Onward to the trees, citizens!

Here is a song by Yannick Noah, a popular French singer, who used to be tennis champion, winner of Roland Garros in 1983. To my ears, it explains well exactly the urgency of the situation and invites people to take green actions.

I found a pretty good translation of the lyrics on: http://www.cucumis.org/translation_1_t/view-the-translation_v_54735.html (it sounds way better in French though)

Cement across the plains
Flows into the mountains
Poison in the fountains
Through our countrysides

Out of tornadoes
Our history is sinking
Our ideal remains
"To strut our stuff"

Buying air in blocks
Filling the balance:
Some petrodollars
In exchange for existence

From the equator to the poles
This weight on our transitory
squatters' shoulders...
It isn't funny anymore

Since we must change things
Onward to the trees, citizens!
It's time for us to propose
A world for tomorrow!

Onward to the trees, citizens!
Some slaps we are due
The watch is for tomorrow
Some slaps due in return

Making an army of reeds
Stand firm
No more people kneeling
Pass the word

It's true that the Earth is round
But who's to tell us
That it is for everyone...
And the ones to come...

No time left to know who's to blame
to count the chances or the others
Now we should fight
With you I do believe