[nemo]

SVT1 (Swedish public service television) is halfway through airing a very impressive four part series called "planeten" (the planet). It has a very modern look, and consists mostly of soundbites by Very Smart People mixed with visually stunning photo montages set to music. Subtitles in Swedish, 90% or so is spoken English.

Production company promotional material in English (html page, links to pdf)

Anyone interested in watching this could easily download a small torrent file by searching for "planeten" at the Pirate Bay, open it with a bittorrent client and once downloaded play the 350 MB video files in a superb freeware media player

The legality of this sort of behaviour is something of a gray area, but as far as I know, public service TV companies (as the name indicates) are not in the business of suing people for copyright violations (videos can also be found at svt.se, where they play in tiny little windows that don't do the material justice at all)

[Arkwright]

Thanks for the link, it was great documentry. Now I need to find the rest of it. I noticed finnish YLE was noted in the credits, so I assume it'll be shown in Finland later.

Almost everything on them is in English, (though, getting trouch occasional Indian or Scot accent was quite demanding) Rreally worth of watching for everyone, though some points are very obivious for people of this board.

[nemo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Arkwright', 'i')t was great documentry

[skiwi]

Thanks mate. It was worth watching.

[nemo]

I just watched episode 4, and it's by far the best one yet. Peak Oil is finally mentioned in no uncertain terms, and the planet's possible future development models are categorized as
1: Star Trek
2: Mad Max
3: Ecotopia
4: Big Government
The discussion is kept rather frank, but I can't help to feel that the doomerism was toned down just a bit - I realize why that is, but I don't necessarily agree with it.
With the exception of a Dutch pig tower enthusiast, this film kept me on the edge of my seat for the full hour. It touches so many profoundly important issues in such an honest way, I can't recommend it enough.

[Schneider]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nemo', 'I') just watched episode 4, and it's by far the best one yet. Peak Oil is finally mentioned in no uncertain terms, and the planet's possible future development models are categorized as
1: Star Trek
2: Mad Max
3: Ecotopia
4: Big Government
The discussion is kept rather frank, but I can't help to feel that the doomerism was toned down just a bit - I realize why that is, but I don't necessarily agree with it.
With the exception of a Dutch pig tower enthusiast, this film kept me on the edge of my seat for the full hour. It touches so many profoundly important issues in such an honest way, I can't recommend it enough.