The brilliant documentary is Sir David Attenborough's "witness statement and vision for the future". He speaks openly about climate change and shows everyone how devastating the effects are going to become if we continue to turn a blind eye to this important matter.
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, starts in Ukraine where, in 1986, the nuclear power station, Chernobyl, exploded and caused everyone to be evacuated. This introduction of Chernobyl helps build up to the bigger picture of climate change as Attenborough compares the two and how Chernobyl was a single past event but climate change is still unfolding around us globally. He shows us that if nothing changes between now and then, the result will be the same as Chernobyl and Earth will become uninhabitable.
Straight away, this documentary opens your eyes to how severe the climate change issue is and goes on to express and define the importance of biodiversity and the global Earth's ecosystem. It perfectly puts into perspective how much plants, animals and humans rely on each other to survive. Especially how we rely on animals that are going extinct and plants that are dying.
In riveting detail, David Attenborough goes on to explain everything he has seen in his lifetime and how humans have evolved to become overpowering creatures. He showed us how, as a species, humans have grown and multiplied so incredibly fast that they are draining the rest of the planet from its natural resources. This shocking realisation that we are the main cause of climate change creates this sense of guilt and doom throughout with statistics that are hard to swallow.
This feeling lasts until the end part of the film where Attenborough reveals that you can still stop climate change from getting worse and that it isn't too late if we are willing to make the required changes for our planet to thrive.
To finish, David Attenborough is back in Chernobyl where nature has come back and grown in all the empty towns and houses and animals have returned. He says that "the wild has reclaimed the space" and "however grave our mistakes, nature will ultimately overcome them", showing us how this is not about saving our planet, it is about saving our own species and stopping humans from driving ourselves to our own extinction.
This fantastic, eye-opening film is one of the most relevant and needed documentaries by far and should be seen by all, to help spread the real message of climate change and how catastrophic it actually is. Available on Netflix, you can watch it now to understand the true power and danger our actions are having on this planet.
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