The side effect of sidelining humans is that Attenborough’s documentaries sometimes obscure the human tragedy of the climate crisis. Via WIREDUK
. If Earth had to offer up a planetary spokesperson for the natural world, Attenborough is the odds-on favorite, and for good reason: His softly intoned reverence for the natural world has inspired a sense of wonder for generations. He has done more than almost anyone to bring faraway landscapes into our homes in an unforgettable manner, and to remind us that we are destroying these beautiful, fragile ecosystems., there is something—forgive me—that leaves me a little cold.
In most Attenborough documentaries, nature is unspoiled, beautiful. It is elegiac strings overlaid on unbroken blankets of ice. It is something that exists outside of ordinary human experience—a somewhere else that hovers so far on the edge of my own life that it might as well be plucked from the pages of a fantasy novel. Humans are there in the Attenborough documentary but seldom onscreen.
, the environmental writer Elizabeth Kolbert describes the chaotic way that humans are imprinted on just about every. It’s messy, and humans are wreaking havoc everywhere we step, but Kolbert dispenses with the myth that nature exists outside of humanity and that only by stepping away can we right the wrongs we have wrought. To be sure, Attenborough doesn’t fully subscribe to this view either.
I’m personally not convinced by this line of thinking, but I do think that wishing away humans in order to focus on nature has two other side effects that we can see in Attenborough’s documentaries. One is that our destruction of the natural world is sometimes sidelined. Conservationist Julia Jones made this point in relation to, the filming of which she observed for three weeks in 2015.
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