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The Sweet Spot Song

First of all, let me start by showing deep respect for Greta Thunberg (Instagram, Twitter) who has recently during COP24 stood up against the (political) leaders of the World telling them they have failed with respect to prevent Climate breakdown. I deeply sympathize with her cause because she shows all of us that the current socio-economic systems with their endless growth paradigm don’t work any longer as they were supposed to.

Greta shows great inspirational leadership not only for her generation but she challenges the World to take action. This blog is just a very small action I can now take myself to help Greta’s generation (and the ones coming after that) survive as good as possible, given the enormous challenges humanity now faces.

So with this blog I take a first step in co-responsibility not only for Greta’s generation and the generations after that, but also feel co-responsible for my own generation. I think generations should now not be polarized but start to help each other whereever they can.

I am also very inspired by Kate Raworth with her Doughnut concept which should inspire the World to rethink economics. In one of her blogs she shows an graphic 4-quadrant idea for humanity to try to find a new Sweet Spot and in fact shows allmost all countries of the World that they are still far failing to reach the Sweet Spot. This quadrant model inspired me to develop an idea about a Sweet Spot Song and I now think this Sweet Spot Song idea can also be linked also to Greta’s callout for action.

This ‘generation’ perspective Greta is showing us, reminded me of the time in my youth where there was also kind of rebellion. Only then it was not rebellion against extinction but rebellion against the older generation dominating the younger. At that time, a famous Rock Band called “The Who” created a hit called “My Generation”. This inspired me to transform the lyrics and link them to the current hot topic: 6th Mass Extinction. So the title changes from ‘My Generation’ to ‘Our Extinction’ and the lyrics, well you understand. So here go the new lyrics (first idea, any suggestions or improvements welcome). Tip: play the current song while you read the new lyrics and try to get a feeling about how the new lyrics fit to the old melody:

Title: Our Extinction

Climate tries to put us d-down (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
Just because we get around (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
Things it causes look awful b-bad (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
It really really makes us sad (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)