Tom Lehrer Sings Pollution 1967

This song and film came just a few years before the first Earth Day in 1970. Tom Lehrer is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He known for the pithy, humorous songs that he recorded in the 1950s and 1960s. His work often parodies popular song forms, such as in “The Elements“, where he sets the names of the chemical elements to the tune of the “Major-General’s Song“ from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance. Lehrer’s earlier work typically dealt with non-topical sub