Climate Fuckers (Song)

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Climate Fuckers is a collaborative re-write, started by members of Rising Tide Newcastle, of the original song "Forest Fuckers".

[edit] Original

"Forest Fuckers" was released on the CD compilation "Lock On! Songs to Save Australia's forests." It is performed by Liina with words and music by Rain, Jai, Ochre, Ness and others and was produced by Andy Parks at Raw Power Productions, mixed at SCU in November, 1998. The "Lock On!" song sheet says that "This song was written by a group of people at the East Gippsland blockades in 1993. It has been carried far and wide by activists with guitars and good memories who have managed to learn all the words. A part of blockading culture, this is the first time it has been recorded and released." See the Raw Power Productions website: http://www.byron-bay.com/rawpower

[edit] Lyrics

     'cause we dig the rock
Quarry carbon
Cause climate chaos
Open-cut the creek
Choke the kids
kill for making energy?
     In the coal economy

     'cause we sluice cement
take timber
mine the minerals,
press our parliamentary pals
neuter nature and set off calamity
     CFMEU are we

     'cause we jet to Java in a jumbo
Just jump to Geneva
jettisoning joules
jotting travel diaries
     frequent flyers are we

     'Cause we keep consuming,
Keep chewing up the product
Cocoon me from the climate in my
Air-conditioned-4-wheel-driven-gated-community
     lock away anxiety

     'cause we fund the forest fuckers
finance fossil fuels
fly over the inferno
fleece our friends and fuck-over-local-communities
     investment banks are we

     'cause we squander, waste and dispose
in a decomposing culture
throw away, turnover  the subdued majority
     customers are we

     'cause we crash the party
economic heretics
trainstopping, trespassing, banner-dropping
and disrupting industry
     the rising tide are we

     'cause WE want real solutions
that will cause much less pollution
decentralize production
return power to the whole community
     it's the only solution we see

     and we use science
to fuel the rage of our defiance
at the capitalist reliance
on loot-rape-and-pillage economy
     eco-anarchists are we

[edit] Other Possibilities

     'cause we cover concrete
cut it down
cut the coal
club the common-sense clean occupation
cause we want to keep our club
     CFMEU are we

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