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Dear Animals
You’re going/coming down with us.

Commentary
Humanity’s pathetic, inadequate, insincere ‘explanation’ to the rest of the animal kingdom regarding how we’re taking them with us to extinction through carbon emissions & climate change.

Dear Animals
Do you remember the dodo?

- ‘cause I’m not sure that we do.
It’s just our future plans

mean something similar for you.

(The future we’ve lined up

looks rather similar for you.)

Dear Animals
Remember Noah’s ark?
Two-by-two, get one free trip…

but this time it’s Titanic.

All aboard our sinking ship!

It is not that we do not love you.  We do all

- & of course you want to live.

It’s just our lust for burning fossil fuel

means something else has to give.

bats, cats, rats, dogs
elephants, hedgehogs

frogs

tweeters, bleaters

giant anteaters

cheetahs

stallions, mares

giraffes, dolphins, cows, bears

hares

kangaroos

cockatoos, pigs, emus

gnus

chimpanzees

coyotes, camels, monkeys

bees

painted wolves, penguins

pandas & pangolins

lions

hippopotamus

duck-billed platypus

rhinoceros

alpacas, llamas

zebras, koalas

tigers

baboons, racoons, armadillos

orang utans, chinchillas

gorillas

 Guest Vocalists include:-

* A donkey
* A cockerel

* An elephant

* Rather a lot of sheep
* Some painted wolves

* Some macaque monkeys

* Some northwestern wolves

* Gibbons at Chiang Mai zoo (‘wak woo’ to you too!)

* A lion
* A dog

* A cow

* 2 cats
* A tiger

* A raven

* A horse

* A goose

Composer
Ed Hooke

Written
June-September 2024

Recorded
December 2024