From the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, to Mexico City, the biggest man-made constructions on the planet show the epic scale of our redesign of Earth. Generation Earth sinks below the ground to meet the sewer divers of Mexico City and travels to the top of the Burj Khalifa's spire to discover how the 24,000 windows that make up this building are kept clean.
A record-breaking expansion in road, shipping, air and rail networks has laid tendrils across the globe. Connections have been forged that have changed how and where we live. Generation Earth follows the attempt to move a drilling rig bigger than Buckingham Palace and travels to the top of one of China's longest suspension bridges.
Astounding engineering, mining and farming projects have pushed further and deeper into our planet to provide for our ever-increasing population. From the construction of the planet's largest aqueduct, soon to re-route China's waterways, to the world's largest array of greenhouses, covering hundreds of square kilometres of southern Spain in plastic, Generation Earth traces the impact of our human footprint across the globe. We're now harnessing as much of the world's resources as we can - all to provide us with the everyday consumables we take for granted.
