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| | | Costing the Earth tells stories which touch all our lives, looking at man's effect on the environment and at how the environment reacts. It questions accepted truths, challenges the people in charge and reports on progress towards improving the world we live in. | | | | | LISTEN AGAIN Ìý30 min | | | |
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'I really enjoy working on Costing the Earth, because it has the time to get its teeth into a subject and the resources to look at it critically. I hope it manages to say something new about most of the subjects it covers.'
Alex Kirby
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Can You Believe It?
London will soon be a coastal resort, organic food will poison your children and the world’s about to be over-run by an army of tiny robots intent on entering your brain and bending you to their evil will. The British media loves a good environmental scare story. In this week’s ‘Costing the Earth’ Alex Kirby asks if the environment can ever get the press treatment it deserves.
He looks back on three big environmental stories of the past decade concerning the food we eat, the advance of technology and the purity of our oceans and finds out if press coverage helped or damaged our health and our environment.
Shell’s attempt to dump the Brent Spar oil-rig in the Atlantic Ocean was thwarted by a stunning Greenpeace media campaign but did the outcome really help keep our oceans clean?
Organic food came under assault last year from suggestions that its reliance on manure could hugely increase the risk of food poisoning. The story was nonsense but where did it come from and how did it reach the front page of the Daily Mail?
And what of nanotechnology, a branch of science few of us had heard of until Prince Charles apparently issued warnings of an army of killer mini-robots. Did the furore stop a promising new technology in its tracks or was the environment really threatened by the arrogance of scientists?
Alex Kirby finds the answers in ‘Costing the Earth'. | | |
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