Solutions for a life without oil

For the third edition, Capital Terre shows viewers why and how our quest for oil has major ecological consequences all over the planet and the solutions that already exist for meeting the challenges of a world without oil.

Fourteen billion litres per day: that is the staggering level of world oil consumption. From transportation to heating, plastics, detergents, fertiliser and medicine, oil is found everywhere, in all the machinery of daily life. And with ongoing economic and technological progress are a steadily increasing number of human beings who are hungry to consume even more oil.

This unquenchable thirst for “black gold” nevertheless clashes with a triple reality: oil is increasingly expensive, increasingly polluting and above all, increasingly rare, as world reserves are inexorably running out. What are the solutions, therefore, for living without oil? For its third edition, Capital Terre offers an incredible voyage, a major inquiry across three continents to answer the questions that many are asking themselves.

Without trying to cast blame on the viewer in any way, but rather to inform and enlighten, Capital Terre, launched in March 2010, is a documentary magazine programme on the environment. The next edition airs on 7 September 2011 on M6 at 20:45.