In Cambridge, our share in today’s Loss and Damage action was a song, based on the demands of the Loss and Damage petition. The song was at both ends of an hour spent gathering signatures for the petition and giving out leaflets about it.
THE LOSS AND DAMAGE SONG
(tune ‘Personent hodie’)
Climate change and its wounds —
what the world needs is funds,
funds of billions of pounds,
more than just a bandage,
more than I can manage.
Come COP27,
work to make things even,
put those pounds on the grounds,
mending loss and damage.
Let’s make sure our UK
is among those that pay.
We have dirtied our day
with our years’ pollution.
Here’s a resolution —
match the ash, ash, ash
pounds with cash, cash, cash.
It’s a wash, and a bash
at a best solution.
Should this nation pay more
when its people are poor?
Let the burden be for
dirty corporations.
Wipe them with taxations!
Tax ’em hard, hard, hard,
double-starred, starred, starred —
make their guilt and their gains
climate reparations.
Aidan Baker
CC BY-SA 2.0
And here’s the video of us singing, kindly filmed for us by Emma Collison and uploaded with her permission.
