3 Times Punk Bands Predicted the Climate Crisis
Punk rock has always been progressive and forward-thinking with many of its most well-known protagonists taking anti-racist, anti-sexist and anti-imperialist stances.
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5 min readSep 13, 2021
Since the 1970s, some punk bands have also been raging about the fragile state of the planet, desperately attempting to get us to listen before it’s too late…
Punks are generally angry folk. Angry at the government, angry at the state of the planet; just plain furious in general. Their lyrics contain searing broadsides against injustice in our societies with the burning desire to change and motivate change in their listeners.
A variety of difficult topics have been tackled over the years since punk’s inception in the late 1960s. This article focusses on 3 examples of ‘eco-punk’, or the phenomenon of punks pumping out a message of climate stewardship in the vain hope that we might leave the world a better place for the next generation.
