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Rod Quantock ... “If we continue to fiddle at the emissions fringe, Victoria will be a smouldering, waterless wasteland."

POSTED: 19 JUNE 2009

Rod Quantock takes a seriously funny look at climate change*

“I hate polar bears,” says Rod Quantock. “Why is climate change always about polar bears? Who’s their agent? It’s not like they’re the only ones who’ll be extinct. Chances are we will all be extinct!”

In his new show, Bugger the Polar Bears, This Is Serious, Rod presents the only show in town: Climate change — it’s real, it’s happening now and it’s no joke, but as you’d expect Rod makes it hilarious.

“If climate change doesn’t scare you shitless, then you just don’t get the science,” says Rod.

Fortunately Rod does get the science and as always, he’s done his homework. He’s talked to leading climate scientists. He’s read the reports and watched the documentaries and joined the dots: worst fires, longest droughts, most devastating storms, mass extinctions, ice caps melting, polar bears drowning … but, hey! Bugger the polar bears, this is serious.

“If we continue to fiddle at the emissions fringe, Victoria will be a smouldering, waterless wasteland. No more Boxing Day Test or Spring Racing Carnival. Further north, monsoons, disease, storms and sea-level rise will devastate coastlines and that AFL team on the Gold Coast will be exposed as the short-sighted folly it always was,” Rod said.

“Optimists predict only two billion people will left by the end of the century, down from a peak of nine billion in 2050. That’s 7,000,000,000 people gone in 50 years!”

If you don’t want to be one of them then it’s time to take climate sides! And if you don’t know what side to be on you owe it to yourself to see Bugger the Polar Bears, This Is Serious ... arguably the most important show in what’s left of human history.

Rod Quantock is the undoubted pioneer of stand-up comedy in Australia, with more than 40 years under his comedy belt. Rod’s shows are consistent box office hits at both the Adelaide Fringe and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Bugger the Polar Bears, This Is Serious will show at the Trades Hall, Carlton, Melbourne, from 21 July to 15 August. Bookings through www.bellaunion.com.au

*Based on media release issued by TS Publicity.