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[Intro]
Mass hallucination
Leads to rapid intensification
Doing what’s “best for me”
Bringing on a tragedy
[Verse 1]
The complexity
Of thermal energy
Gaining clarity
On non-linearity
[Bridge]
[Instrumental, Guitar Solo]
Mass hallucination
Leads to rapid intensification
Doing what’s “best for me”
Bringing on a tragedy
[Chorus]
Twice as strong
Last twice as long
Come twice as soon
With twice the boom!
[Verse 2]
The tenacity of intensity
(ohh, woah, the frequency)
Gaining clarity
On non-linearity
[Bridge]
Mass hallucination
Leads to rapid intensification
Doing what’s “best for me”
Bringing on a tragedy
[Chorus]
Twice as strong
Last twice as long
Come twice as soon
With twice the boom!
[Bridge]
Mass hallucination
Leads to rapid intensification
Doing what’s “best for me”
Bringing on a tragedy
[Chorus]
Twice as strong
Last twice as long
Come twice as soon
With twice the boom!
[Outro]
Rapid intensification
Sure did (bring on the ramification)
A SCIENCE NOTE
The rapid intensification of hurricanes, as seen with Hurricane Helene (2024) and Hurricane Milton (2024), is directly tied to climate change. Warmer waters, higher atmospheric moisture, and rising sea levels are creating more powerful storms that cause greater damage. These trends indicate that as global temperatures rise, hurricanes will continue to become stronger, more frequent, and harder to predict.
“No place is safe from violent rain.” Unfortunately, the doubling time for the severity of these storms has dropped from 100 years to just 2 years. In other words, you can expect twice as much damage as we saw two years ago—and four times as much damage in another two years. Twenty years ago, we were confident that humans would change their behavior before it reached this point. Not only have we failed to do so, but we’ve also increased our reliance on fossil fuels. At the current rate of pollution, much of the Earth could become uninhabitable within this century — potentially within the lifetimes of our grandchildren. This outcome is entirely preventable, but our drive for mass consumption continues to dominate our actions.