NO COMMENTS?!?! It's the most amazing, emotional and controversial song Tracy Chapman has ever created and not ONE bloody comment! You people suck ;p lol.
This is my favourite Tracy Chapman song. It's more of a worldly song than Micheal Jackson's "Earth Song". It's about how the world turns a blind eye and continues to destroy "mother earth". No one watches the shocking documentaries and the millions of africans dyieng of aids EVERY day, the the graphic images of war and poverty, the rain forests being chopped down and all the animals, all the splendour and beauty of the world torn down for commercial use. And no one even notices. She's saying here how although you or me may not be the ones killing, destroying and degrading our beautiful home, but the worst crime of all is to stand aside and watch as the world falls apart. To do nothing about it. The worst crime is the way that people could infact stop "the rape of the world" (I love that metaphor), if everyone cared, if everyone tried. This song is so sad, how can the world turn their heads to THIS, to all the sadness, the pain, the poverty, how can the world ignore it.
I was reminded again of this song after reading that Las Vegas is going to pilfer scarce central Nevada water aquifers to feed its mindless growth, causing inevitable extinctions of species that depend on groundwater in remote valleys. Just one of many examples. The massive proliferation of gas fracking wells and "green" wind turbines is also scarring the land more and more.
I was reminded again of this song after reading that Las Vegas is going to pilfer scarce central Nevada water aquifers to feed its mindless growth, causing inevitable extinctions of species that depend on groundwater in remote valleys. Just one of many examples. The massive proliferation of gas fracking wells and "green" wind turbines is also scarring the land more and more.
The rape of the world continues unabated, mostly due to human population growth and the "economic growth" that coddles and excuses it. There is no real balance between Man and nature, just more people and less...
The rape of the world continues unabated, mostly due to human population growth and the "economic growth" that coddles and excuses it. There is no real balance between Man and nature, just more people and less nature, almost every day. It gets called "balance" to assuage the semi-apathetic. Leave a few trees standing after you bulldoze another hillside for homes, and pretend nature somehow won a victory.
NO COMMENTS?!?! It's the most amazing, emotional and controversial song Tracy Chapman has ever created and not ONE bloody comment! You people suck ;p lol.
This is my favourite Tracy Chapman song. It's more of a worldly song than Micheal Jackson's "Earth Song". It's about how the world turns a blind eye and continues to destroy "mother earth". No one watches the shocking documentaries and the millions of africans dyieng of aids EVERY day, the the graphic images of war and poverty, the rain forests being chopped down and all the animals, all the splendour and beauty of the world torn down for commercial use. And no one even notices. She's saying here how although you or me may not be the ones killing, destroying and degrading our beautiful home, but the worst crime of all is to stand aside and watch as the world falls apart. To do nothing about it. The worst crime is the way that people could infact stop "the rape of the world" (I love that metaphor), if everyone cared, if everyone tried. This song is so sad, how can the world turn their heads to THIS, to all the sadness, the pain, the poverty, how can the world ignore it.
I was reminded again of this song after reading that Las Vegas is going to pilfer scarce central Nevada water aquifers to feed its mindless growth, causing inevitable extinctions of species that depend on groundwater in remote valleys. Just one of many examples. The massive proliferation of gas fracking wells and "green" wind turbines is also scarring the land more and more.
I was reminded again of this song after reading that Las Vegas is going to pilfer scarce central Nevada water aquifers to feed its mindless growth, causing inevitable extinctions of species that depend on groundwater in remote valleys. Just one of many examples. The massive proliferation of gas fracking wells and "green" wind turbines is also scarring the land more and more.
The rape of the world continues unabated, mostly due to human population growth and the "economic growth" that coddles and excuses it. There is no real balance between Man and nature, just more people and less...
The rape of the world continues unabated, mostly due to human population growth and the "economic growth" that coddles and excuses it. There is no real balance between Man and nature, just more people and less nature, almost every day. It gets called "balance" to assuage the semi-apathetic. Leave a few trees standing after you bulldoze another hillside for homes, and pretend nature somehow won a victory.