Stating the obvious, on stage

Professor Stephen Emmott, director of Microsoft's lab in Cambridge, UK, believes as I do that the size of the human population is the root cause of the many looming challenges of this century. To dramatize the point, Emmott is staging a performance on the theme at a London theater.

The various reviews don't really say what Emmott does while onstage, other than that he uses crutches because he's hurt his back. But in my book, if it gets attention on this most important of all problems, he's doing something worthwhile.