On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave me:
Put a carbon tax on my pear trees.
On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave me:
Two melting glaciers,
Put a carbon tax on my pear trees.
On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave me:
three canceled pipes,
Two melting glaciers,
Put a carbon tax on my pear trees.
On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave me:
four dead eagles (thanks to wind turbines),
three canceled pipes,
Two melting glaciers,
Put a carbon tax on my pear trees.
On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave me:
Five rotating blades!
(But there is no electricity…)
four dead eagles,
three canceled pipes,
Two melting glaciers,
Put a carbon tax on my pear trees.
On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave me:
Six solar panels froze,
Five rotating blades!
four dead eagles,
three canceled pipes,
Two melting glaciers,
Put a carbon tax on my pear trees.
On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave me:
seven climate summits,
Six solar panels froze,
Five rotating blades!
four dead eagles,
three canceled pipes,
Two melting glaciers,
Put a carbon tax on my pear trees.
On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave me:
Eight Greta Speeches,
seven climate summits,
Six solar panels froze,
Five spinning blades!
four dead eagles,
three canceled pipes,
Two melting glaciers,
Put a carbon tax on my pear trees.
On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave me:
Nine activists are bonding,
Eight Greta Speeches,
seven climate summits,
Six solar panels froze,
Five rotating blades!
four dead eagles,
three canceled pipes,
Two melting glaciers,
Put a carbon tax on my pear trees.
On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave me:
Ten cities suffered power outages.
Nine activists are bonding,
Eight Greta Speeches,
seven climate summits,
Six solar panels froze,
Five rotating blades!
four dead eagles,
three canceled pipes,
Two melting glaciers,
Put a carbon tax on my pear trees.
On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave me:
Modeled by eleven experts,
Ten cities suffered power outages.
Nine activists are bonding,
Eight Greta Speeches,
seven climate summits,
Six solar panels froze,
Five rotating blades!
four dead eagles,
three canceled pipes,
Two melting glaciers,
Put a carbon tax on my pear trees.
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave me:
Twelve missions failed,
Modeled by eleven experts,
Ten cities suffered power outages.
Nine activists are bonding,
Eight Greta Speeches,
seven climate summits,
Six solar panels froze,
Five rotating blades!
four dead eagles,
three canceled pipes,
Two melting glaciers,
Put a carbon tax on my pear trees.
Conclusion:
This Christmas carol may not appear in school recitals, but it is a pleasant reminder to balance practicality with ambition when solving energy and environmental problems. After all, no one wants their pear trees to be taxed or their eagles to fall victim to spinning blades.
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