Speech rebellious at the UN, crossing the Atlantic by boat, Greta Thunberg tries by all means to make the voice of reason heard in matters of ecology. The 17-year-old Swedish woman who has become a figurehead in the fight against global warming is once again trying to get her message out. This time, through music. For its latest clip, Retrograde , the rock group Pearl Jam has decided to call on the young activist to play a psychic revealing a very dark future for the planet.
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The video with a “watercolor effect” opens onto a rainy decor at night. A red sun has replaced the moon. A car approaches a group of shops and the man inside the vehicle pushes the door of a clairvoyance cabinet where a crystal ball awaits him. He approaches it and begins to see the future. Melting ice, landslides, New York and Paris underwater, he can't believe his eyes.
In the clip, the crystal ball shows a Paris drowned underwater. YouTube / Pearl Jam screenshot
The clairvoyant, whose hands can still only be seen, then distributes the cards using a deck of tarots on which the five members of Pearl Jam are represented in the midst of a crowd of strangers. Suddenly a giant wave sweeps away all the cards, and voila that in the darkness, Greta Thunberg's face appears and fixes the man. Natural disasters follow one another, polar bears walk in the sand and kangaroos try to flee the fire. Greta the clairvoyant and the man look at each other one last time before the final shot outside, where a light panel says "It's gonna take much more than ordinary love to lift this up ...". S ilo "It will take more than just love to fix it" .
Pearl Jam - Retrograde
