and tipping points are crossed. Plants will become extinct and many carbon sinks will vanish. The Earth’s temperature will continue to accelerate at an exponential rate no matter what humans do. Food, fresh water, and breathable air will cease to exist. Humans will likely follow in short order.
In October of 2023, the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Climate Change Service calculated that the average temperature for September was 16.38 degrees Celsius (61.48 degrees Fahrenheit) breaking the previous record set in September 2020 by a half-degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit). This is the largest increase in a monthly record high ever.
“It’s just mind-blowing really,” said Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo. “Never seen anything like that in any month in our records.”
“This is not a fancy weather statistic. It’s a death sentence for people and ecosystems. It destroys assets, infrastructure, harvest,” Imperial College of London climate scientist Friederike Otto said.
— from Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”? / Brouse (2023)
Global heat is now “gobsmackingly bananas,” said climate scientist Zeke Hausfather. “It’s hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are at the moment.”
On November 20, 2023, the UN’s Emission Gap Report found even if countries carried out their current emissions-reduction pledges, the world would likely continuously exceed +3C degrees of warming this century. Later that day, the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative released State of the Cryosphere Report 2023 saying, “Two degrees is too high. Our message — the message of the Cryosphere — is that this insanity cannot and must not continue. The melting point of ice pays no attention to rhetoric, only to our actions.”
— from The Age of Loss and Damage / Brouse (2023)