Tim Ellis

Mercedes Benz

by Tim Ellis

Wednesday 19th July 2017 12:32 pm

with apologies to Janis Joplin

Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Ma friends are all truck drivers ah must make amends

by blowin' clouds of black smoke from ma supercharged back end.

Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Oh Lord won't you fiddle me the exhaust test readin's down

so ah can poison ma neighbors as ah drive around,

belchin' nitrous oxide all around the town.

Oh Lord won't you fiddle me the exhaust test readin's down.

Oh Lord won't you buy me a 5 litre SUV.

Destroying the planet is ma liberty!

Causin' meltin' ice caps and the risin' of the sea.

Oh Lord won't you buy me a 5 litre SUV.

(everybody!)

Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Ma friends are all truck drivers ah must make amends

by blowin' clouds of black smoke from ma supercharged back end.

Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

🌷 (1)

Janis Joplin Mercedes Benz Pollution

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Comments

M.C. Newberry

Thu 20th Jul 2017 16:48

I acknowledge the concerns about mankind's perceived
detrimental influence on the climate >that may have its
origins in the smoke-filled skies of the great industrial age,
now perhaps being replicated by emerging "giants" like
China and India.
One thing has always intrigued me and has never been
properly answered: the situation in Antarctica, a region
vulnerable to volcanic activity and about as far from any
human industrial activity as you can get, with no explanation
- or proof? - of how mankind's industrial pollution actually
finds its way to that most remote "bottom of the world" location.

Tim Ellis

Thu 20th Jul 2017 10:41

I agree that we could help the planet somewhat if we all stopped eating beef, Wolfgar. On the other hand, I've always been sceptical about the "cows cause more global warming than cars" theory. True, they produce methane which is a more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, but the source of the carbon in methane is atmospheric CO2 via the grass and feed that cows eat, and methane in the atmosphere eventually oxidises back to CO2 with a half life of about 7 years, so over the long term this pathway causes no net increase of greenhouse gases. The problem with burning fossil fuels is that we are taking carbon that has been safely stored underground for millions of years and adding it to the atmosphere. Also bear in mind that before humans started farming livestock, the plains of the world were covered in vast herds of bovine species - buffalo, bison, aurochs, yaks etc which would have been producing methane as part of the natural carbon cycle, and domestic cattle have merely replaced these.

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