[Silence]
[Instrumental Intro: dark psychedelic guitar riff, pulsing bass, distorted organ, fast driving drums]
[Intro]
The sky is changing
(The window’s clear)
The heat is rising
(Year after year)
You can call it weather
(You can call it fate)
But the evidence
(Is at the gate)
[Verse 1]
Once they said
(It isn’t real)
Nothing happening
(Nothing to feel)
Then the record
(Started showing)
And the temperatures
(Kept on going)
So the story
(Changed its name)
“Too expensive”
(Who’s to blame?)
From denial
(To delay)
Push the problem
(One more day)
[Refrain]
Outright denial
(Is no longer sustained)
Rial in mistrial
(Lying can’t be maintained)
Just look out your window
(Look out your backdoor)
Everybody’s come to know
(We can’t take it any more)
[Verse 2]
Close the border
(Guard the gate)
Protect the resources
(While we wait)
[Refrain]
Outright denial
(Is no longer sustained)
Rial in mistrial
(Lying can’t be maintained)
Just look out your window
(Look out your backdoor)
Everybody’s come to know
(We can’t take it any more)
[Verse 3]
“Not today
(Maybe next year)
Not our problem
(Nothing to fear)”
[Bridge]
Climate, power
(And identity)
The problem – our
(Is reality)
[Break]
Look out!
(The window!)
Look about!
(The backdoor!)
[Instrumental: escalating psychedelic jam, wah-wah guitar, organ, pounding bass]
[Final Refrain]
Outright denial
(Is no longer sustained)
Rial in mistrial
(Lying can’t be maintained)
Just look out your window
(Look out your backdoor)
Everybody’s come to know
(We can’t take it any more)
Who gets to survive?
(Who gets the choice?)
Who remains alive?
(Who gets the voice?)
[Outro]
Look out your window…
(If you need to know)
You want more, more, more…
(Look out your backdoor…)
About the Song
🌎 FROM CLIMATE DENIAL TO CLIMATE AUTHORITARIANISM
Who gets to survive climate change?
Climate politics is evolving.
As outright denial becomes harder to sustain, the narrative can shift from:
“Climate change isn’t happening.”
→ “Fixing it will cost too much.”
→ “Blame the outsiders.”
→ “Protect our resources.”
This article examines four related concepts:
🔹 Climate denial & climate delay
🔹 Ecofascism
🔹 Fossil fascism
🔹 Petro-masculinity
These aren’t interchangeable terms. Each describes a different way climate change, energy, identity, economics, and political power can become intertwined.
The central question is increasingly not simply whether the climate is changing—but how society explains the change, assigns responsibility, and responds to it.
Who gets to survive climate change?
Climate misinformation is no longer limited to simply denying that the planet is warming. As climate change becomes increasingly difficult to dismiss, the political narratives surrounding it have evolved—from outright denial, to attacks on climate science, to opposition to climate policy, and, in more extreme forms, to narratives that blame immigrants and other marginalized populations for environmental decline.
These narratives are not identical. They operate through different mechanisms and identify different enemies. But they can overlap, creating a broader political strategy in which climate science, energy policy, immigration, race, gender, and national identity become interconnected.
The International Panel on the Information Environment’s 2025 assessment concluded that powerful actors—including corporations, governments, and political parties—intentionally spread inaccurate or misleading narratives about anthropogenic climate change, contributing to declining public trust and political inaction.
From Climate Denial to Climate Authoritarianism: Fossil Fascism, Ecofascism, and Petro-Masculinity
From the album “Present Tense“
