Save the Earth Song
Poet James Brown explores the perils of inertia and disassociation when it comes to climate change.
About this resource
Series: School Journal Level 4 May 2021
Reading year level: 7
Category: Fiction
Topics: change, citizenship, climate change, cycle, disassociation, environment, group psychology, human behaviour, inertia, language, poetry, procrastination, responsibility, social action, taking action, verse
Save the Earth Song
Words by James Brown
Illustrations by Jo Tronc
Implicit to the poem is a fundamental question: Why do so many people do nothing when we know the stakes are so high? This is a companion text to recent level 4 journal articles about climate change.