The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 140,000 people. According to the World Health Organization, global warming kills an eerily similar 140,000 people a year.
Maybe Neil Young’s metaphor is pretty goddamn apt after all.
Oh, and the tarsands DO look like a humongous bomb was dropped on them. (I guess a volcano might make a place sorta look like this too).
The pearl-clutching over Neil Young’s Hiroshima analogy is just too precious.
Yes he is so misinformed , but oh i love his music….sweet caroline is one of my favourites. I like to listen to it in my large truck.