Friday, December 2, from 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m (yes, you read it right), the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County presents "Different Lands, Global Issues" with Pulitzer Prize-winning, pro-nuclear, corporate friendly author Jared Diamond in a roundtable discussion with (genius) theater and opera director (most recently of John Adams' Doctor Atomic, which I am desparate to see) Peter Sellars (the link goes to Mark Swed's beautiful piece on Sellars in the Los Angeles Times). They'll be joined by the less famous but no less formidable Pacific Institute co-founder and world water expert Peter Gleick and Australian climate-change and sustainability scholar Dr. John Merson. The four will discuss energy, climate change and ecological survival. 
The discussion is conjunction with the museum's "Collapse?" exhibit (they continually have to remind me to keep that question mark on), which I had issues with (related to said question mark -- too much equanimity, even for me). But have I ever looked so forward to an evening's discussion on energy, climate change and ecological survival as I look forward to this? Have I ever looked forward to any discussion on energy, climate change and ecological survival?
No. But this one will rock.
These guys can talk, but not all the way until 1 a.m., so there'll be music later by Kinnara Taiko (loud drums) and Rocky Dawuni (Reggae from Ghana -- in the African Mammals Hall!) and The Rebirth (soul to dance to).
Out-of-towners: You still have time to buy flights seven days in advance.
(Photo credit on Diamond: Max Gerber)
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