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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
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Unlike the commodities in which they deal – fresh water, clean air, icebergs, habitable land, glaciers – there is no dearth of climate change documentaries streaming on Netflix.
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.
Apparently, there is still a chance of a reasonably bright future for “the modern world as we know it”, even though our own geological time period – the Anthropocene – is nothing to be proud of, its name indicating that climate change is being driven (disastrously) by human action.
As another eminent scientist puts it: we’re contemplating “a Mad Max future”.
After 20-odd years spent peddling and polishing words in Hong Kong, Stephen McCarty now resides in Britain, from where he scribbles, daydreams and laments the state of the world.
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