Global warming activism / (the dream)

(This poem is meant to be read as two simultaneous voices.)

Global warming activism		(the dream)
Michael Stipe didn't quite get it
With the lead and feathers
They only fall the same in vacuum
Air makes them fall differently
Air is always falling on you
Light, air, all needs to fall just right
For you to keep on going
1995
There's a problem
Bouncing light, re-radiation
Infrared hits ground again
Before it leaves the air		(Cue R.E.M.)
They said it's not real at all		Buy the sky and
And it's really better for us all		sell the sky and
And we can't fix it at all		tell the sky and
And fixing it would cost it all		tell the sky
I thought the denialists would fall
The brand new "Web" site
Got a scientist
In with Congressional staff
I didn't think they could last
2000
		There's the progress
We have found a way		We have found a way
To talk about the problem		to talk around the problem
The call from Munich Re
They insure insurance
They were helpful
Got numbers from them about
Costs of great weather disasters
We ran ads we ran lots of ads
It turned out not to matter
Munich didn't help
Foresight isn't worth anything at all		Foresight isn't anything at all
2005
		Well I would keep it above but then it
Bodies floating by in New Orleans		wouldn't be sky any more
2009
Can we agree on cap and trade?		Buy the sky and
We can make a scheme for trade		sell the sky and
They say they believe in trade		lift your arms
They don't believe in trade		up to the sky
They built on trading in racism
Millions will be killed
They'll say they didn't know
2013
Revealed preferences:
What people want is what they buy
American Electric Power is #1
They want AEP, they don't want power
Can't buy public goods
2014
What do people actually want to do?
I heard on the radio, you're happy
"if you feel like a room without a roof"
Well yeah! finally a plan we can do
Hurricanes and floods will do it
Everyone can have a room without a roof
We can be happy and not down		And ask the sky
CO2 high won't bring me down		and ask the sky
Our system's wrong and will fall down		Fall on me
Ask the sky to pour it down		Fall on me
And fall, fall on me

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Lyrics quoted from R.E.M. "Fall on me" 1986, Pharrell Williams "Happy" 2013