Science does not cry about human expansion out of control. Now, a teacher will proclaim its dangers on the stage Stephen Emmott is a professor of computer science at Oxford University and Director of the Laboratoire d'Informatique Microsoft in Cambridge. His laboratory is dedicated to research new techniques and ideas for solving major scientific problems. One of his research groups in small things, including the composition of living cells, including immunologists and neurologists. Another group focused on global issues, including the carbon cycle and consists of marine biologists and ecologists plants.

Emmott, 52, is also the star of the theater production coming solo 10000000000

, a collaboration between him and the distinguished director Katie Mitchell , whose work has included the past

a woman killed with kindness

at the National Theatre. The show opens at the Royal Court in London this week and focuses on the state of our planet will be when its population reached 10 million.

So what's the job?

not really a game I do not know how to describe it. I've been calling it so far. Indeed, the whole - on the floor of the theater at the Royal Court - is a recreation of my office, a full dump of documents and stacks of old magazines. And there is a whiteboard, I will be very attractive. You could call it a speech about the greatest experience ever created by man.

We made a big fuss about the discovery of the Higgs boson. Described as the largest scientific experiment of all time. But this is nothing compared to humanity experiment is conducted on our own planet. Our numbers are set to reach $ 10 million - a very conservative estimate - by the end of the century. These figures are the destruction of ecosystems swelling, pollution of the atmosphere and the sea, increased temperatures and melting ice caps and have no idea what the result. It's an experience.

How to choose the theme of the human population?

is like nothing else I've done before and had a lot of consideration. My first scripts were too formal. It was as if I had been writing for a magazine. I had to find a more natural voice. I'm not learning lines, however, only a set of points I want to do as evidenced by progress. Katie and enter the type of rhythm that the program needs. I want to change people's ideas about the impact they have on the planet. We need changes in policy. What we did is unfortunate. Durban, Kyoto, Copenhagen - have all been failures

We are in a desperate situation and I do not think people realize that. Many believe that we will find a smart solution for the future, as the construction of sunscreens in space to keep our planet cool. I will tell the public that these ideas are very suspicious. A radical change of behavior is what is really needed. Our problems are not only those related to carbon emissions. There are so many other things - habitat destruction overfishing, and eradication of species - we must change. Either that, or sit and do nothing, in fact, is the position we have taken so far. Science has been too long hidden behind the warnings. We have to leave the platform, although I suspect it is too late. In fact, the show will end with my admission to the audience that I think we're done.