Our home is a beautiful blue planet drifting in space. It is the only home we have which can sustain us, the only home we have ever known, and the only home we probably will ever know. We share it with each other and the entire natural world, but that relationship is at risk of changing forever.
Prompted by a conversation between DJ Mary Anne Hobbs and Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja in November 2024, "One Point Five> Two” is a commentary on the persistent collective inaction of global governments to heed scientists' warnings about the challenge of climate change, imagining how a balanced, harmonious ecosystem can slowly unravel and descend into chaos and hostility.
"One Point Five> Two" is not music for pleasure. It is intended to be unsettling, uncomfortable, and at times perhaps even unpleasant to listen to, reflecting the nature of the future which scientists warn we, and our children, could face.
WHERE TO BUY
FULL RELEASE : Available to stream and buy on Bandcamp from 18th July 2025.
All sales proceeds will be donated to Greenpeace.
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FULL STATEMENT
In the late 1960’s and early 1970s, scientists began warning governments about the prospective impact human behaviour may be having on our planet’s climate. Over subsequent decades a significant scientific consensus coalesced around the theory that not only is the planet’s climate changing, but that this change is man-made and happening faster than at any time in history. Nasa currently states that 97% of scientists agree with this situation.
In 2015, representatives from 196 countries came together in Paris to discuss the importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in order to slow down climate change, and avoid potentially catastrophic impacts on ecosystems, economies, and societies. The Paris Climate Agreement aims to restrict average global temperatures to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels by 2100, with an additional Internation Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) aim to restrict increases to 1.5 degrees to minimize the effects of global warming
Large sections of the scientific community have warned for many years that a rise of 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels will be a tipping point, leading to a chain reaction of severe and widespread irreversible effects, such as extreme weather events, ecosystem disruption, loss of biodiversity, water scarcity, food insecurity, damage to infrastructure, and economic collapse.
For decades, governments have claimed to have listened to the warnings of climate scientists, yet continued to follow a path which avoids this most pressing of issues, choosing to act in the best interests of monolithic organisations who continue to dig up fossil fuels and pump billions of tonnes of noxious harmful gasses into our atmosphere, all in the relentless pursuit of economic growth to satisfy shareholders.
And now, in 2025, current events indicate what little progress has been made to protect our Pale Blue Dot may be being undone, with some global leaders, elected and unelected, appearing intent on undermining action by withdrawing from international environmental protection agreements in order to protect the drive for economic growth at all costs. Meanwhile, lobbyists continue to press the public to reject not only the data which scientists spent decades collating, but the evidence of their own eyes and ears as well.
“One Point Five > Two” is a commentary on the persistent and ongoing collective inaction of the world's governments to act on behalf of the global population, bowing down to corporate lobbyists while failing to even begin to address the potentially catastrophic impact climate change will have on our planet and all life which depends upon it. The piece imagines our world and what may happen if we continue a course of inaction and the scientists' predictions prove accurate.
Our beautiful jewel of a planet, drifting through the cosmos, the home we all share with each other, the only home we have, and the only home we will ever have which can sustain our wonderful and diverse ecosystem, is at risk of changing forever.