Sunday, 25 August 2019

Music on Sunday; World on Fire

The World is on Fire, litteraly. As we speak the lungs of the Earth are burning and no one is giving a damn about it. There is some outcry of course. There is talk of banning  products from Brazil but no one is doing anything to put pressure on the president of Brazil who ever since he's elected has done nothing about the deforestation of his country. In fact, he encourages the farmers to set large parts of the Amazon Forest on fire for farmland! Now he says the fires happen because it is so dry and it is so hot. It is in fact set on fire by farmers, it happens every year again and again! The smoke is so thick that Sao Paolo is dark during the day and that the smoke is visible from outer space even!
The Amazon Forest provides 20% of the oxygen we breath on the Earth, they are also called the lungs of the Earth. Who in their right mind would well willingly set them on fire? That is killing of all human and animal life! Murdering innocent species who live in the forest, not to mention tribes who still live there and who the Brazilian president wants gone.
I'm sad hearing or watching the news every time.
But also outraged; when Notre Dame was burning people were donating money and now nothing... silence.

For today's music on sunday, songs about the world being on fire...










© KH

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