A sign of our times is how melodrama is commonly used to add a heavy dose of histrionic exaggeration to anything which appears to stand in the way of a woke agenda. As reality itself stands in the way of a woke agenda, that can be a problem even for accomplished dramatists. Or journalists as we used to call them.
For example, here we have two gripping melodramas - The Ripped Up Rulebook and A Secret Weapon.
Boris Johnson rips up climate rulebook as he moves to replace Russian supply of oil and gas
Pressure to guarantee the country's energy security means Boris Johnson is putting aside a key commitment to the planet.
Scientists have discovered a microscopic ocean predator with a taste for carbon
The single-celled microbe, which is capable of photosynthesis as well as hunting and eating prey, could be "a secret weapon in battle against climate change".
By gum. A horribly ripped up rulebook, a key commitment to the planet devilishly done to death and a secret weapon in the battle for the planet. What more could we wish for apart from boring old veracity?
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There's also "the clock is ticking", and "a ticking time-bomb". Both essential ingredients of any decent melodrama.
Sam Vega: The blue wire! It's always the blue wire!
And an imminent "tipping point".
Fracking Hell!
"What more could we wish for ...?"
Punch and Judy?
Sam - and there are so many ticking bombs we ought to be used to them by now. But if we can't defuse them with common sense we have yet another ticking bomb.
Jannie - I thought it was the red wire...
dearieme - evil sceptics making Princess Gaia walk the plank could precipitate a tipping point.
Scrobs - that where we need to send Greens.
James - or Judy and Judy as it probably is now.
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