The British documentarian is a national treasure. But soaring strings and stunning drone shots feel frozen in an earlier era of climate activism.
Although Attenborough has documented climate change for decades—and his recent documentaries are more unflinching in their depiction of environmental harm—the default mode inis a return to scenes of jaw-dropping beauty where humans lurk somewhere offstage. The second side effect of sidelining humans is that Attenborough’s documentaries sometimes obscure the human tragedy of the climate crisis.
But the Chernobyl disaster contains another warning—not in the explosion itself, but in how the USSR responded afterwards. Denying the severity of the incident, officials didn’t evacuate Pripyat until 36 hours after the reactor exploded—exposing citizens to dangerous levels of radiation. The disaster remained hidden from the world for days, even as radioactive particles drifted across Europe,Perhaps there’s a lesson in there for nature documentarians too.
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