What a view | The best Netflix documentaries to watch on climate change, from Hollywood star-led Brave Blue World to Sir David Attenborough’s Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet
- There is no lack of climate-change documentaries on Netflix to watch, such as Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis and Seaspiracy
- Sir David Attenborough examines biodiversity in Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet, and how climate change is being driven by human action
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis adopts the superstar approach to taking action, with Matt Damon and Jaden Smith joining narrator Liam Neeson and assorted engineers, inventors and philanthropists in highlighting a still largely ignored emergency that affects us all, not just “the poorest people on Earth”.
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet sees Sir David Attenborough upfront in the company of professor of environmental science Johan Rockström.
As another eminent scientist puts it: we’re contemplating “a Mad Max future”.
One hundred million sharks – those killed by us annually – don’t need reminding how we are obliterating marine life. But we do; and the deplorable truth can be found in Seaspiracy, which notes that “stopping shark’s fin soup is only half the picture” because it’s merely an Asian, not a global, calamity.
And “shark’s fin city” – Hong Kong – provides plenty of evidence when the plucky documentarians begin filming undercover.
Sustainability shows are easy to find. Unlike documentaries that confront this fact: every impending planetary catastrophe stems from human overpopulation.
