People Will Be Singing That Song From From The White Stripes "Elephant" Album Long After Elephants...

People Will Be Singing That Song From From The White Stripes “Elephant” Album Long After Elephants Themselves Are Extinct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_QbCY9gQJ4

The White Stripes’ greatest album, Elephant, came out ten years ago this week. You probably know about how the first song, “Seven Nation Army,” has become a ubiquitous (and sort of fascistic!) chant in sports stadiums across the country. It is a great song. A “classic” for sure. A better rock song has not been written since. What has happened since is that 62 percent of the world’s forest elephants, a distinct species native to central Africa, have been killed for the booming ivory trade in China and Japan. This is one of the more depressing things we can learn from the running Scientific American feature “Extinction Countdown.” It will be such a bummer when we have to tell our grandkids about these amazing animals that used to be such a big part of our thinking about the world — “Elephants were the biggest land mammals on earth! They used to live in the wild instead of just at the clone farms!” Sigh.