11-year-old phenom drummer rocks out in new climate protest song

Nandi Bushell can't vote. But she can demonstrate...loudly.
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She's battled Dave Grohl at drums. Now, she's blasting out scintillating drum fills in a new climate change protest song called "The Children Will Rise Up!"

The 11-year-old phenom drummer and musician Nandi Bushell collaborated with Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello and his son Roman Morello in the music video. Greta Thunberg and Jack Black make cosmic appearances, too.

"I cannot vote, but I can raise awareness and protest for climate change," Bushell says in the video.

Earth is rapidly warming. Major ice sheets have destabilized, Greenland is melting, droughts are worsening, and storms are creating more extreme, historic torrents of rain and flooding.

The potent heat-trapping greenhouse gas CO2 is now at its highest atmospheric levels in some 3 million years.

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Mark Kaufman
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Mark was the science editor at Mashable. After working as a ranger with the National Park Service, he started a reporting career after seeing the extraordinary value in educating people about the happenings on Earth, and beyond.

He's descended 2,500 feet into the ocean depths in search of the sixgill shark, ventured into the halls of top R&D laboratories, and interviewed some of the most fascinating scientists in the world.


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