A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 I'm watching Horizon right now. David Attenborough is talking about the sustainability of how we live, and in what numbers. It's uncomfortable viewing, but should be compulsory for anyone with access to a telly. Anyone else watching it/watched it? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pdjmk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Darn it....I meant to sky plus this. Thank goodness for iplayer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 We watched it too. His programmes are always very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Must see TV and really quite frightening. I hope my daughter will be around in 50 years time ........What will she see? Watched half of it and will catch up the rest later today. I met him once and oh, what an absolutely charming man. I always wanted to be him and have watched all his stuff since he went running through the jungle with those ridiculously long shorts and spindly legs in Zoo Quest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..lay a little egg for me Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Extremely good programme and v thought-provoking. I thought it was fascinating how the human population had been stable for millions of years until the late 1800s when we began to be able to cure infectious disease. I hadn't realised the population explosion had been so recent. What with rising sea levels reducing the available land mass for food and living space, warming climate increasing the amount of desert, together with the bees dying so fewer foods will be available added to the burgeoning world population, the future is not looking good at the moment. I think war is the most likely consequence as people fight for resources. Still I did my bit...only had one child Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docsquid Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I thought it was a good programme, that set out the various problems quite well. It didn't set out to be alarmist but the more you thought about it, the more worried you became. What is deeply worrying is the way in which parts of the World consume resources way beyond the means of the planet to sustain them. Radical solutions were not presented, but they occurred to me after watching the programme: Things such as meat rationing (will have to take place to switch to a more vegetable based diet and increase food availability and reduce global warming), and sadly, the inevitable search for resources on other planets, including the Moon* and Mars. I think war over resources is inevitable, as people simply won't accept any kind of austerity, or think that austerity is fine as long as it applies to other people. Not a nice future to contemplate. * The Moon tehcnically isn't planet, but actually the Earth/Moon pair behave much more like a twin planet than a planet plus sattelite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
