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Climate Change, The Facts

In April this year, while I was in London, a new documentary by the distinguished and loved naturalist David Attenborough was launched by the national broadcaster (BBC) on prime time television.

The title was “Climate Change, The Facts”.

And that was also the content: an honest and direct review of the climate situation as we find and understand it, the imperative it puts on us to act, and the consequences if we do not. All of which was supported by moving scenes of beautiful though unsettling video photography and David Attenborough’s gorgeous and instantly recognizable voice narration, turned now to a most serious observation of tragic reality.

The timing was fortuitous. It came during a brief lull in the ongoing Brexit disaster and additionally during the week that Greta Thunberg happened to be speaking in front of the European Parliament, where she publicly chided the assembled dignitaries for not having given climate change more focus and attention. There’s nothing quite like seeing global leaders lectured by an actually righteous teenager.