Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One

[Intro]

It is worse, much worse that you think

The slowness of global warming is a fairy tale

Perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all

And it comes to us bundled with several others in an anthology of comforting delusions:

[Verse 1]

That all this warming is an Arctic saga unfolding remotely

That it is strictly a matter of sea level and coastline

Not an enveloping crisis sparing no place and leaving no life undeformed

That it is a crisis of the "natural" world

Not the human one

[Chorus]

None of this is true

None of this is true

None of this is true

[Verse 2]

That those two are distinct

Natural and human

That we livе today somehow outside or beyond or at lеast defended against nature

Not inescapably within and literally overwhelmed by it

Not inescapably within and literally overwhelmed by it

[Chorus]

None of this is true

None of this is true

None of this is true

[Verse 3]

That wealth can be a shield against the ravages

That the burning of fossil fuel is the price of continued economic growth

That growth and the technology it produces will inevitably engineer a way out of disaster

A way out of disaster

[Verse 4]

That there is any analogue

To the scale and the scope

Of this threat in the long span of human history

That might give us confidence in staring it down

[Chorus]

None of this is true

None of this is true

None of this is true

None of this is true

None of this is true

None of this is true

None of this is true

None of this is true

None of this is true

None of this is true

None of this is true

None of this is true