Climate Chaos

Did anyone else watch the David Attenborough documentaries Are we changing planet earth? and Can we save planet earth? I wasn’t expecting to learn too much from them, as I think I’ve got a pretty good awareness of the issues and some of the solutions, so I was shocked at the impact watching them had on me. They really brought home just how big an issue global warming is, and how important it is that we start to act now.

With the entire BBC Climate Chaos season and Al Gore’s film, it feels like we’re reaching a tipping-point of public opinion - but I suspect that I’m noticing these things because of my “green tendencies”, and in fact most of the country (and the world) are largely unaware of the size of the problem facing us.

I think the BBC should make the documentaries freely available for download on its website. Surely it would be a masterpiece of public service “broadcasting”, and a perfect way to promote the Creative Archive? Does anyone have David Attenborough’s email address…?