Some Environmental Documentaries You Must Hear About

By Alyce Powell


There are a lot of documentaries out there that people get to hear about and watch on a daily basis but then there are those that you simply have to see. These environmental documentaries are those that affect parts of the environment that you actually care about. Given the fact that people can only stay healthy when they take good care of the environment, these documentaries ensure that you know where you go wrong so that you make the necessary changes.

There is a documentary that unveils how the Japanese engage in mass killing of dolphins. It goes ahead to explain that the dolphins form an important part of the sea food chain therefore if there populations are reduced the ocean can be greatly affected. On the other hand, it goes ahead to explain that it is risky to eat these when their meat is poisoned with mercury as a result of pollution.

Sustainable development is considered to be the main agenda by Who Killed the Electric Car. This tries to inquire on how the ideas behind designing a car that will rely on electricity for its source of energy quickly vanished. This was considered to be a development that is sustainable since it did not rely on a non renewable resource. The fact that this was completely forgotten inspired this documentary.

Water is another resource that is seen as the likely cause of war in the future. Just like people value oil, there shall come a time when water will be treated the same way. In this documentary, water is seen as a bomb that is just waiting to explode. Among the people who will engage in the fight are the big corporations and other big nations.

The food that is produced by industries is also viewed as contaminated and the operations run by the companies exploitative. These operations exploit both the animals that offer services and the employees that work in the company. The Food Inc views the cheap food that is produced by these companies to come at a price; affecting the health of the users.

The Gasland documentary on the other hand goes ahead to explain how natural gas companies are offering people money so that they lease their land in drilling for gas. It explains how this has affected the people staying around the areas of Colorado, Wyoming, Texas and Utah among many other places. The drilling has also affected the quality of water that people use hence affecting the environment.

It is therefore very important that people take good care of their environment so that they stay safe from any health complications. By doing so they will be taking good care of themselves too.

In summary, all these environmental documentaries play the role of giving you this general information so that you get a wider scope of how the actions of people affect the environment. They also state that health and the environment is the same thing and what affects one is directly related to the other.




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