2. Filthy Bags of Excrement (SYSTEMS THINKING)

In the second episode of the series, we explore our relationship with nature.

It opens with the story of Fritz Harber - a German chemist and a man of contradictions. Accused of war crimes and nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in the same year, Harber gave the world two opposing inventions: fertiliser, allowing us to feed the growing populations of the world, and chlorine gas, which has wreaked devastation.

Through this story, we discover how the agricultural industry became intertwined with the arms industry in the early 21st Century, and how this marrying of production and destruction was perhaps not a freak aberration, but rather the logical consequence of Western philosophy and science...

...and we begin to understand that, perhaps, there is a different way to interact with the world around us.

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