Aug 27, 2020
The Trump administration abandoned our allies. Now they’re abandoning us.
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The Trump administration abandoned our allies. Now they’re abandoning us.
Our Planet is unwatchable. The latest U.N. climate change report is unreadable. We’re slowly getting it anyway.
The biggest difference between the shows is that Our Planet is unnervingly explicit about humans’ impact on Earth and its creatures. While the BBC series tend to save any discussion of climate change and human devastation for the end of episodes or, more often, the last episode of each season, in Our Planet, the narrative beat “ … and we’re destroying them” seems to recur in every segment. This makes for a dramatically different viewing experience—a profoundly uncomfortable one—and since “profoundly uncomfortable” isn’t really what most people are going for when they watch TV, it’s not surprising to me that a bunch of people I know who have started the series have ended up abandoning it midway through. It’s easy to lap up Planet Earth’s servings of wonder. Our Planet is asking us to do something tougher: stare at destruction, and reckon with our share of the blame.
Ivanka herself puts the rumors to rest, at last.
I used to think, “He can’t be fucking serious!”, but I know better now.
(via United Nations International Years (2015–2029) – List, Meaning & Importance)
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