This documentary is on Netflix and you should watch it. Attenborough is iconic in his reporting on the planet, its health and its sorrows. In this film he shows us the worsening situation of the entire world, from Africa to Antarctica to the United States, brought on by climate change and disregard for the stability of our planet.
Everyone should watch this, not because he explains how humans have wrecked the planet but because he explains how we can take back the real world that can sustain us and how all of us are culpable in the destruction that has already happened. It is not always a happy documentary but if you know Attenborough's work you know that the photography will be gorgeous and the writing will be perfect. He is a master at telling about and showing the life in the wilds, be it Africa, South America, Asia, America and on..... And now he is telling us the peril our planet is in.
Take the 90 minutes out of your life and watch this. It might not change anything about your life now but it certainly will make you think and possibly make you act.
I have always believed that no matter what humans do to defile the planet, our Earth will go on, it will live on long after our screwing around with it, destroying ecosystems, raising the temperature of the planet, ruining biodiversity. The Earth will survive. Perhaps we humans are just another "experiment" much like the dinosaurs, and we will have over extended our time in another 100-200 years. Attenborough alludes to that: who cares what we do, the Earth will continue on as a nice, life-affirming planet, maybe not with our lives, but the Earth adapts. The planet will be fine, it is us humans who will not survive.
Anyway, please watch this documentary. It is important.
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