This film explores the evolution of our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of wild rivers.
Produced by Matt Stoecker & Travis Rummel
This film explores the evolution of our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of wild rivers.
Produced by Matt Stoecker & Travis Rummel
As some countries begin to understand the non-delivery of desired power etc and the environmental nightmares created by big dams, others seem to be in greater and greater thrall to them, if only as morale-shoring symbols of much-needed development and a better, brighter future. Then there are the Macho Alpha Male Politician and Neanderthal Me Can Do (Grunt!) Constructor Crews that look to personally benefit from them… BBC Radio 3 broadcast page linked below. Click “More / Further Details” button for more about the 14 minute broadcast. If you’re not in Britain and know your by-the-backdoor “Not available in your country” downloading ways and means, you might even be able to download it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kn8t
PS – 45 minutes more from the same man about dams and rivers on BBC Radio 3 in May 2019.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07964zq