Growing footprint: pets, pigs, pythons, more
Humans keep adding things to their world.
They brought pigs to Hawaii, pythons to Florida (shown here), Asian carp to the Midwest, dogs and cats to their living rooms. They water grass so it looks pretty, grow crops so they can feed (and then eat) animals.
There may be a temptation to judge, said Shane Campbell-Staton, whose “Human Footprint” is 9 p.m. Wednesdays on PBS. “Seeing hundreds of thousands of gallons of water sprayed on something that nobody’s going to eat – it’s complicated,” he told the Television Critics Association. Read more…