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La voce di Greta Thunberg nel nuovo singolo dei The 1975

Gran parte del testo deriva dalle parole pronunciate da Greta nel suo discorso del gennaio 2018 al World Economic Forum

25 Luglio 2019

E’ la voce di Greta Thunberg ad aprire il nuovo singolo dei The 1975.
La band indi-rock britannica ha pubblicato il primo estratto dal loro quarto album “Notes on a Conditional Form”, che come da tradizione si intitola “The 1975”. Tuttavia, il gruppo ha scelto di cedere interamente voce e testi alla giovane attivista svedese.

Gran parte del testo deriva dalle parole pronunciate da Greta nel suo discorso del gennaio 2018 al World Economic Forum.
Al centro la causa ambientale e un monito per tutta l’umanità.

“THE 1975” – Il testo

“We are right now in the beginning of a climate and ecological crisis.

And we need to call it what it is. An emergency.

We must acknowledge that we do not have the situation under control and that we don’t have all the solutions yet. Unless those solutions mean that we simply  stop doing certain things.

We admit that we are losing this battle.

We have to acknowledge that the older generations have failed. All political movements in their present form have failed.

But homo sapiens have not yet failed.

Yes, we are failing, but there is still time to turn everything around. We can still fix this. We still have everything in our own hands.

But unless we recognise the overall failures of our current systems, we most probably don’t stand a chance.

We are facing a disaster of unspoken sufferings for enormous amounts of people. And now is not the time for speaking politely or focusing on what we can or cannot say. Now is the time to speak clearly.

Solving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that homo sapiens have ever faced. The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop our emissions of greenhouse gases.

And either we do that, or we don’t.

You say that nothing in life is black or white.

But that is a lie. A very dangerous lie.

Either we prevent a 1.5 degree of warming, or we don’t.

Either we avoid setting off that irreversible chain reaction beyond human control, or we don’t.

Either we choose to go on as a civilisation or we don’t.

That is as black or white as it gets.

Because there are no grey areas when it comes to survival.

Now we all have a choice.

We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations.

Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

That is up to you and me.

And yes, we need a system change rather than individual change. But you cannot have one without the other.

If you look through history, all the big changes in society have been started by people at the grassroots level. People like you and me.

So, I ask you to please wake up and make the changes required possible. To do your best is no longer good enough. We must all do the seemingly impossible.”

2019-07-25T12:21:53+02:00