If that doesn't make you change your ways, nothing will.

punkdoc

Watching the brilliant beyond compare David Attenborough last night, I thought, if that doesn't change our behaviour, nothing will, and will quite deservedly die out as a species.
Any thoughts?

pansyface

I have a lot of time for David Attenborough. I was raised on his 1950’s Zoo Quest books. But I stopped watching him on TV when they went from simple informative programmes to being “Oh, listen to this dramatic music and feel how the antelope feels while running away from the lion” stuff.

So I didn’t see his programme last night. But anything that could bring about the speedy demise of homo sapiens while sparing more intelligent species on the planet would be welcome, I feel.

MikeOxgreen

It didn't stop Grandad Davids behaviour.

scroggin

@punkdoc, it was a very sobering program to watch, alas I don't see the ' human ' world taking the necessary steps to achieve reversal of the catastrophe we're in. I'll continue to adapt my actions as best I can and hope that I'm wrong.

punkdoc

Sadly, I agree with you, @scroggin, I’m just hoping that the scientists who say it is not too late are right.

Ergates

Similar sentiments to yours,  Pansyface. Much as I would love to watch some of these wonderful films of amazing wildlife in their natural habitats, Ive had to switch off when the music and commentary becomes depressing. 
Yes, it is right that we should be made aware of how fragile our planet is, and how reckless our treatment of it has been. 
However, I think there is also a place for education and entertainment without the lecturing. Music in particular is an extremely powerful manipulator of emotions, just watch almost any Disney film or adverts for charities. A few carefully chosen notes will have me howling my head off.
I’m not going to watch to the end of a programme to see if there are practical solutions I can contribute to, when I’ve already retreated in floods of tears, taking the message that we’ve ruined the planet and it’s demise is inevitable.
I may be years out of date, and current wildlife programmes may now show more of a glimmer of hope, but because I no longer watch them, I’ll never know.

Sad then that I think music is one of the few redeeming creations of mankind! I can’t think of much else that we have contributed, apart from protecting our own species at the expense of everything else including our own futures.

KT53

I'll just have to take heart from the fact that I'll be long gone when the effluent hits the revolving blades, and that we have no children.  Anything I do from here on in will have no discernible effect one way or the other.

Fire

"I'll just have to take heart from the fact that I'll be long gone when the effluent hits the revolving blades"

How can one take heart from that? It's our effluent. We're taking out huge loans and leaving them for someone else to pay.

debs64

Maybe although those of use with children are condemned by some the point is that I worry what sort of world I am leaving for my grandchildren. That said I know many childless people are equally concerned. 

Songbird-2

Fire said

How can one take heart from that? It's our effluent. We're taking out huge loans and leaving them for someone else to pay.

E That is  what the last Labour  government did too.  Left no money for the next party to govern. What goes round, comes round. That’s the nature of the beast. 

punkdoc

This really isn't anything to do with Party Politics, successive Governments of all hues have ignored the problem.
As for blaming DA because he is a grandfather, truly pathetic, @MikeOxgreen. When he became a dad, we didn't know we had a problem, plus I don't think any one has ever said, nobody can have children. That would be an equally good way of killing off the human race.