Watch Neil Young and Stephen Colbert's amusing point-counterpoint duet about saving the Earth

Watch Neil Young and Stephen Colbert&#039;s amusing point-counterpoint duet about saving the Earth

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last updated 8 January 2015

The last time Neil Young was on The Colbert Report, the singer proposed impeaching then-President George W. Bush over the war in Iraq. This time, Young tells Stephen Colbert that the U.S. should impeach President Obama over fracking. Colbert, the conservative pundit character, isn't opposed to drilling, whatever the environmental cost, and so the two hash out their differences in the only way that makes sense: a duet.

"Who's gonna stand up and save the Earth?" Young sings. Colbert then takes his verses. Here's one: "What if the problem isn't really real? I'm heavily invested, no thanks, Neil. The problem will probably fix itself, if we just drill the continental shelf." If only every political debate had a guitar solo. Watch "Neil Young and Crazy Host" sing out their arguments below. --Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.

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