David Attenborough on Netflix, feel like crying.

[TheLurkingOne]

Due to my new-normal state of perma-anxiety, I have just had to stop watching his new netflix documentary.

Is there any hope for our world? Will my kids have air to breathe in 50 years time? Will the world be a blackened wasteland?

I know if I keep watching it he will have a message of hope for us at the end, but I suspect it will have an "act now before it's too late" theme.....and somehow all the recycling and sustainable living i can muster isn't going to solve this unless governments and leaders "act now ". Which I don't think they will.

I just feel so sad. Its such a sad documentary.

Should I watch the end or just look at pictures of cats doing funny things instead?

Sounds interesting, what the documentary called?

"David Attenborough; A Life on Our Planet"
Don't get me wrong, I think he's amazing. I love his programmes usually. But we have fucked up our planet pretty badly haven't we? He is just telling it like it is.

We have fucked up and more people need to wake up and see that to be honest.

I'm childfree by choice and one reason is environmental but I get scoffed at on here for saying it.

Im in my 30s and I'm expecting to see huge challenges in my lifetime. It's very sobering.

I haven't watched it but I can imagine. I'm so sorry, but really if you pay any attention to the world's top climate scientists (and many specialists in other related fields such as naturalists) they are absolutely despairing.
We can try very hard, but the consequences are already baked in from emissions we made decades ago. And emissions are still rising.
It's a horrible realisation and I think as time goes on we will see more people suffering mentally from the knowledge.

Just finished watching it. I cried, a lot. He does do some positive stuff at the end but it's clear it's down to us to sort, and with the world leaders we currently have I have zero confidence we will.

It does get better at the end - definitely worth watching all the way through because there are little changes we can all make that will help if enough follow them

It is sobering. I can remember working for a local authority back in 1990 when the white paper, "This Common Inheritance" was published and what I found concerning was the generally accepted principle that the damage we were seeing back then, in 1990, was the result of our actions/lack of actions from 20-30 years previous to that. It spurred me on to change career direction and work in environment but I had to get out of local authority work because they just paid lip service then, there was no intention to actually make any change.

Some of the environmental changes we could make would be very unpopular with politicians (increase EfW (energy from waste)). It's only in the UK that we shy away from incineration with energy recovery and boy do we spend a fortune and vast emissions on transporting waste around.

If we stopped to think about what was best for our land, air and water we would change how and what we do but, money talks...

It is sobering but on the positive side, awareness is increasing and the focus is starting to shift. Every little helps even if it just keeps us in status quo.

And yes, David Attenborough is a great presenter. He's had a privileged life and has made much of it.

I was the nerdy teen who was up for recycling and had posters all over my wall with GreenPeace, animals going extinct WWF, reusable energy, glaciers melting.
I’m 44 now. This was 30 years ago.
I am so glad this is being made out as a massive issue to the masses now. But, this was 30 years ago 😫 I feel so sad it has taken so long.

I went to see this at the cinema, it had the interview with David A and Michael Palin afterwards (not sure if that's on Netflix too)

I cried several times in the viewing (I know if it more impacting perhaps on the big screen) and I think it was the saddest film I've ever watched. But there is hope. Instead of doing things, we have to stop doing them.

Watch to the end. David Attenborough is inspirational and if anyone can get us to see sense, he can.

I’ve already given up to be honest. I adore my children but I do feel tremendous guilt that I had them.

People need to change the lifestyles.
Look at some threads here.

Toilets have to be bleached once a day.
Washing machine put on everyday.
Pile of presents for Christmas/birthdays.
“Just order a takeaway” polystyrene containers
“Just chuck it out and get a new one”

And the life goes on...