Society Highlights

For this year's Earth Day celebration, Reason.tv is proud to present "The Top Five Environmental Disasters that Didn't Happen." The environmental movement began in 1962 when Rachel Carson published her best-selling book Silent Spring. And ever since, people have warned us about imminent environmental disasters that ultimately didn't happen.We all worried needlessly about acid rain, expanding deserts and global cooling.

The Mexican town of El Alberto lies 800 miles south of the US border in the state of Hidalgo. In El Alberto they offer tourists the chance to participate in a simulated illegal border crossing, it all happens at a standard recreational park. we went to a quinceñera party and saw El Alberto from the perspective of the locals. We find that when Mexicans cross the border to pursue the "American Dream," their real aim is to bring a slice of the pie back home to Mexico.

Hajj is the world's largest annual pilgrimage that takes place in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Last year VICE Founder Suroosh Alvi went with his family and shot footage with an old Handicam. His intention was never to make a VBS doc out of it, but lo and behold here it is...shaky camerawork and all.

These kids are being trained to do whatever it takes; including turning their bodies into bombs.

Twenty billion barrels of oil sit beneath Los Angeles. Hidden in plain sight, thousands of wells pump day and night all over the city covered by hollow office buildings, camouflaged next to high schools, and concealed behind shopping malls.