'97
*by Sid Denison and the Harpooners
featuring Wages and Caravan Harriet*

Mark Colvin:
*The planet may be warming but Australia's plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions has been put in the freezer. The Federal Government after spending the last year warning of the costs of delay has now put its emissions trading scheme off until the end of 2012 at the earliest.

Penny Wong:
The fact is the longer we delay our response to climate change the harder our job will become and the more it will cost. We cannot run and we cannot hide. We can't wish it away and further delay will only make climate change worse.*

We cannot run and we cannot hide.
We cannot run and we cannot hide.
We cannot run and we cannot hide.
We cannot run and we cannot hide.

We heard the warnings, we saw the signs
But in the end we did nothing, nothing
There was talk with protocols signed
They all amounted to nothing, nothing
Endless pointless political debate
But no real will to legislate
How do we tell the children
We just left it far too late?

Mark Colvin:
2009 was the 2nd hottest year on record. And the past decade goes into the books as the hottest on record

American Geological Institute's Directory of Geoscience Departments:
97% of climatologists say global warming is occurring and caused by humans

Kevin Rudd:
Climate change is the great moral challenge of our generation. Climate change is not just an environmental challenge. Climate change is an economic challenge, a social challenge and actually represents a deep challenge on the overall question of national security.

We heard the warnings, we paid no heed
We simply did nothing, nothing
We succumbed to our collective greed
And we chose to do nothing, nothing
Endless pointless economic debate
But we still procrastinate
How do we tell the children
We just left it far too late?

We cannot run and we cannot hide.
We cannot run and we cannot hide.
We cannot run and we cannot hide.
We cannot run and we cannot hide.

We heard the warnings, we saw the signs
But in the end we did nothing, nothing
There was talk with protocols signed
They all amounted to nothing, nothing
We heard the warnings, we paid no heed
We simply did nothing, nothing
We succumbed to our collective greed
And we chose to do nothing, nothing
Endless pointless political debate
But we still procrastinate
How do we tell the children
We just left it far too late?
How do we tell the children
We just left it far too late?
How do we tell the children?

Caravan Harriet:
...you left it too late