The Intricate Ties Between Rivers and Human Exploitation

In the last decade, courts around the globe have granted legal personhood or explicit rights to rivers, largely driven by environmental activism.

In his new book, “Is a River Alive?” renowned nature writer Dr Robert Macfarlane, tracks the progress of that movement, in addition to visiting some of the world’s most pristine (and not so pristine) environments.

• GUEST: Dr Robert Macfarlane, Professor of literature and the Environmental humanities at Cambridge University. 
• PRODUCER: Ali Benton