My wife and I have recently become hooked on the TV series "Lost". We rented all the DVDs from seasons 1 and 2, and then watched this season's episodes on the internet.
If you know the series, you know that it's about a bunch of people marooned on a tropical island after a plane crash. And that the island has weird stuff going on, almost like it's alive.
After watching "An Inconvenient Truth" the other day (the Al Gore movie about global warming), I'm starting to wonder whether this big island we all share called Earth isn't trying to tell us something. Tsunamis, floods, droughts, heat waves, polar ice melting - like it's trying to send signals.
It reminded me of a concept album called "Consequences" done back in 1977 I think, by two guys from the English group 10cc - Lol Creme and Kevin Godley. It was a three-disc set with a story woven through the music and sound effects. The story was about how after centuries of abuse, the Earth was rising up and turning against mankind, resulting in earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes, and all other types of severe weather and geological phenomena.
The story's not specific about the nature of the abuse. And the solution that comes at the climax of the album (a carefully crafted and performed opus composed by the only character in the story who knows what's going on, which placates the Earth and restores tranquility) seems a trifle simplistic for the problems we face today.
Still, I'm struck by how visionary Godley and Creme were back then. If you want to learn more about the album, a former BBC producer named Giles Booth has an entire website dedicated to it here.
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