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“The Clock” talks about time running out for humanity and its problems. Thom Yorke called this the most explicit song about environmental concerns on "The Eraser". In a TV interview he elaborated on this:
"That was born out the anger of watching the heads of state around the globe saying “yes we really must do something about this”
And no one’s grappling with the wider question
The most frightening thing I found about what’s going on at the moment is that no one is engaging with the fact that we can’t have endless growth, we can’t endlessly consume as human beings.
This is no longer like smelly hippies talking. Anybody who’s got time to think about it should be thinking to themselves, “hang on a minute, there’s something fundamentally flawed about the way we’re proceeding.” Most hang on to the illusion that this is going to happen in a couple of hundred years, and it’s not. We’re talking about 50 years."
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