{"id":31964,"date":"2024-01-16T13:58:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=31964"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:58:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:58:49","slug":"winning-at-losing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/01\/16\/winning-at-losing\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning at Losing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LYRICS<br \/>\nWhen you ask me<br \/>\nHow things are<br \/>\nDo you find it<br \/>\nA bit bizarre?<br \/>\nGone too far<br \/>\nChoosing winning at losing<br \/>\nAt this pace<br \/>\nHuman race<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t leave a trace<br \/>\nSelf-erase<\/p>\n<p>When you ask me<br \/>\nHow things are<br \/>\nGone so low<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t lower the bar<br \/>\nWhen you ask me<br \/>\nHow things are<br \/>\nDo you find it<br \/>\nA bit bizarre?<br \/>\nGone too far<br \/>\nChoosing winning at losing<br \/>\nAt this pace<br \/>\nHuman race<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t leave a trace<br \/>\nSelf-erase<\/p>\n<p>Since you asked me<br \/>\nHow things are<br \/>\nLook at &#8220;Be&#8221; and see<br \/>\nBizarre<br \/>\nGone too far<br \/>\nChoosing winning at losing<br \/>\nAt this pace<br \/>\nHuman race<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t leave a trace<br \/>\nSelf-erase<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielle.membrane.com\/Daniel-Brouse\/Rawhide-ous\/240114_0506-Winning-at-Losing.mp3\">Winning-at-Losing.mp3<\/a> (unplugged to conserve energy)<\/p>\n<p>Chords: A D A A E A \/ C D A \/ C E A \/ E C A \/ D G A \/ C E A<br \/>\nInstrumentation: Vocals, Takamine Acoustic Guitar<br \/>\nWritten and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nWhy are humans choosing to lose? Why are we winning at losing?<\/p>\n<p>What will the &#8220;End of Times&#8221; look like?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The era of global warming has ended and the era of &#8216;global boiling&#8217; has arrived. Climate change is here. <b>It is terrifying<\/b>. And it is just the beginning&#8221;, UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, said after scientists confirmed July 2023 was on track to be the world&#8217;s hottest month on record.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, we wrote about having crossed <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Tipping-Points.html\">tipping points<\/a> in the paper, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/How-Long-Is-Ever.html\">Climate Change: How Long Is &#8216;Ever&#8217;?<\/a>&#8220;. When we wrote the Tunnel Under Thesis in 1995, we forecast crossing these tipping points would not happen for centuries. We underestimated Man&#8217;s ignorance and arrogance. Fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions have continued to set record highs. Humans have caused chain-reactions resulting in toppled tipping points, <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/notes\/feedback-loops.html\">feedback loops<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Domino-Effect-Tipping-Points-Toppled.html\">The Domino Effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Events we thought would not happen in our lifetimes are happening now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; from <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/Climate-Change-End-of-Times.html\">Climate Change: The End of Times<\/a> Brouse and Mukherjee (2023)<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Can I Do?<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are plenty of things you can do to help save the planet. Stop using fossil fuels. Consume less. <strong>Love more.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/go-net-zero.html\">Here is a list of additional actions you can take.<\/a><\/p>\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>LYRICS When you ask me How things are Do you find it A bit bizarre? Gone too far Choosing winning at losing At this pace Human race Won&#8217;t leave a trace Self-erase When you ask me How things are Gone so low Can&#8217;t lower the bar When you ask me How things are Do you [&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":[6,9,14,3878,25],"tags":[163,3938],"class_list":["post-31964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chords","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-rawhide","category-the-end","tag-climate-change","tag-rawhide-ous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31968,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31964\/revisions\/31968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}