[Silence]<\/p>\n
[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n
[Intro]
\n[Instrumental Intro: Pulsing Bass, Organ Swell, Muted Guitar Chops, Rising Synth Filter]
\n[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
\nHow near is our situation
\n(To near extinction)
\n[Instrumental]
\n[Bass Solo]
\n[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]<\/p>\n
[Verse 1]
\nOh, please
\n(Stop disease)
\nIt’s nothing to sneeze at
\n(Trajectory’s far from flat)<\/p>\n
[Chorus]
\nHow near is our situation
\n(To near extinction)
\nGetting closer day-by-day
\n(Time to change our way)<\/p>\n
[Bridge \u2013 Breakdown]
\n[Percussion, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
\nSooo… (let’s go!)<\/p>\n
[Instrumental, Saxophone Solo]
\n[Guitar Solo]
\n[Organ Stabs, Driving Bass, Snare March]<\/p>\n
[Verse 2]
\nWhen it comes to war
\n(Say “no more!”)
\nTime for the fool
\n(To go to school)<\/p>\n
[Chorus]
\nHow near is our situation
\n(To near extinction)
\nGetting closer day-by-day
\n(Time to change our way)<\/p>\n
[Outro]
\n[Percussion, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
\nSooo… (let’s go!)
\n[Guitar Solo]
\nYo! (We know)
\nShape up the shhh (it) show<\/p>\n
ABOUT THE SONG
\nContinued denial and politicization of climate change \u2014 coupled with intensified competition over water, food, and migration \u2014 could trigger large-scale conflict, including the potential for nuclear war. Such a collapse of human systems could lead to near-term extinction, even though the climate physics alone do not make that outcome likely.<\/p>\n
Much of the world could become uninhabitable. Billions of people might be reduced to millions, with severely diminished quality of life and drastically shortened life expectancy.<\/p>\n
Research highlights another layer of risk:\u00a0climate change aggravates infectious disease.<\/strong>\u00a0Camilo Mora, data analyst and associate professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, found that climatic hazards exacerbate\u00a058% of all known human pathogens<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 over half of the infectious diseases discovered since the end of the Roman Empire. Mora called this \u201cshocking,\u201d emphasizing that movement of humans and animals, as well as milder winters at higher latitudes allowing pathogen survival, are key factors.<\/p>\n Mora notes:<\/p>\n \u201cThe human pathogenic diseases and transmission pathways aggravated by climatic hazards are too numerous for comprehensive societal adaptation, highlighting the urgent need to work at the source of the problem: reducing greenhouse gas emissions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He further explained:<\/p>\n \u201cThe magnitude of the vulnerability \u2014 when you think about one or two diseases, okay, we can deal with that. But when 58% of diseases can be affected or triggered in a thousand different ways, it\u2019s clear we are not going to be able to adapt to climate change.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In short, while\u00a0the physical limits of the Earth system constrain the ultimate magnitude of warming<\/strong>, human behavior, social instability, and geopolitical failures could still produce catastrophic outcomes far beyond what climate physics alone would dictate.<\/p>\n