The Tipping Point

 

It hasn't rained in Madagascar for four years

And the cries there mostly fall upon deaf ears

But now the rains are coming at a hundred miles an hour

and four times in a month the people there will feel the power

of a climate that is changing, air that's turning sour

and a first world oblivious to the sound

Huge parts of Australia are on fire

and the animals have nowhere left to hide

their habitats are burning along with people's homes

as the world looks on in disbelief and swears they're not alone

then carries on a lifestyle that needs to be outgrown

we're all picking out own planet to the bone

While Australia burns, South Asia's underneath

floods and landslides that force people to flee

a third of Bangladesh is underwater from the storms

and twelve million people have been forced to leave their homes

each one a human story with nowhere left to go

on the frontline of a problem we all own

Greenlands ice is falling to the sea

As a direct consequence of you and me

But you and I in isolation are not the only ones to blame

Corporate greed and mass consumption are the things lighting the flames

If we're going to carry on surviving we need to change our ways 

Before we're past the tipping point and it's too late