There's an explanation of climate change, it's impacts and what we can do to reduce it. Being a David Attenborough documentary it also contains some amazing footage:
- Australian bats littered on the ground after a heatwave, (perhaps turn away at that point if you're an animal lover)
- Dashcam footage as a father and son driving through a bushfire to escape it - only to realise that was impossible, (their escape was quite miraculous)
- Flames coming out of ice. This was a demonstration of the quantity of ice-trapped methane in the permafrost. When this permafrost melts (due to climate change) this methane will be released and cause even more climate change. This is what's called a tipping point.
There's also amazing stats:
- British heatwaves are 30 times more likely than in the 70's.
- Greenland is losing ice at 5 times the rate that it was just 25 years ago.
- The US state of Louisiana is losing land the size of a football field every 45 mins - due to sea level rise - and already people have had to abandon their homes.
Sometimes our tendency is to avoid change even when it's necessary. It's important to remember that the "cost of action is dwarfed by the cost of inaction".
Some more David:
David Attenborough's Great Barrier Reef
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