[Intro]
[Traffic]
[Applause]
[Laughter]
[Crying]
[Guitar Solo]
[Instrumental]
[Break]
[Verse 1]
In the pages of Nature, a warning is fired,
Of the threats to humanity, rising higher.
Our diseases pleases? aggravated I’d say,
By the changing primate, day by day.
[Break]
By day
By each and every day
[Verse 2]
Her voice rings clear, Her voice sings true,
In the hell of “our” earth, She shines the view.
Movement of people, and animals too,
Driven by the prime primate, what can we do?
[Break]
By day
[Break]
By day by day
[Break]
By each and every day
[Chorus]
Oh, prime primate, what have you done?
Spreading diseases, blocking the sun.
From the depths of despair, we must rise,
For the sake of our planet, we must open our eyes.
[Break]
Surprise
[Break]
Realize
[Bridge]
Forever warming, getting higher, dire,
On vectors surviving, causing interludes.
The impact is vast, the challenge great,
But we must act now, before it’s too late.
[Break]
Too, too late
[Chorus]
Oh, prime primate, what have you done?
Spreading diseases, blocking the sun.
From the depths of despair, we must rise,
For the sake of our planet, we must open our eyes.
[Break]
Surprise
[Break]
Realize
[Outro]
My dear,
The time is now,
The End is near, stop, somehow
In our face our daunting plight,
Together we stand, in the fight for what’s right.
Or, else…
[End]
[Silence]
ABOUT THE SCIENCE
In a report published in Nature entitled Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change, data analyst and associate professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawaii Manoa, Camilo Mora, said climate hazards aggravated 58% of all known human pathogens. That is over half of infectious diseases discovered since the end of the Roman Empire. 58% of an authoritative list of infectious diseases documented to have impacted humanity have already been shown to be aggravated by climatic hazards — a finding the researchers found “shocking,” Mora said.
Movement of people and animals caused by climate is one factor. Warming at higher latitudes allowed vectors and pathogens to survive winter is another factor. The report goes on to say, “The human pathogenic diseases and transmission pathways aggravated by climatic hazards are too numerous for comprehensive societal adaptations, highlighting the urgent need to work at the source of the problem: reducing GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emissions.”
This research reveals more evidence that humans will have difficulty adapting to climate change, especially those in developing countries, Mora said. “The magnitude of the vulnerability when you think about one or two diseases — okay, sure, we can deal with that,” he said. “But when you’re talking about 58% of the diseases, and 58% of those diseases can be affected or triggered in 1,000 different ways. So that, to me, was also revealing of the fact that we’re not going to be able to adapt to climate change.”