Times TV critic Robert Lloyd surveys Earth Day programming and recommends 7 TV shows that offer hope amid a dark moment for the planet.
TV critic Robert Lloyd combs YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch and more for the best web videos to emerge from the coronavirus crisis.“Born Wild: The Next Generation”
focuses on baby animals, and appropriately enough, accentuates the positive while not entirely eliminating the negative. We visit a thriving multi-generational pride of lions in Kenya and learn that black bears are making a comeback in northern Minnesota; researchers snuggle cubs in their parkas against the cold as they tag them. We watch different species of monkeys hang out as friends in Sri Lanka and curious baby seals on what’s left of the Arctic ice.
Happily, if possibly quixotically — time, what’s left of it, will tell — the program ends with Greta Thunberg and her children’s crusade. “The more I read about it, the more I understood how dangerous it was for everyone,” Thunberg says. “I stopped going to school, I stopped talking because I was so sad… One day I decided that this was enough. My future and everybody else’s future is at risk, and nothing is being done, no one is doing anything, so I have to do something.
traces water from its first appearance on the surface of the Earth — a spectacular debut — to what one might call its increasing unavailability; how it shapes the flora and fauna, us included; how it has determined the rise and fall of civilizations. The series has been styled, McEvers says, as a “podcast,” which really just seems to mean that the narrator sounds chirpy and casual and refers to her own situation or reactions.
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