David Attenborough - Climate Change: The Facts

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On tonight BBC1 9pm.

Anyone else planning to watch? I will be getting the whole family to watch this. Hopefully it will shake people out of their complacency.

Thanks for the heads up, just set it to record.

This is frightening and depressing. Anyone else watching?
I feel so helpless.

V.depressing. Surely everything about how we live needs to change? It feels too big to go back

Am watching. It’s depressing AF. As for Trump, someone shut that fucker up.

I'm afraid to watch tbh. I'm doing my bit, room for improvement of course, but I can't fix this.
What can?

It feels hopeless. I am watching it because of the activity of Extinction Rebellion is last few days. I would not have done so if the protests were not going on. I just looked up what they want to happen. It seems extremely unachievable for us as a country. But we are one small country, even if we did achieve zero emissions by 2025 (what they want) what about all of the other countries, particularly the most populated ones. We can't do nothing, but it feels like we will never be able to turn back.

It’s nothing new, but it does put all news stories together which yes is depressing. They can’t seem to agree on if it can be stopped or how.

So desperately sad.
Some of the politicians are very deluded about the situation.

If you thought that was scary then watch the bbc4 programme which came on after it: the Age of Stupid. Terrifying

It's made me commit to no flying this year, and I will investigate alternatives to meat with a veg phobic child

Whereas I feel helpless about it too. I think it's important that we all urge our friends and families to watch it. Change will come eventually. but the sooner we all start talking about it the better.

I didn't watch as I was out last night but public pressure does work. Look at CFCs in aerosols and plastic bags. Enough pressure can start to make a difference.

Recorded & watched last night. Made the family watch too. Shocking, scary stuff.

We need to put far more pressure on our elected representatives to do more. My local council has declared a Climate Emergency which is a start, but i don't think they really have a clue what to do...

I still don't think the large majority of people appreciate, or perhaps care, about the possible consequences. People feel too entitled to be able to drive their car to drive direct to a shopping mall rather than catch a bus or train for example.

@whiteroseredrose whilst I agree, the problem is that the general public could get their heads around buying different kinds of aerosols and ditching plastic bags.
When you tell the public they shouldn't fly on holiday, drive cars or eat meat I don't think they'll say "ok then".
Which is why governments and big corporations need to lead the way towards big systematic change.

It would be a start that you couldn’t sell stuff that wasn’t able to be recycled. So none of this “yogurt pot recycled in Outer Mongolia” in small print on the back and has go in landfill.

We are told time again food waste is one easy way we can help. But as single person it’s often cheaper for me to buy massive bags of stuff and throw away than but smaller packs. Like 6 bananas is 99p you buy 3 it’s 75. 3 onions 99p massive bag 1.50. Loose prices need come down closer to pre packed price. It’s not like staff weigh them now you aw more likely to do that at self checked out yourself.

Unfortunately individual changes (whilst still commendable and should be done) doesn't achieve much. You will always get the vast majority who think they can't make a difference or can't be bothered. Look how long it took people to stop being angry about waste bins being collected fortnightly. Where I am we also have waste food collected weekly in caddies, we are lucky to be in a very labour/green area so it looks like nearly everyone does it. More councils need to adopt this, a big thing that encouraged this was the council giving out special bags for caddies to reduce mess/smell. I applaud the extinction protestors but this is 'just another protest in London' that achieves little. Target oil refineries and power plants! I did a degree in Environmental Science so none of this is new to me, it continues to be sad and very depressing.