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It looks as spectacular as you would expect. It sparked a public debate and behavioural, plus possibly legislative, change. He made his name in black and white, but the clips collected here are a reminder that his best work has been full-spectrum. The crime is the destruction of Earth’s habitats, for which he has had a ringside seat.

In A Life On Our Planet, however, Attenborough wields his age as a rhetorical device. Contextless stories don’t inspire us to change, after all; they just allow us to continue in our comfortable, fatal state of denial.

Attenborough is due to front a film explicitly about climate change as part of it. Produced largely by the team behind the BBC’s Planet Earth and Blue Planet, it looks very much like what they might have done next for Auntie if the Natural History Unit had given them their druthers (and Netflix’s budget).
Three measures of progress appear in stark type on screen: the Earth’s human population, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and the percentage of Earth’s wilderness remaining.

The naturalist’s latest Netflix release looks back over his near 70-year broadcasting career

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The first episode begins with a brief history of our planet, including our early origins right the way through to modern day.

The ginger pop of an orangutan marooned on top of a bare tree trunk, the white of a polar bear swimming in an iceless polar sea, rainbow-coloured birds hopping around in the jungle.

You can only boggle at the endless precision of the natural world, and of the people who devote themselves to capturing its wonders. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? If that sounds slightly po-faced, there’s an anger in this tone that hasn’t always been present in his work. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. Vast aerial sweeps across the Peruvian coast as millions of cormorants and boobies gather to feast on anchovies and breed, or across frozen tundra to watch herds of caribou head for the shelter of the forest in temperatures 40 degrees below freezing take your breath away. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. The routine from the blue manakin – which involves four birds who practise beforehand, with a juvenile male standing in for the prospective lady – will have you revising your own sexual decision-making.

Surely it’s time to hand over to someone else. All rights reserved. Whatever I’ve been doing, he has been there, saying the same thing.

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That they have power to raise awareness and do good was proved when Fothergill was, after the huge success of Blue Planet, permitted to go slightly off the beaten narrative track in the sequel and include some environmental warnings about the accumulation of plastics in the ocean, via scenes of a turtle entangled in it and a whale calf poisoned by their chemicals. Socially responsible nature programming that retains all its beauty – we have at last, and at least, come to this. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Three of the 60 species of manakin birds doing their mating dances, each more jaw-droppingly complex than the last.

• This article was amended on 5 April 2019, replacing “herds of wildebeest” with “caribou”. Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr. Then it catches in your throat, as you watch an orchid bee, in search of perfume to attract a mate, fall into a flower’s buckety petal and squeeze out of a tiny tunnel that deposits two sacks of pollen on its back; just as God, or a million years of evolutionary adjustments, intended.

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“Human beings have overrun the Earth,” he says. Lesser flamingos building mud mounds for their eggs and hatching thousands of chicks in unison. He is also the same age as television. ‘I am David Attenborough and I’m 93.

Awe-inspiring ... a dust storm blows over a colony of socotra cormorants endangering their chicks.

These programmes at which I've spent so much time gawping are also testament to years of hypocrisy and inaction. The story begins happily, in Attenborough’s childhood and early broadcasts, where the world seemed like a paradise, and then quickly worsens.

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Thanks to Attenborough and the thousands of brilliant producers, camera operators, editors, guides and other crew who have worked with him over the decades, we at least know what we are losing.
Footage and memories from his career, starting with the young man hunting for ammonites in Leicestershire, alternate with a new interview, with his face in close-up, in which he lays out the scale of the disaster and tentative hopes of improvement.

Just as God, or a million years of evolutionary adjustments, intended ... an orchid bee.

The quicker we can raise the global standard of living, the sooner everyone will stop having so many children. If only a third of Britain’s coastline was protected against fishing, our seas would soon be full of fish again.

Producer Alastair Fothergill has expressed frustration that he wasn’t allowed to include more on the subject at the BBC. The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. So when he asks that people heed …

David Attenborough says A Life On Our Planet (Netflix) is his “witness statement”, a 90-minute summary of nearly 70 years in broadcasting. Netflix’s breathtaking, multimillion-dollar nature show not only poached David Attenborough – it stole the BBC’s thunder, Last modified on Fri 5 Apr 2019 14.05 BST.