What It Might Look Like
A Thematic Progression
1. The Death March - Emotions of shame and sadness are evoked. The video sequence features adults in business suits with clown faces carrying an ornate and colourful and heavy coffin on their shoulders, until it becomes too much for them and they pass it on to a group of casually attired parents. They also struggle with the burden.
This is Mother Earth they are carrying. The load, the burden, the responsibility after decades, if not centuries of inaction, is huge. Finally, though they try their best, even the parents cannot carry the coffin any more and, reluctantly, they pass it over to their children, children of all ages and sizes, who heroically take their turn, though it is clearly a massive, impossible burden for them to carry.
This is a visual rendition of inept climate policies and what some have called "our generation's borrowing from future generations." Some say it is "unfair." I call it a massive crime against future generations.
2. Ma - Then we take a lighter view, celebrating the bounty and beauty of Mother Nature. Mothers of many cultures will dance with their young children against a lush backdrop of meadows, forests and mountains.
3. You Feed Us Fairy Stories - The world is upside down. The adults - or most of them - are playing games (territorial, sexual, political, all ego-based) while the real "adults in the room" are children (and adults with child-like hearts) like Greta Thunberg - and she gives the feckless "adults" a scolding. The video will feature a modern-day industrial or urban dystopia.
4. We Are The World - Based on an American standard, this celebrates our common humanity, but there is an edge. Since that original hit came out, the adult captains of industry and masters of congress have failed and continued to fail their children and future generations. We will pan across continents and cultural divides featuring the power in our diversity.
5. The Time - This is angry. At heart, the lyrics are hopeful. But the delivery is scornful and taunting of the cowardly and unimaginative adult "leaders" and followers, the majority of people of voting age who either just don't get it or pretend they don't. We are still working this out. I think we may have hip hip dancers and a revisit of the mothers with their children moving to the beat.
6. Finale - This is where it all comes together. New music erupts and Mother Earth emerges from her coffin to perform a dance of life. The bankers come to their senses and do useful work at the direction of the children. The climate crisis resolved - or is it?
This is Mother Earth they are carrying. The load, the burden, the responsibility after decades, if not centuries of inaction, is huge. Finally, though they try their best, even the parents cannot carry the coffin any more and, reluctantly, they pass it over to their children, children of all ages and sizes, who heroically take their turn, though it is clearly a massive, impossible burden for them to carry.
This is a visual rendition of inept climate policies and what some have called "our generation's borrowing from future generations." Some say it is "unfair." I call it a massive crime against future generations.
2. Ma - Then we take a lighter view, celebrating the bounty and beauty of Mother Nature. Mothers of many cultures will dance with their young children against a lush backdrop of meadows, forests and mountains.
3. You Feed Us Fairy Stories - The world is upside down. The adults - or most of them - are playing games (territorial, sexual, political, all ego-based) while the real "adults in the room" are children (and adults with child-like hearts) like Greta Thunberg - and she gives the feckless "adults" a scolding. The video will feature a modern-day industrial or urban dystopia.
4. We Are The World - Based on an American standard, this celebrates our common humanity, but there is an edge. Since that original hit came out, the adult captains of industry and masters of congress have failed and continued to fail their children and future generations. We will pan across continents and cultural divides featuring the power in our diversity.
5. The Time - This is angry. At heart, the lyrics are hopeful. But the delivery is scornful and taunting of the cowardly and unimaginative adult "leaders" and followers, the majority of people of voting age who either just don't get it or pretend they don't. We are still working this out. I think we may have hip hip dancers and a revisit of the mothers with their children moving to the beat.
6. Finale - This is where it all comes together. New music erupts and Mother Earth emerges from her coffin to perform a dance of life. The bankers come to their senses and do useful work at the direction of the children. The climate crisis resolved - or is it?
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