California Redemption - Preserve And Protect Lyrics

Water tables are dropping
and the sea level is rising
and the land mass is shrinking
while the population explodes.

When are we going to deal with the over-population?
When are we going to face the effects of our pollution?
When are we going to put an end to our mass consumption?
The answer lies inside us all...here comes our self destruction?

Your economic theory can't explain our melting ice-caps
and your pocketbooks however big can't cover the cost of pay-back.

Soon these long-term effects --- of our mass consumption
will start to become short-term economic problems,
and the capitalists will derive their own set of outcomes
which will probably incorporate new types global/earth destruction?

Born into this world in a country where
your quality of life is based on how much you consume.
How much do you buy? How much did you pay?
How much did you destroy today?

People say that we're just victims of our own success
but do you really think that what we achieved is what is best?

The fate of the world depends on how we decide to live.
The things we do, the things we buy, affect the environment.

When are you going to open your eyes and see that your function
is not to contribute, but put an end to this destruction?
When are you going to realize that you can mend this world we live in?
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Water tables are dropping
and the sea level is rising
and the land mass is shrinking
while the population explodes.