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This World: The Tea Trail with Simon Reeve (2014)
Such an imperfect cup of Tea form modern day slavery.
I drink a regular supply of builders tea with sugar and milk.
Terribly, I realised from this documentary that tea is still very colonial. The money is in the English supermarket's hands who receive Tea from plantations in Kenya.
The tea goes through a journey on the African continent from pickers to truckers to sea freight... that leaves a wake of deprivation, poverty, humiliation, theft of indigenous land, exploitation of the people on the land to work the fields, the trap of 'slavery' (my word) for a pittance of work and toil in a day's work. The prostitution that seeks to survive off the truckers, the utter desolation of souls who work really really hard, all day long and are given NOTHING for it, in their own country!
This trade is appalling on every step of the way. We should be ashamed. But we are not because the SUPERMARKETS ARE MAKING AND TAKING ALL THE MONEY THAT SHOUDL BE PART OF THE WORKERS ON THE LAND.
IT IS SWEATSHOP COMMERCE!
I had no idea and I am grateful to be informed....
Cornwall with Simon Reeve (2020)
Warning - these episodes contain information about reviving our desolate Cornish landscapes and seas
I live in Cornwall, so I appreciate the camera's focus here. And as a representative of concerns for. A better natural environment and concerns about ecology and economy Simon echos my own heart.
I literally cry with happiness to see that beavers are being brought back, one at a time, with celebration from the community, into a stepped bare natural environment .. knowing it will revive the life forms that are indigenous to the lands and rivers and riverbanks. I cannot express my utter joy to see and hear of these new, better, old way, changes reviving life on our planet.
Or the spawning of lobsters .. so they do replenish the seas. I hope this is for conservation, rather than for economy, because as the butcher said, people need to eat less meat and pay a higher price for it!
Big Little Journeys (2023)
\The Whole perspective
More magical than anything else is, for the first time in a nature documentary, seeing all the other animals who co-exist alongside these animals. I felt like I was literally in the canopy, forest floor, or lake.
After 40 years of watching wildlife programmes, this series has the most integrity in terms of understanding the life-span, the challenges, the other animals that live alongside them and the agenda of finding a mate, food, laying eggs before they die, or finding a way across a road.
What a revelation. A complete joy and a huge feeling of gratitude, because I will never be able to follow animals like they have been caught on camera in this series and I feel I've been shown much more about the eco-systems that exist in the world, and how they exist, and the incredible range of other animals that live around them.
I also feel incredibly grateful to hear of people using initiative to assist the wild animals to feed well and to survive. Im so utterly grateful to understand that humans are helping where they can - and are making a true effort to conserve, care for and protect the wildlife you have shown.
Thank you to everybody involved and to the great narrative pacing, and explanation of what is going on.