The Wellcome Trust, which received £103,600,000 from taxpayers between 2021-25, has commissioned a song “about the impacts of extreme heat on human health”.
The song, titled “Cool Me Down”, was produced by the American hip-hop duo EARTHGANG.
On Instagram, Wellcome Trust wrote:
We need to communicate in different ways to reach new audiences. Music can inspire hope and drive climate action.
That’s why Wellcome has partnered with Sounds Right and commissioned Grammy-nominated hip-hop duo EARTHGANG (@earthgang) to create the track “Cool me down” about the impacts of extreme heat on human health, launched with UN Live yesterday for Climate Week NYC.
Listen to the track “Cool me down” by EARTHGANG now, on your streaming platform of choice.
Below EARTHGANG are pictured with Alan Dangour (far left), Director of Climate and Health at Wellcome, who was recently posted to NYC for Climate Week. Nice work if you can get it!
You can listen to Cool Me Down here…
… as well as see it being made in the studio:
Unfortunately this is not the first time the Wellcome Trust has tried to get climate messaging into the arts.
It also funds Climate Spring, an organisation that tries to embed climate narratives/ storylines into TV shows. You can read in detail about its work below:
What a load of nonsense.
The Wellcome Trust is simply demonstrating why it should lose all taxpayer funding.
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