Big yellow taxi what is the song about

In other words, it is quite poisonous, and when the public became aware of its widespread usage they were resultantly alarmed. It is only during the fourth verse of this song when, if only for a brief moment, its subject changes.

There have been two interpretations of said automobile. One is that it actually points to the police cars of the Toronto police department, which at the time were similarly colored Mitchell herself is from Canada.

So Joni considered that romance-related event pressing enough to include it in a song which otherwise has nothing to do with her personal life. For the most part, what she is actually doing throughout is calling on the general audience to recognize and to some extent act against the environmental degradation she sees going on all around.

The listed release date of the track is on 1 January It actually came out prior to the album itself and subsequently served as its lead and only single.

And the labels behind the track are Reprise Records and Warner Bros. Originally this song reached an impressive 11 th place on the UK Singles Chart. Shlivewitz on Oct at GMT-5 :. I am glad she is feeling better these days.

DDT is still used in huge quantities to fight malaria, typically by spraying it on walls of bedrooms. This is of concern to arctic nations, because DDT makes its way to high latitudes and concentrates in the body fat of top predators such as polar bears.

However, arctic nations tolerate the use of DDT in tropical countries because of its anti-malarial effectiveness. The real reason the fight against malaria faltered was for lack of funding and also increasing resistance of mosquitos and the malaria organism to the main lines of attack.

Mosquito nets are one of the most effective defences against malaria, but they still aren't available to all people in malaria areas--nothing to do with Rachel Carson. If you really cared about the poor people of the world, you'd be exercised about malnutrition economic imbalances and infant gut infections made worse by ruthless marketing of infant formula in the third world rather than a purely imaginary ban on DDT.

It's unfortunate that, like the Western majority, you've fallen prey to the anti-human myths about DDT, originating from the singular "authority" Rachel Carson. I call the myths about DDT "anti-human" because environmental policies such as the policy of banning effective insecticides like DDT, which reduces malaria, actually constitute the oppression and murder of many of the world's poor. Environmental policies such as this actually have one New Age goal: the eradication of scores of human beings in the name of "saving the planet.

For example: Alexander King, founder of the Club of Rome, once said about DDT, "In Guyana, within two years it had almost eliminated malaria, but at the same time the birth rate had doubled. So my chief quarrel with DDT in hindsight is that it has greatly added to the population problem.

Carson claimed that DDT was threatening many avian species with imminent extinction. Her evidence for this, however, was anecdotal and unfounded. In her chapter 'Elixirs of Death,' Carson wrote that synthetic insecticides can affect the human body in 'sinister and often deadly ways,' so that cumulatively, the 'threat of chronic poisoning and degenerative changes of the liver and other organs is very real.

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I'm a man so I take their word for it. It was too painful even for a great artist like Joni Mitchell to address directly so it's hidden in the lyrics. The big yellow taxi took away her little girl, not her old man. I think anyone who gives up a child knowing you'll never know another thing about her would feel like they don't know what they got 'till it's gone. Joni was tortured by this feeling and it came out in a great song.

I'm adopted and I reunited with my maternal birth family after about 37 years. My biological mother died when I was 3. That was about two years after she gave me up.

She was run over by a truck. I give Joni Mitchell all the credit in the world for pressing on a giving the big yellow taxi story a new, happier final verse. This song always makes me feel like crying because I secretly know what it's really about. I would like to know what is the source of this information? General Comment this song is about living every moment to its fullest and appreciating everything General Comment My favourite line is: "They took all the trees Put 'em in a tree museum And they charged all the people A dollar and a half just to see 'em!

Joni, you're a genius!!! Okay everyone, there's a KEY to understanding part of this song that you will not get unless you lived in Toronto, Canada like I did back in the 's. The conclusion? Her boyfriend didn't just take off