NASA Helped to produce a “Hip-Hop Climate Change Rap To End All Climate Change Raps.” wow, when all else is lost, “throw in some Rap Music”. I’m glad NASA’s paying attention to this, but for real? For real?

I mean, it’s not like their making publicly available any of their plans to shuttle bus kids with environmental cancer in the Bronx to one of the secret spaceships we know their building.

“Take Aim At Getting Out of the Hood, so that I don’t have to Breathe Smog from all these damn power plants?”

That should be the name of the song. I wish I was in the board room for this decision. I would have played the Roots & Mos Def’s song, Rising Song, ”I know where I’m goin even when it’s dark and being led down that road / You don’t see that somethings wrong, the earth spinning out of control.”

So, I appreciate the effort and good work on behalf of the artists who made what it looks like a sincere effort to make a pop rap song, but in the spirit of Rakim, envisioning what the God MC would say his the lawn of his phenomenal land in the Poconos, PA, “this is not how it should be done.”

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Thanks to Michael over at Eco Razzi for giving us this good food for thought.

This is an all too common testament in cities across America.  According to(statistics needed) …How do we address this? What can we do? What can you, as one person, do?

We’ve heard too many statistics too many times. Cities across America have severely higher rates of asthma compared to national averages.  These aren’t small numbers either. 10 times higher, 20 times higher… 50 times higher.

Take charge… with others.

The only way to stop the pollution in our communities and prevent the lungs of our young ones from being infiltrated by smog is to aggressively combat it.

Fight it…with more Green, with more trees, and more responsibility.  Yes, cutting down local pollution rates needs to work hand-in-hand. But some of that is a bit out of total control. Reducing car omission rates (People need to drive, hybrid cars are expensive or not accessible to our communities.) is a lot more difficult than planting more trees and not littering but rather recycling. Lets do what we have the ability to do. That’s more restructuring of our communities and gaining better habits.

Right?