dumped
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:30 am
I saw this TV programme advertised last night. Didn't watch it so perhaps I am spouting incorrectly. I had better things to do.
The premise is that a bunch of individuals build accommodation and live on a landfill site from the stuff that is discarded.
Now, my problem with this is that it is advertised as the ultimate eco challenge.
1. Surely that is to not fill the landfill in the first place.
2. This would be better billed as a post apocalyptic survival series. Preferably with mutant monsters trying to kill contestants etc...
3. It also seems to imply that to be eco sensitive, personal hygeine goes straight out of the window.
I don't see why not washing and hanging around in refuse improves the world. See the slums of Sao Paolo for further examples. Most cultures from the jungles to the Romans, Greeks, Vikings etc.understood infection risks from disposal sites. I.e. put the garbage outside the walls and downstream from the drinking water.
I think this may be the sort of programme that clouds the eco/ self sufficiency/ green issue for the sake of ratings.
Along with this i'm sure the producers of Big Brother have never read Orwell.......
The premise is that a bunch of individuals build accommodation and live on a landfill site from the stuff that is discarded.
Now, my problem with this is that it is advertised as the ultimate eco challenge.
1. Surely that is to not fill the landfill in the first place.
2. This would be better billed as a post apocalyptic survival series. Preferably with mutant monsters trying to kill contestants etc...
3. It also seems to imply that to be eco sensitive, personal hygeine goes straight out of the window.
I don't see why not washing and hanging around in refuse improves the world. See the slums of Sao Paolo for further examples. Most cultures from the jungles to the Romans, Greeks, Vikings etc.understood infection risks from disposal sites. I.e. put the garbage outside the walls and downstream from the drinking water.
I think this may be the sort of programme that clouds the eco/ self sufficiency/ green issue for the sake of ratings.
Along with this i'm sure the producers of Big Brother have never read Orwell.......
