Eco-protest music?

The doomsday clock is closer to midnight than ever before, in part due to climate change. We put more carbon into the atmosphere in 2024 than any previous year. Microplastics are inescapable. We’re starting to see we’re living through the most extreme mass extinction this world has seen in its entire 4 billion year lifespan. The world is dying, and it’s an existential threat.

So where’s the music? Maybe it exists, but I haven’t found it. And I would really expect it to be there. Previous generations music reflected the biggest issues of their day, and today nothing is more critical than the climate crisis.

I’m not looking for music that spreads the message of telling people that they should remember to turn off their lights and recycle. That not enough. The issue is systematic.

I’m not looking for music that tries to curb the climate crisis by working within the system. The system is run by those who profit off of poising us. Working within the system without first gaining more leverage is futile.

I’m not looking for doomer music either.

Recently, a man named Luigi allegedly shot a healthcare CEO. I’m looking for that type of energy, but in relation to climate action. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see a healthcare reform. But the number of innocents murdered by that healthcare CEO is going to be negligible compared to the death toll coming at us from climate change. Healthcare would great, but it won’t matter if we end up with a runaway greenhouse effect that makes this planet uninhabitable.

Basically, I’m looking for climate crisis protest music that falls into Malcom’s “By any means necessary” line of thinking rather than MLKs “We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence”

Ideally, the music would actually sound good too. I’m open to most genres, but I typically draw the line at nearly unintelligible screaming over a discordant cacophony.

I generally really like clever wordplay and not overly repetitive lyrics, but neither of those are strict requirements.

I don’t care how popular the music is. If it’s something more popular than this sub usually allows, I’d still love if you point me in that direction, because clearly I’m not personally familiar with it.