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LOVE SONG TO THE EARTH

Climate change? Global warming? The plight of the polar bears with the polar ice cap melting? Wildfires? Flooding?

In 2015, a group of some of the world’s biggest names in music wrote and produced a song to support the United Nations’ call for countries around the world to help reduce climate change and global warming.  Sales of the song raise money for an organization called Friends of the Earth to keep polluting fossil fuels in the ground, to reduce pollution, and to inspire support for this cause around the world.

Here are some of the lyrics. Read them out loud before listening to the song to find three metaphors comparing the earth to other objects and to get the gist of the song.

Love Song To The Earth This is an open letter From me and you together Tomorrow's in our hands now Find the words that matter Say them out loud And make it better somehow Looking down from up on the moon It's a tiny blue marble Who would've thought the ground we stand on could be so fragile

This is a love song to the earth You're no ordinary world A diamond in the universe Heaven's poetry to us Keep it safe, keep it safe, keep it safe Cause it's our world, it's our world It's not about religion Money, or perception How many years we might live When the only real questions that matters is still a matter of perspective Looking down from up on the moon It's a tiny blue marble Who would've thought the ground we stand on could be so fragile...

As you listen to the song, try to figure out the theme and listen for the three metaphors you found.

 

Open your Writer's Notebook and complete responses for this song. Then return to the lesson.