Carte Blanche investigates: The War on Climate Change this Sunday on M-Net & M-Net HD [101], 17 November 2019 at 19:00 & again on M-Net Plus 1 [901] at 20:00.
John Webb: “I’m worried about climate change. What sensible person isn’t, right? I’m also a meat-eater and, given animal agriculture’s contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, that makes me disingenuous. Or, does it? The science is sometimes confusing and often misrepresented by vested interests on both sides of the climate change debate. Ignoring the welfare issue, what is the morality of meat in the context of a warming planet?”
EMPOWERING > ENLIGHTENING
Hotting Up in the Kalahari
The effects of climate change are no longer a problem of the future: they’re apparent every day in our changing weather patterns and more frequent extreme weather events. In the Kalahari, an environment of extreme temperatures and scarce rainfall, biodiversity research asks how species will react as temperatures rise at more than double the global average. Dwindling food and water resources push some to the edge of survival and paint a grim picture of Southern Africa’s future with climate change if we don’t take important steps now.
Producer: Laura Byrne
Presenter: Derek Watts
Could the End of Meat Save the Planet?
Is it time to stop eating meat to help save the planet? Well that’s the line of argument that some climate change activists are pushing in a bid to pull the earth back from the brink. To feed the world’s meat addiction, animal agriculture contributes to deforestation, as well as methane and carbon di-oxide pollution. Now in the United Kingdom, vegan protesters have joined the ranks of the Extinction Rebellion movement, to demand that government takes action to avoid a climate tipping point. But meat and dairy producers are fighting back. So could radical lifestyle changes really make a difference? Carte Blanche investigates.
Producer: John Webb
Presenter: John Webb
UNDERCOVER > ACTION
“Dr Drive-Thru”
He’s been blacklisted from a medical aid scheme, his offices raided by the Hawks and criminally charged, but it seems one doctor in Gauteng has a chronic disregard for the law. From issuing sick notes to healthy patients to illegally dispensing schedule five medication without a prescription or ever meeting the clients – this medical practitioner has become a one-stop shop for illegally accessing prescription pharmaceutical drugs. Carte Blanche goes undercover.
Producer: Nicky Troll
Presenter: Devi Sankaree Govender
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Mpumalanga Murder Mystery
To protect and serve – that’s the pledge that police officers make to the public – so why did a police captain from Emalahleni become the target of several allegations of rape and sexual assault? As a devastated family tries to understand why their 32-year-old daughter jumped to her death from a moving vehicle while in the company of the then captain early this year, Carte Blanche investigates the case and allegations against the now-suspended officer that have shocked Mpumalanga.
Producer: Michael Duffet
Presenter: Masa Kekana
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