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Hunted

Hunted is a novel and highly acclaimed Channel 4 series where a dozen people have to avoid capture by The Hunters for about 4 weeks. Wikipedia has a great summary page.

We live in a surveillance society. Our biggest companies (e.g. Facebook and Google) thrive from our private data. It is quite likely that the Brexit vote hinged on illegal use of Facebook, Brexit: The Uncivil War is well worth watching.

We also live beyond our means in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, acidification of our oceans, plastic pollution, generation of nuclear waste and many other nasties. We are in the middle of the Sixth Mass Extinction which is likely to include our species. Extinction Rebellion exist to wake everyone up to the emergency.

Is it possible to live a private and sustainable life whilst staying online? I've applied to take part in Series 5 and hopefully will get to find out - even if I don't get a place this year I've enjoyed finding out how hard it is to generate your own power and run computers from it.