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Music can be a voice of protest,

rallying people to a common cause
 

Musicians can tell stories that matter, 

with humour and compassion,
with beauty and power

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Music provides solidarity, community
and solace for our souls in challenging times

 

From the biggest stages to the local singing group

at a political protest, music speaks to power

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We know the story ...

how (some) humans
 

through burning fossil fuels for energy

massive land clearances and

unsustainable industrial agricultural practices,

 

have raised the temperature of the planet 

 

changing the climate ...  and the future
 

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Yet, what many of us have yet to understand is the scale and speed

of these changes
 

The world we built, know and understand

will increasingly no longer work on this changing planet

 

The planetary crisis is not an environmental 'issue'

it is a change of Era

 

There is no going back to the safety of the past

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... and this really does change everything

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The risks produced by a destabilised climate system

are reshaping every part of our future

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An orderly transition is no longer possible
 

Now we must figure out how to live in the long emergency

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Music for a Warming World 

is a musical and visual journey about

living with this new, dangerous and messy future
 

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It is a conversation infused with the

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power and emotion

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insights and joy

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of music and art

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The story has four parts ...

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Part 1 Acknowledgement

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'We've taken a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blown it on assorted bling'

(Richard Powers, The Overstory).

 

Successfully navigating the future starts with acknowledging that everything has now changed.

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Part 2 Letting Go

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Much of what we love and cherish will be lost in the coming years:

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The Great Barrier Reef, stunning glaciers, much of our forests ...

 

Hundreds of thousands of other species, and countless millions of other-than-human animals who are dying and will continue to die ...

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The loved places, traditions, history and homes of many many humans ...

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And the many people who will die from the 'un-natural' disasters that will keep coming

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We are called to bear witness

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We must learn to grieve

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Part 3 Courage and Compassion

 

We now need to face this future with determination

 

We not ready for the scale and speed of the planetary crisis

 

This future will challenge us

 

Yet, we still have a chance of a future worth living for

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After grief, we need to build courage to create new and powerful stories (social narratives) to replace those that got us into this mess

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We'd do well to listen much more closely to indigenous peoples whose have cared for country for millennia

And cultivate compassion and care to support and guide us because we can only get through this with strong diverse and inclusive communities

 

Part 4 Regeneration

 

When much of the living world has been lost or degraded, our future lies in regeneration, repair, and an ethic of care:

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For our forests, grass lands and the non-humans who live there

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Bringing the living world back to cities

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Restoring our soils and our farming communities

Building new energy systems that rely on the sun, wind and storage.

We have a chance but little time left. Let's role up our sleeves with courage and compassion to imagine a new future worth living for.

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