Science says:
I am big
I am broad
I am expansive

Art says
I am your heart
How you live
I am reactive

Science says
You need patience
The will to learn,
Maybe even a degree

Art says
I am a shapeshifter
Tell me what you need,
And that, I'll be

Science says
Well, yeah I am all of that too
I am how you get from a to b
I am the result of what you choose

Art says
I change lives

Science shouts
So have I,
I can be both the reason you live
and the reason you die.

See science has impacted everything
It knows the who’s, what’s, and whens
art has changed the face of the world,
where you go, what you do, how you spend

They both know what it means to be needed but not valued
For people to congratulate them at their destination
But not check in during the journey.
They both carry life, uphill, on their backs
and yet still have to beg for a sustainable rucksack.

They have seen greed hold progress ransom.
With release not offered because of need,
But because the profit margin has increased.
and students studying not based on talent alone
but because they have the means.

You can see,
look how much money goes into arms,
and how little into conservation.
How we’d rather wage war,
then give a decent wage to art and science past graduation.
We have seen the effects when communities and
scientists work together,
from flashing lights to ward off lions
to the Elephants and Bees in Kenya.

The progress of science, art, technology
is never the idea of just one person,
it is a mixing pot of backgrounds and
cultures, all of whom are determined.

The population of this planet has quadrupled
in the last 100 years,
so issues, conflicts and questions that haven’t
been asked before, are starting to appear.
More people has meant less animals
both trying to co-exist
both trying to find food and water
both trying to protect their land and kids.

Using citizen science and the knowledge of the locals
we can develop infrastructure for coexistence using the tools at our disposal
but without investment, sometimes that means hunting,
for both the animals and the humans,
both doing what they can
to live off the changing lands
of which they used to be fluent
and 4 and a half thousand miles away,
we stand in town centres with catchy chants and placards
demonising a way of life we don't live,
as if the right to be enraged, is ours.

In Britain, most children can identify a giraffe before a magpie
as if you can spot one outside the shop,
which means the needs of local animals are overlooked and forgot
and we do things like, shut schools in London,
For a “poisonous spider” that actually hasn't killed anyone.
False Widow Spiders have been in the UK for around
100 years, and rather than a quick google search,
we believed the tabloids, rather than consult
someone who's dedicated their life to research.

Science and Art work in the same way,
people want the product without investing,
they want the life changing discovery, the knowledge
with no understanding of how we get there.

The local fishermen in Kollam now collect the plastic in their nets,
which they now use and reproduce
to fill the potholes in the roads
from the plastic they’ve compressed
and in some places
scientists have fitted seabirds
with surveillance to suppress
the illegal fishing in our oceans
because the birds follow the nets (mess)

See science has impacted everything
It knows the who’s, what’s, and whens
and when it works with communities,
it best shapes the world we are in.
Learning and sharing knowledge,
at the same time means we are all part of the process
enabling communities to broaden their scientific literacy
allows scientists to research things they didn’t notice.

and science says:
I am big
I am broad
I am expansive
I am your heart
How you live
I am reactive
You need patience
The will to learn,
Maybe even a degree

Science says
I am a shapeshifter
Tell me what you need,
And that, I'll be