I am sure that many of us have our own ideas of a particular argument or situation which might prise open the US President’s weird and insular view of the World. He’s
currently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, telling us there’s nothing to worry about, and were he to be confined briefly to solitary confinement, this edition of Horizon, presented by Chris Packham, is definitely the programme I’d most like him to see. It’s focus on population growth and on the destruction of habitat to create farmland to feed our growing global population,is not new, but this presentation of the argument is brilliantly stark, with some excellent interviews and amazing location shooting – the housing built on a lagoon outside Lagos being a particularly special example of human ingenuity in the face of adversity. The programme is marked by Chris Packham’s quirky character and finds him reflecting at one point on the 10 vacuum cleaners he owns, which unsurprisingly he is forced to conclude, is an unjustifiable indulgence.

If you haven’t seen this programme it is definitely worth a look.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dl6q