York introduces the fifth programme in the series looking at the shared Problems of northern Europe's common waterway.
Denmark has a reputation as the European Community's environmental conscience, but many Danes believe that they are not achieving the high standards they have set for themselves, and that before criticising others they must first clean up their own pollution. The Danish paradox is exemplified by their fishermen. They are Europe's most militant opponents of the sea's pollution and yet some of them own fish meal factories which pour tonnes of nutrients into the North Sea. This programme examines these internal conflicts in a country where the environment is consistently found to be the main political concern in opinion polls.