Risky Businesses

No Jungereality show is ever likely to appear on Al Gore's Current TV. The fishermen of Catch take great risks because it is harder to find the crabs every year—they may wind up as overfished as Atlantic cod or the swordfish in The Perfect Storm. The ice road truckers deliver heavy machinery to a diamond mine in the Northern Territory of Canada, and the guys on Ax Men chop down trees for a living. Beers and Co. make sure to toss in a perfunctory line in the script about "replanting trees for future generations," but these shows are not for the green at heart.