#icymi 🎹 Aïda Lahlou on Climate Chage

Well, I think the root cause of climate change is that we've lost our feeling of being connected to nature. Because if people were really— still had this connection, there's no way they would hurt the natural world in the way that we do. And the problem now is they don't understand that they're actually hurting themselves. For me, climate change is a total— it's a psychological issue to start with. It's the fact that we've completely we've become alienated from a part of ourselves, which is nature. And that then manifests itself in, you know, all the forms of destruction that we see on an economic scale with exploitation, on an ecological scale with, you know, deforestation, habitat loss, exploitation of animals, like industrial farming, all of that. And just the way we eat, the way we travel. I mean, for me, it stems from the basic sort of lost connection between us and nature. So yeah, there is a lot of nature themes in the album, which also connects to spirituality because, as I said, for me, climate change is first and foremost a, let's say, spiritual or psychological problem.

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