DARK SIDE of the GREENS

Anthony Baxter
2015-10-01

10
69 min

Documentary investigating how developers, often working with local officials, are using golf as a smokescreen to build massive luxury resorts with negative effects on the local environment. However, people are fighting back. The programme features appearances from Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin, environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr and real estate developer Donald Trump. TV follow-up to You've Been Trumped, about the continued opposition to Donald Trump's plan to build a colossal golf course on Aberdeenshire coastal wilderness. Baxter now looks at other global beauty spots threatened by luxury resorts.