Germany’s best-known science journalist Dirk Steffens takes his audience on expeditions around the world. Always on the lookout for answers to the greatest challenges of our time: In the first two episodes of the new RTL format, he asks: How can we feed 10 billion people and how can we prevent the collapse of natural systems? He explains how humanity can shape its future in a completely new way – science journalism on stage, combined with visually stunning documentaries, presented live at BMW Welt in Munich.

Science for everyone, surprising, emotional, personal, up close and personal. Supported by the conviction: There is no sensible alternative to optimism. GEO lets us see the world with different eyes.

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The biggest ecological problem in the world? Not the car, not the airplane and not the coal-fired power plant, but our food. Nothing has as great an impact on nature as the way we produce our food. Dirk brings the desire to eat onto the big stage, talks about the great successes of the agricultural revolution and why exactly this could now drag us into the abyss. Amazing connections and big ideas are wrapped up in the history of the bratwurst. A fascinating journey to locust hunting in Uganda, to one of the world’s largest dairy farms in the Saudi desert, from underwater farms in Norway to the soy war in the Amazon rainforest. And at a spectacular event in Berlin, Dirk experiences what the solution could look like. Feeding humanity and simply eating the earth healthily: In episode 1, Dirk explains how we can achieve this together.

Be it weevils, titanium root or naked mole rats – millions of species populate the earth, most of which we don’t even know. Nevertheless, each one is important if humanity wants to save itself from extinction. An estimated 150 species are currently becoming extinct every day. If this continues, Homo sapiens could also end up on the Red List in the not too distant future. Dirk explores how we can prevent this on his expeditions to the Congo Basin, the South African savannah and the seas off Mexico. How do forest elephants and whales protect our climate, what does a chocolate bar have to do with the wildlife of Indonesia and how can we stop the global extinction of species? The answer that Dirk finds on his journey around the world is surprisingly simple – and could herald a new chapter in human history. Dirk explains what we need to do to achieve this in episode 2

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