Bugger the polar bears, this is serious

Bugger the Polar Bears — This is SeriousJuly 21 to August 15 (except Sundays and Mondays), 8pmNew Ballroom, Trades Hall, corner of Lygon & Victoria Streets, Carlton (entrance off Lygon Street)Visit www.bellaunion.com.au or phone 9775 3797 for bookings or tickets at the door.

Rod Quantock is at it again and, true to form, he pulls no punches. Rod calls his latest satirical comedy show, Bugger the Polar Bear — This is Serious, "arguably the most important show in human history".

Nothing is guaranteed with Rod's shows — not even laughter. He is the "enfant politique" of the Melbourne comedy circuit, so it comes as no surprise that his latest show deals with climate change. If you don't like politics or you count yourself in the 0.0005% of Neanderthals who are still climate sceptics, you are better off hanging out with Steve Fielding and his fundamentalist brethren praying for a world that none of us would want to live in.

Quantock believes the reality of climate change should make everybody scared shitless. He has done the calculations and put two and two together. The answer he comes up with is bushfires, droughts, extinctions of species and the potential loss of 7 billion people within 50 years, if no drastic action is taken on the emissions front.

Sound scary and not really very funny? That's precisely Quantock's strength: making you laugh at the consequences of the actions of our politicians and the greenhouse mafia — actions he believes they should be publicly executed for, right outside the Sydney Opera house and today if need be.

Quantock doesn't leave it there; he brings in the polar bears and becomes seriously sacrilegious. "I hate polar bears", he said. "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!

"Victoria will be a smoldering, 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."

If you are not afraid to be scared shitless, and want to publicly prove you are not related to Steve Fielding, then Bugger the Polar Bears — This is Serious might be just the show for you.

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