Readers recommend playlist: songs about climate change
by Sheila Deane from on (#1C2YC)
From the prescient lyrics of Jackson Browne to Michael Jackson getting angry about humans destroying the Earth, here are the tunes that made this week's playlist
Below is this week's playlist - picked by a reader from the comments on last week's blog. Thanks for your suggestions. Read more about the weekly format of the Readers recommend series at the end of the piece.
In 1974, Jackson Browne's celebration of the back-to-the-land movement, Before the Deluge, which starts this week's playlist, contained this one eerily prescient verse that served to dampen the spirits of that generally optimistic generation: