Mentioned in Dispatches: I Think We All Gonna Die – Tessa Forrest

There must be a word for that sense of utter dread that we all feel from time to time when watching the news, scrolling through social media, or listening to politicians spout their rhetoric while our society, species and planet plummets beyond its tipping point into the abyss. There must be, but until I can think of it, you’ll just have to use this latest song from Tessa Forrest as a placeholder.

A folk-protest song built out of alt-rock sonics, it neatly captures that feeling of doom. If you agree with the eminent author Kurt Vonnegut, who boldly and bleakly stated, “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective,” then this is the song for you.