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May 2, 2008 7:32 pm US/Eastern
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Harvey Ruvin Raps For A Cooler Earth
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
Miami-Dade Clerk of the courts Harvey Ruvin is a proper button down guy who keeps the records at the courthouse. So when you think pop culture, you don't think of Ruvin.
Hey, don't act surprised
When you see the sea levels rise
Because while the earth's been sweltering
The icecaps have been melting Yes, these are the lyrics to the rap song that Ruvin dishes out in a video called "A Call To Arms Against Global Warming." It was posted by the previously
uncool clerk of courts on YouTube.
"We've already got, almost a thousand hits, just in one day," said Ruvin.
Everywhere you look
Triple digits
Our leaders in Washington
Are mental midgets "Having a teenage son, I hear a lot of rap music. I could tell you all about Little Wayne and Tupac and all of them," he told
CBS4's Gary Nelson.But while he's down with rap, Ruvin wasn't down with rap's lack of involvement in meaningful issues.
"I started saying to my son, you know, the stuff you're listening to is not addressing the most important issue that faces your generation," he said.
Hey, if this generation don't get it..forget it.
And so Ruvin's rap on climate change goes on about a threat that he believes will put large parts of South Florida, and the world, underwater if left unchecked.
"I want to get this message across, not just to adults, but to young people, because it's their lives that are going to be most affected by the impacts of climate change and global warming."
Maybe, just maybe
We can take collective action
And bring emissions
to a fraction And Ruvin raps on, global warming might bring the world together on lots of fronts.
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