Nature’s Blueprints (Science, 3x50 min 4K)
Television
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Turn on the national or international news and it seems that our planet is facing overwhelming problems. Record-breaking floods devastate some parts of the world while others suffer unprecedented droughts. Waste material clogs rivers and threatens ocean life. We’re running short on energy and most of the energy we produce makes things worse by releasing carbon dioxide. Technological fixes haven’t worked. We need a different approach!
Luckily for our future survival, nature’s research and development department has been operating for three and a half billion years. In that time, it has solved all the problems we now face and hasn’t killed the planet in the process.
This series investigates the new concept of biomimicry – exploring nature’s blueprints to solve problems, from better robots to amazing new materials and radically new ways to produce energy.
In the last few decades, the science of biomimicry has really advanced. Scientists have realized that biomimicry is far more relevant than originally thought. It’s already generating safer cars and more economic buildings, but it can also tell us how to better work together and how to improve democratic politics. The answers to our problems are out there in nature – all we have to do is look.
The series explores three areas – challenges that we must overcome urgently, if we’re to reduce our impact on our own home planet. How to move around, how to create materials without trashing the environment and how to generate and use energy without compounding climate change.
