We’re Not in Denial

[spoken, various]
Green recovery! No more fossil fuels!

[Pasiphae]
We accept there is a problem
We acknowledge there's a problem
No need to put this great regime on trial

We will find the best solutions
Cost effective tech solutions
No tick box panaceas from the rank and file

'Cause we're not in denial
The sea is really rising
To hold it back awhile a fleeting dance we are devising [With plastic?]

We're not in dеnial
With courage and conviction
Their genеs we'll modify, save the wildlife from extinction

[spoken, Daedalus]
Heat resistant koalas?

[Pasiphae]
We can live our lives aplenty
Keep on buying keep on spending
Our miners mining so it never ends

[spoken, Daedalus]
It's a finite-

[Pasiphae, Daedalus]
We can bury our emissions Where?
Send the landfill to the moon And the carbon costs?
Make floating heat reflectors to deflect the sun's [?] to space before the rising temperature triggered apocalypse descends

We're not in denial
Turn CO2 to diamonds
With lots of knobs and dials
They'll sow the warning sirens
We're not in denial
Robotics clearing litter
The robots being trialed clear plastics, even glitter!

We're not in denial
Invest in green computers
Old tech we now revile, we'll future-proof our futures

[spoken]
Ha! And here is Professor Daedalus of my newly created department for the environment to lay out our green recovery plans

[Daedalus]
The cleverest inventions can't prevent global disaster
I don't mean to alarm you but I'm speaking under oath
No more buying no more whining
Quit the flying and the mining
Forget your carbon capture we need radical degrowth

[spoken, Pasiphae]
You're off-message Prof, talk about the AI designed synthetic coral reefs

[Daedalus, Pasiphae]
We are in denial We're not in denial
Technology can't save us
We have to change our styles
Our profligate behaviours

Let's accept denial It is not denial
Deny our greedy yearning
Live simply for a while
Respect the world is burning

To lose some pleasures may be challenging to stomach
But we must reconcile, must find a balance or we're lost
Society is teetering, the world is set to plummet
Deny it and we're done it for so decry it at your cost

[Pasiphae, Daedalus]
You're simply vile No more denial
The rising bile No more
You have defiled No more
See how you smile No more

You're simply vile No more
The rising bile No more
You face exile No more
Ha! Guards, take him away No more denial