Point of No Return

A "protest" song about how little has been done about the climate crisis despite scientists and many in the public being aware of it for half a century or more.
LYRICS & CHORDS
(Dm) It's been fifty years or more
Since I (C) heard of our climate's fate
If we (Bb) didn't do something about it
The (A) planet would be in a bad state
Since (Dm) then we've had a lot of talk
Like (C) smoke rising from a joint
But (Bb) very little action to (A) avoid the tipping point
With (G) summers that increasingly (D) burn
Oh (G) all of the lessons we've not (D) learned
(C) No one seems that con(D)cerned
We're at the (C) point of (G) no re(D)turn
Fifty years of dithering
Full of promises not kept
The dollars they spent on denial
Under the carpet have been swept
Money that could have helped us all
Spent to keep the status quo
We're running out of time
But common sense is a no-show
CHORUS
 
Future generations
If any there will be
Will curse the inaction
Of these decades so carefree
We could have turned the tide they'll say
But we couldn't find the will
As they suffer from our selfishness
Under climates that will kill
CHORUS

[@timothysebastiannewey7013]

Well done ,Berni!Unfortunately all too true!!

[@VictorMawhinney]

👍👍 Good one Berni 👍👍
🎸🎶🎸…..Vic👍👍

[@berniarmstrong]

Thanks, Vic.

[@michaelhermiston]

a great add to the canon of tunes/cries for us to wake up!! i've heard literal tunes, angry blasts, poetic hints, pleads and threatening songs.... life on this planet with thrive until the sun burns out, but our behaviours will make our existence hell if we don't smarten up collectively... great song Berni!!!🌎 😡🔥🌍🌎💥☄🥵

[@berniarmstrong]

Thanks Michael. 50 years before arousing from our slumber is a long wake up call!

[@HilaliProds]

Beautiful stuff mate!

[@berniarmstrong]

Cheers, glad you liked it. I still can't believe I was sixteen when I first heard about the climate crisis and I'll be 70 on Sunday, and what have we got to show for the warnings?

[@singtomeofautumnleaves]

great song brother and i'm grateful to hear a quality protest song about the climate crisis this week. the WMO released it's Climate report for 2023 several days ago and to say it makes for alarming reading would be an understatement. i was going to say how topical an issue it is but, as you rightly say, it's been topical now for decades. national economic imperatives are very good ear muffs.

[@berniarmstrong]

"...national economic imperatives are very good ear muffs." Right on the nose, Jon. But "Capitalism is the best system possible!" they keep trying to tell us.😒