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by ownlife 38 days ago
You want to the documentary to end with David Attenborough saying that it is too late to revert the destruction of natural habitat?
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I, too, would appreciate this. "Look at what is getting lost because of YOUR choices and votes." It would be the truth.
"It's too late" and "It's your fault" are two different claims. The second one is clearly true, but it's never too late to stop making things worse.
Many people here like the bougie narrative that we’re all equally to blame, for obvious reasons. A vote is a vote is a vote.
Since this is the truth, yes, I would like the documentary to end by saying it is too late for natural habitat regeneration.
Many things are the truth, so it's really a question of framing. Another truth: humans have done reversible and irreversible damage to their natural environment; they can collectively reverse some of the damage and prevent further reversible and irreversible damage.

To focus on only irreversible damage -- especially as David Attenborough, somebody who over the better half of a century has earned massive respect and trust from people all over the world -- would be wildly irresponsible.