This is a good piece with worthy aims. Yet it’s import not to sanctify David Attenborough. For many years he avoided all mention of climate breakdown in his globe spanning BBC Wildlife documentaries, even though he knew more than most about what was happening and the terrible threat of a sixth mass extinction that it posed - ( and of course still poses) - for the biosphere.
I think he gradually found his voice and confidence to say the things that institutions like the BBC would fight against. He has made some extremely important documentaries, which sadly still don’t appear to have broken through where it matters.
This is a good piece with worthy aims. Yet it’s import not to sanctify David Attenborough. For many years he avoided all mention of climate breakdown in his globe spanning BBC Wildlife documentaries, even though he knew more than most about what was happening and the terrible threat of a sixth mass extinction that it posed - ( and of course still poses) - for the biosphere.
I think he gradually found his voice and confidence to say the things that institutions like the BBC would fight against. He has made some extremely important documentaries, which sadly still don’t appear to have broken through where it matters.