The consequences of local weather change had been already being felt way back to the Nineteen Sixties, however scientists who linked fossil fuels with local weather change had been labelled “prophets of doom”.

This episode traces the trajectory of local weather change over the previous 60 years and examines how and why – regardless of the stark warnings – we didn’t halt the local weather disaster we’re at present experiencing, and why it seems politics and science are at odds in terms of this challenge.

Years of propaganda and greed from oil firms created a world the place revenue trumped the well being of the planet, the results of which are actually being felt as we speak.

Misplaced Futures explores the consequences of company greed. In Louisiana, we see firsthand how small coastal cities will succumb to the devastating results of years of drilling from oil firms, and what this implies for a technology which has had little to do with inflicting the devastation however is pressured to stay with its penalties.