<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><h1 class="Page-headline" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-width: semi-condensed; letter-spacing: -0.5px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font size="4">Pakistani musicians use folk songs and rap to raise climate change awareness</font></h1><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.55; font-width: normal; margin: 20px 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b>Excerpt </b></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.55; font-width: normal; margin: 20px 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">She said <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/hiphop-50th-anniversary-rap-music-bronx-ff1e8171a7a16242a85155e4d2c5b037" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(13, 110, 255);">hip-hop</a></span> isn\u2019t common in Pakistan, but the genre resonates because of its tradition as an expression of life, hardship and struggle.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.55; font-width: normal; margin: 20px 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She has yet to finish her latest climate change rap, but wrote one in response to the <span class="LinkEnhancement" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px);"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/floods-pakistan-1219d2eb74c383f9603bc81a293a90a9" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: calc(1em + 4px); touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(13, 110, 255);">2022 flooding in neighboring Balochistan, the country\u2019s poorest and least developed province</a></span>, because she felt it wasn\u2019t getting enough attention. She performed it at festivals in Pakistan and promoted it across her social media accounts. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">Officials at the time said more help was needed from the central government for people to rebuild their lives.</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.55; font-width: normal; margin: 20px 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">\u201cThere are potholes on the road; the roads are ruined,\u201d raps Urooj. \u201cI am telling the truth. Will your anger rain down on me? Where was the Balochistan government when the floods came? My pen thirsts for justice. Now they\u2019ve succeeded, these thieving rulers. This isn\u2019t a rap song, this is a revolution.\u201d</p><div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-climate-change-song-rap-music-sindh-province-034b38faf1136a75ef1025fe5b96e9b7">https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-climate-change-song-rap-music-sindh-province-034b38faf1136a75ef1025fe5b96e9b7</a><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world where economies are driven by consumption.\u201d<br><br>Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies. Nature Climate Change MAY 2018<br><br>Published online: 27 April 2018 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4 <br><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>\u201cWhat we are witnessing is a temper tantrum against the mere suggestion that there are limits to what we can consume.\u201d <br><br>Naomi Klein<br>https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/<br><br><br><br></div></div></div>
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