This Green Rap entitled Change your mind faster than mine talks about the difficulty to change our behaviours once we become environmentally and ethically informed of the impact of our own consumption and production.
I feel as though I am so slow at processing information about climate change and other concerning environmental issues. It’s because this information also confronts me with myself, my own actions. It took me so long before reducing my meat consumption. But our behaviours should change faster than mine if we want to achieve healthy lives for all in the long term. “We are on the pathway to change this together! Not to compare or judge We have to cooperate and nudge each other! Please let’s not scream at each other It makes people’s ears even smaller” :).
Lyrics
Why? Are we so closed?
To information that just has been disclosed?
When-it-is so new!, we are not open
We-feel-like-everything-around-us-has-been-broken
We rather go back to our own known notions
It’s maybe to prevent all negative emotions
What are you thinking now? I’m sure It has changed somehow
I am not here to blame, I am not here to shame
I was exactly the same
But now it’s time to change
And I am here to say
To change your mind faster than mine
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To make the world a better place
With care and truth at its core
This is what we should have done before
But never too late
It’s time to change
Let’s go to the graveyard
of our first thoughts and behaviours
To give up your beliefs and habits
And think about the reason behind it
I know it’s hard! Doing good is not an easy task!
No one wants! To be considered nasty So make it belong to the past
What you need is consistency! Between your values and activities!
But you Don’t see what you’re doing wrong
So don’t worry we’ll increase transparency
We are on the pathway to change this together!
Not to compare or judge
We have to cooperate and nudge each other!
Please let’s not scream at each other
It makes people’s ears even smaller
Ju.
At 18 years old, I started my Bachelor’s in Global Sustainability Sciences and had to face the many inconvenient truths about what our system does to the world. I discovered the connection between my European lifestyle and the negative impacts it has on the health, livelihoods and environment of distant people. I watched documentaries about plastic waste, e-waste, the fast fashion industry etc.
This was an intense eye-opening year and I was flooded with emotions…The frustration and sadness that emerged from this also pushed me to advocate for urgent action to change the system towards a more environmentally and socially sustainable one. I wrote these “Green Raps” (didn’t find a better name hihi), as a way to express my emotions and share my thoughts on these complex topics.
I write down what I feel, what I think, what I care about, what makes me angry and what I want to scream to the world. My thoughts and emotions come together quite intuitively into lyrics that I can then sing and communicate through rhythm and melody.
Julie Thibaudeau
PS: My lyrics are available on my website (see the section called « Conflicts and Barriers » ): https://www.greencollective.online
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