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Fracking
02:51
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Fracking
Hydrochloric acid, Ethylene
Glycol, Formic acid, Benzene,
Polycrylamide, Magnesium peroxide
Tetramethyl ammonium chloride.
Down goes the drill bit into the ground
Cutting out the shaft kilometres down
A sideways turn, kilometres on
Fractures the rocks with a ‘perforation gun’
The high-pressure mix is pumped down the hole
Pushed between the rocks is a gel-like ooze
Up comes the Methane off to be burned
25 times more climate changing than C02
(It’s the most potent climate changing gas there is)
Down goes the pipe, better get it right
Cos if it goes wrong it could spill out of sight
Into the aquifer, which won’t be very nice
And your tap water could set on fire. Could set on fire
8 million litres of water
200,000 litres of chemicals
Some are toxic, poisonous, carcinogenic,
Corrosive and highly flammable
Up from the earth comes half of the mixture
But now it’s radioactive with arsenic and lead
Millions of years of geological processes
Produced something so toxic it could kill you dead
Half of the fluid stays in the ground
At least we presume, there’s no long-term research
The high-energy consumption of the process
Will be over before the environment is left in the lurch
Half of the fluid is taken to be ‘treated’
But they can’t remove the toxic chemical risk
It’s taken to be dumped into the river
In with the otters, voles, the birds and the fish
Hydrochloric acid, Ethylene
Glycol, Formic acid, Benzene,
Lauryl Sulphate, Sodium Erythorbate
We’ve got to stop fracking before it’s too late
Cos there is no safe protection from the frac-fluid
Only for the corporate investor
Are the unforeseen environmental consequences
worth brutality towards the protester?
Contaminated drinking water
Limited knowledge of seismology
This short-term, poisonous, toxic, corrosive,
carcinogenic, radioactive process is pure folly!
So put the pressure on, the government are wrong
They have lackeys, but we have right on our side
Do what you can to cause a fracking ban
Create a future from which you won’t wanna hide
Stand side by side
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Triceratops
00:27
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In late Cretaceous north Pangaea
lived the triceratops
A plant eater with a three-horned face
triceratops
Up to 9 metres with a beak like a bird
Triceratops.
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Just because there was a meteor
and a big dust cloud that made it get real cold…
The biggest mass extinction wasn’t the one that happened to the dinosaurs
We evolved from 4% of species of the one 250 million years before
Permian – Triassic – a mono-continent existed on the planet
It was dramatic, ocean acidic, when an enormous volcano decided to split it.
Caused global warming, CO2 forming, bacteria emitted a hell a lotta methane,
Ozone depletion (mass extinction!) gamma radiation (decomposition!)
redistribution because of extinction –
Marine life develops complexity
The biggest mass extinction wasn’t the one that happened to the dinosaurs
We evolved from a fraction of species of the one 440 million years ago
Ordovician – Silurian – characterised by extreme glaciation
Oceans lack oxygen, sea levels drop and then, 86% of life on earth is lost again
Late Devonian, mass extinction, prolonged climate change 365 million
years ago, three quarters of species choked when algae suffocated the seas of oxygen –
So animals, insects, plants and amphibians
made their way onto the land
The biggest mass extinction wasn’t the one that happened to the dinosaurs
But do we understand our predicament of changing conditions beyond their sub-norms?
So if you think radically changing the environment will not affect you –
Look at the balance of pre-history and decide what’s true
Look at the fate of high food chain animals and decide what’s true
Look to the balance of geological history and decide what’s true
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We’re building walls on a shaking foundation but we’re too busy to notice
And when we’re done here we will leave pretty houses for a world where no one can live
With happiness always just out of reach, we follow the trails that run into the ground
To become kings of ashes we will burn the whole world down
But once we could drink from the well
We’ve sprayed our fields till the weeds grew resistant, pulled dragnets through every oceans
Replaced our forests with deserts and landfills to ensure a steady growth
We've poisoned the waters and ruined the crops so what do we say our kids turn to us
And ask us to justify all this mess - they will reap what we saw
Once we could drink from the well
The sky will open up and flush out all the filth
To settle the score
Soon our bloated remains, stuffed with plastic bits
will wash upon the shore
And form a new foundation in all colors and shapes
For future generations
To build their shaking lives and be reminded of us
Once we could drink from the well
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This apex predator go hunt for frozen food and stand in line in shopping malls
Waiting the fall
Its roars of complete victory can be heard, its carbon footprints shake the earth
Waiting the fall
But when the power goes, we’ll go out with a shock
And when the dinosaurs come back to feed we’re fucked
We’re fucked!
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Stöj Snak - Cosmic Irony
02:11
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For so long we’ve heard the same old song
Right now, it’s our last chance to change the path we're on
With waves of heat, barren fields and floods
This thing’s been looming long to put an end to us
If these threats came from some foreign nation
We would have wiped it out years ago
What we need is a common enemy
this one can occupy the (entire) weapons industry
A war for all that’ll make our children proud
And leave a home for their children, able to sprout
It’s time to change the tide so it won’t kill us
And turn these good intentions into ways
We’ve got a fucking war to win
Don’t you see the cosmic irony
In pressing on this way and putting all our faith
In terraforming of some distant rock
When we can’t even take care of the one we’ve got
I'd love to see the world from your perspective
But my head won't fit that far up my ass
All our spoils somehow turned us defective
But it's not the end of the world, just of us
We got a fucking war to win
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Speed Dinosaurs England, UK
We formed in 2010, though have known each other since childhood. We play fast skiffle punk on ukulele, double bass and cajon with lots of harmonies. We hope you enjoy our music :)
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