An Inconvenient Tragedy

Some may recall that La Scala in Milan is preparing an opera of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth for the 2011 opera season. It's not everyone who can turn a pop science phenomenon into an opera, and indeed, I must admit that I rather doubt that La Scala will manage to produce something that people want to see on its own terms -- as opposed to something one wants to see for the righteous slow that it gives one to know that, having donned one's finest clothes and driven over to La Scala in one's Maserati, one may sit back in one's box and gaze at the other worthies around the opera house in the firm belief that one is far above those poor, ignorant "global warming deniers".

Ah, but though he may not live in Milan, there is one out there who can craft a three act opera based on the Al Gore oeuvre, and that man is Bob The Ape. He presents a libretto for An Inconvenient Tragedy in three acts. If you have any doubt whether you should go read all of it, and believe me that you should, merely consult the cast list:

Cast of Characters

.		.
.	Prometheus	.	a Titan
.	Algor	.	an ambitious Spirit
.	Carbona Dioxida	.	an airy Spirit
.	Khi-Oto	.	an Oriental Sorcerer, servant to Algor
.	Skeptica	.	a Seeress
.	Consensus	.	a Judge
.	Helios	.	God of the Sun
.	Oscar	.	a Golem
.	Three Citizens
.	A Troupe of Polar Bears
.	A Figure representing Unnatural Heat

MrsDarwin and I have been going about the house saying "Oscar, a golem" to each other since last night. And so, following upon St. Augustine, I must enjoin you to take and read.