Our Changing Planet

This is a BBC 2-part show with conservationists and scientists detailing local environmental damage from climate change. This is trying to look at the global issue with ground level stories. While they may interesting, they still need to connect to small local stories with the bigger global situation. It would help to show these individual locations on a map and how climate change is altering these places. This show need to connect the two sides more specifically. I am afraid that this is only singing to the choir.

What I find funny about this Dr. Is how all his hopes seem to come from crafty solutions that scientists have come up with to counter mankind's domination over nature... all seem to be solutions that exhibit the same hubris that mankind should retain its domination over nature.

Rarely do I see any discussion of curbing population growth of the human population, it seems the Dr. - like so many - take it as a given that human beings should continue procreating without question !! And let the scientists figure out out to counter all the damage that this appears to be causing in so many ecosystems and among so many other species.

It's both sad and darkly funny that the most obvious solution - cultural and societal changes that don't make it almost an imperative that humans procreate (yes India, looking at you too) are overlooked, and we turn to scientists to figure it all out. Like scientists who aim to "trick" coral reefs into thinking that man-made sounds are actually made by the wildlife that we've killed off ...

entertaining but a bit absurd, when you think of how much hubris we continue to exhibit in the face of an impending catastrophe of unprecedented scale.