But now, as we enter the sixth mass extinction and climate breakdown, what we see and what we don’t see is crucial.
Describing the scale of the challenge is necessary but I wanted the series to go further, to peer under the hood.
No, the best thing about the eight-part Netflix series is that Attenborough weaves the realities of ecocide, environmental collapse and climate breakdown into the glorious imagery.
It is clear that we need radical global action and change to reverse the trajectory towards environmental collapse.