Category: Documentaries
What’s Behind the Balcombe Fracking Protest?
| September 26, 2013 | Posted by Dan Clayton under Documentaries |
In the run up to forthcoming Salon debates in Leeds and Manchester on fracking, I decided to go down to Balcombe and find out what inspired the protestors to oppose this drilling technique. I was expecting climate change to loom large in interviews, but I was surprised to discover this particular concern was barely mentioned.…
Review: Supersized Earth
| December 8, 2012 | Posted by Dan Clayton under Documentaries |
In BBC4′s fantastic documentary Supersized Earth we are taken on a journey around the world to see how humanity is transforming the planet. Episode 3 featured, amongst other things, the world’s largest cattle ranches (Brazil), the world’s biggest opencast mine (USA), and the construction of the earth’s largest man-made river (China). The Chinese are building…