Earth Doctor / Climate Troubadour

Only Love Will Save This Place

Only Love Will Save This Place (2017)

A second album of climate stories about life in the 21st century: 

Continuing “business as usual” is like shoveling coal on a runaway train. The bridge is out; Even the fossil-fuel companies are on a suicidal trajectory; Coal and oil interests exert powerful control over our elected officials; West Virginia, long controlled by the coal industry, is now ground zero for the fracked gas industry as well; The poles are melting, and a lot of people live in coastal cities; We live in a time of great economic extremes, billionaires and homeless; We must stop trying to liquidate Mother Earth for a few bucks if we want long-term survival; A few numbers that we should all know like 2°Celsius, or 420 parts per million CO2; The courage of the Lakota nation at Standing Rock, 2016; Finally, it will take millions of dedicated people to turn this greedy and self-destructive trajectory around. But there are a lot of us on the move…

 

Shoveling Coal on a Runaway Train
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In a hot world, stop burning things!
That Is Not The Case
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Combustion is their only business plan. Wake up! Divest!
Ka-Ching, Ka-Ching!
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America deserves better than government by money.
Song for West Virginia
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Hostage to the coal industry for over a hundred years.
Fracking is Everywhere
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Something is going on, Pennsylvania, down on the farm.
Chasing Ice Blues
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How can I simplify? Miami's gonna say goodbye.
All I Want is H2O
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How fracking endangers your drinking water.
All I Want is H2O “Live”
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Video by Mike Wicklein. On stage with Josh Fox.
It’s Love or It’s Money
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Destroying our only home for profit is nuts!
What’s in a Number?
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Here are a few important numbers about climate change.
Black Serpent
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Brave Lakota face the Dakota Pipeline juggernaut.
Only Love Will Save this Place
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To the free market, all the world is a "sacrifice zone".
Shoveling Coal on a Runaway Train
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Stop the train. The bridge is out.