“Well, a personal perspective programme about how an idealistic middleclass greek with all the usual issues in life is trying to create a meaningful, ethical and sustainable existence for his family. But rather than be the shoestring adventurer you’d go and meet (emmiting carbon as you go) the worlds leading examples of sustainable energy, subsistence low input agriculture, – social ecologists – when you ask “how does my lifestyle choice fit within society and economics of the modern world?” – evolution of society etc. The story expands from thinking about solar and veggie gardens to dealing with the fundamental questions of our time:

It’s the story of your perspective on existence and given the selfish socialism dominating greek politics at the moment, probably a useful topic to explore.

Solar pannels and a veg patch don’t really seem convincing solutions when done by a tiny moneyed and educated minority, why is society by large so committed to materialism and personal comfort?

Go meet the richest most materialistic greeks and interview them, see how happy they are – what their feelings are about the ethics of their existence, how do they intelectualise their lives? why don’t they lead more wholesome existences? What do emminent psychologists think of this? Visit traditionalist cultures in the med, what can be learned – what are the hardships of such a life that modern westerners wouldn’t be able to accept?

What are the issues underlying our inability to achieve improved happiness and living standards (judged by quality of food, environment and social support?) capitalism and it’s drive to convince us that possessions = happiness? overpopulation (we’re twice as many humans now as when we were born!!!!!) – failure to deal with reality – our escape through religion or materialism or both (if in the US).

Our values of the environment – how can we have them if we live life in isolation from it whilst also relying on the environment for food, water and inspiration? Urbanisation as we know it was essentially designed by 19th century american industrialists – their model now dominates the lifestyles of modern human society.

What does this all mean to the modern greek? Your cultural ancestors are credited with great leaps forward in the concepts of ethical society. Have you lost that wisdom as a race?

How do modern greeks raise kids to become the kind of people who can understand and react meaningfully to the realities of our anthropocenic ecology or will they simply continue to feed their sense of self worth on a diet of shallow comforts and pathetic ammusements which western society (and soon to be the case in china and south asia) has leed us over the brink of reason.

We are unique in the animal kingdom in only one true respect: we have an incling of our own ecology. We can act on that knowledge or allow natural selection to do it for us. The former is by far the most challenging but also the only true path for humanity as the man-god we percieve ourselves as. The default of natural selection, which is currently shaping our interactions with the resources on which we rely, is confirmation that without employing our understanding of ecology, which is the embodyment of humanity, we are indeed, no different from a culture of E. coli on an agar plate. ”

Heck, any Greek TV channel willing to air a show like that will find me ready and waiting!