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.