- Hello and welcome, may I have your attention
This is Robert Foster back with the debut transmission
Of a brand new segment, in express bulletin format
about an urgent matter, a Rap News ‘Call Out'.
While we await the next full episode in this program,
we cross to Australia where a disaster is unfolding
to learn more we speak to correspondent Ken Oathcarn
It looks like you’re near the ocean - Ken Oathcarn!
That’s right, chief! I’m on the Great Barrier Reef
One of the Seven Natural Wonders; it’s beyond belief
Visible from space and home to shed loads of fucken’ fish
no wonder it’s on the top of lots of cunts’ bucket list.
But just a tic: you know why it’s called the Great Barrier ay?
- Er, why? - Cos it’s a Great Bloody Barrier to trade!
That's why we Aussies have been trying hard to get it cleared;
we’ve already killed half its coral in the last thirty years!
And that’s just a mere sign of what’s next...
- What’s that? - Unless Strayans protest and divest...
we’ll turn this UNESCO protected world heritage site
into a waystation for the Galilee Basin’s mega mines
by dredging, dumping on the coral or coast line,
to export coal to the world from here at Abbott Point.
Picture lines of ships, seven thousand plus
with open carriages and barges spilling toxic coal dust
all over the largest living structure on the planet
a deed for which Australia can take full credit.
- But isn’t the price of coal dramatically dropping?
Will this project even yield any profit?
- Well, not for Aussies... Adani will imbibe it right up!
But along with climate change, all this fine flying dust
will bleach the coral to death... bye bye, fucks!
And anything that makes Straya whiter is fine by us!
- Thanks, Ken. It seems we have two paths ahead of us
Either hurry up and visit this reef while it still exists,
and be happy that at least it will be seen by our kids
on Google Street View once it’s completely extinct.
Or, you can ensure it persists for generations in the future
by supporting this mob (click here on your computer)
and by cutting your ties with this lot, to convince them
not to finance the reef’s extinction.
Australians: history and posterity are viewing this
to see if the Great Barrier Reef will survive under your stewardship.
Thanks for heeding this Call Out from Rap News
We’ll be back soon with a full episode; stay tuned.
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