Personal Response 1 Earth Song 
Earth Song!
Michael Jackson!
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The biggest problem in todays world is that we are blinded to see the damage that is being done to our planet earth and how it has affected the lives of many especially the lives of innocent children. Throughout this song we can see no future ahead of us without the society changing and for them to show humanity. In the song ‘Earth Song’ written and performed by the King of Pop Michael Jackson exposes the cruelness of society and how we are the reason for not living the life that was promised to us, and make us examine ourselves.! !
Through this song Michael Jackson talks about our planet earth and how we the society are destroying it and because of this what has been affected because of ‘us’. The environmental issues that Michael addressed throughout this song was deforestation and overfishing in our very own oceans which is getting rid of the species existence more and more as the days go by. One heartbreaking issue is that mentioned is innocent children dying or should we say they are being killed because of selfish people in our society just as Michael says “Did you ever stop to notice, All the children dead from war?” Doesn't this just shatter your hearts knowing because of us other people are dying? Nearly the whole song is full of rhetorical questions that strike us like an arrow to our chest piercing through every tissue and cell within us which shakes us completely because we are accountable for the state our planet is at the moment and Michael makes his point clear that we know all of this in happening and that we are choosing to ignore it all. This song should be studied by Year 12 students as it opens the eyes of the future leaders that are among them and it gives them a deeper understanding of the many issues that are all around us but not yet addressed and put a stop to. The consequences of what might happen in the future will get the students to make wiser choices and it also gives them the opportunity to at least
Michael Jackson!
!
The biggest problem in todays world is that we are blinded to see the damage that is being done to our planet earth and how it has affected the lives of many especially the lives of innocent children. Throughout this song we can see no future ahead of us without the society changing and for them to show humanity. In the song ‘Earth Song’ written and performed by the King of Pop Michael Jackson exposes the cruelness of society and how we are the reason for not living the life that was promised to us, and make us examine ourselves.! !
Through this song Michael Jackson talks about our planet earth and how we the society are destroying it and because of this what has been affected because of ‘us’. The environmental issues that Michael addressed throughout this song was deforestation and overfishing in our very own oceans which is getting rid of the species existence more and more as the days go by. One heartbreaking issue is that mentioned is innocent children dying or should we say they are being killed because of selfish people in our society just as Michael says “Did you ever stop to notice, All the children dead from war?” Doesn't this just shatter your hearts knowing because of us other people are dying? Nearly the whole song is full of rhetorical questions that strike us like an arrow to our chest piercing through every tissue and cell within us which shakes us completely because we are accountable for the state our planet is at the moment and Michael makes his point clear that we know all of this in happening and that we are choosing to ignore it all. This song should be studied by Year 12 students as it opens the eyes of the future leaders that are among them and it gives them a deeper understanding of the many issues that are all around us but not yet addressed and put a stop to. The consequences of what might happen in the future will get the students to make wiser choices and it also gives them the opportunity to at least