{"id":34799,"date":"2024-05-31T11:53:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T11:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=34799"},"modified":"2024-05-31T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T11:53:12","slug":"no-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/05\/31\/no-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"No Regret"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/No-Regret.mp3\"> No-Regret.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/No-Regret.mp4\"> No-Regret.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nWith no regret<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t keep your secret<br \/>\nYour feet you drag<br \/>\nBut the cat is out of the bag<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nThe whole world knows what goes<br \/>\nWhere money spent went<br \/>\nWhat went wrong, same old song<br \/>\n[Bridge]<br \/>\nEveryone, everywhere aware<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Drum Fills]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nWith much regret<br \/>\nLook at our debt<br \/>\nThat rising tide<br \/>\nWe just cannot hide<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nThe whole world knows what goes<br \/>\nWhere money spent went<br \/>\nWhat went wrong, same old song<br \/>\n[Bridge]<br \/>\nEveryone, everywhere aware<\/p>\n<p>A SCIENCE NOTE<br \/>\nGlobal warming has inflicted irreversible damage on our environment, a consensus echoed by nearly all scientists. Indeed, climate change poses a profound challenge. Our planet is witnessing conditions that increasingly jeopardize human habitation. The critical question now is whether we can adapt swiftly enough.<\/p>\n<h2>Earth&#8217;s Current Climate Status<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve entered <strong>the Age of Loss and Damage<\/strong>, but we&#8217;re just at the start. What we are seeing already just makes you want to cry,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/notes\/BBC-Dr-Christopher-Trisos-11-16-2023.mp3\">expressed Dr. Christopher Trisos from the University of Cape Town in a recent BBC interview (MP3 Format)<\/a>. He highlighted the inevitability of loss and damage but emphasized that there are significant measures we can take to mitigate it.<\/p>\n<p>In the 20th century, the Earth&#8217;s surface temperature averaged 13.9\u2103. However, in the first weeks of July 2023, the global average temperature surged to 17\u2103, marking a concerning shift. The question arises: Can humans endure temperatures greater than 3\u2103? The answer is a grim &#8220;probably not long,&#8221; as such extremes have never been experienced by humanity before.<\/p>\n<p>September 6, 2023, marked a dire warning from United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, following the World Meteorological Organization&#8217;s report on the hottest Northern Hemisphere summer in human history. Guterres stated, &#8220;The dog days of summer are not just barking, they are biting,&#8221; emphasizing the severity of the situation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Climate breakdown<\/strong>, the most alarming development, occurs when <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/notes\/feedback-loops.html\">feedback loops<\/a> are triggered, and <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Tipping-Points.html\">tipping points<\/a> are crossed. This leads to the extinction of plants, the disappearance of carbon sinks, and an exponential acceleration of Earth&#8217;s temperature. The consequences are dire, with the potential disappearance of vital resources like food, fresh water, and breathable air, likely followed by catastrophic impacts on human survival.<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;Tempered Response&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/The_Beatless_Sense_Mongers\/\">The Beatless Sense Mongers<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/\">A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No-Regret.mp3 No-Regret.mp4 [Verse 1] With no regret Can&#8217;t keep your secret Your feet you drag But the cat is out of the bag [Chorus] The whole world knows what goes Where money spent went What went wrong, same old song [Bridge] Everyone, everywhere aware [Instrumental, Guitar Solo, Drum Fills] [Verse 2] With much regret Look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,14,3955,24],"tags":[163,546,563,3977],"class_list":["post-34799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","category-the-beatless-sense-mongers","tag-climate-change","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-tempered-response"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34799"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34823,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34799\/revisions\/34823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}