"If you ask me whether the BBC or ExxonMobil has done more to frustrate environmental action in this country, I would say the BBC."
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Does anyone have a bunker I can borrow for a while? This is my column today:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/07/david-attenborough-world-environment-bbc-films …
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"If Attenborough’s environmentalism has a coherent theme, it is shifting the blame from powerful forces on to either society in general or the poor and weak."
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Here's my response in the comment thread to some of the arguments being made against challenging David Attenborough.pic.twitter.com/9thVAESxYm
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I’m glad someone said it. Attenborough has offered us nature as spectacle, entertainment and of course learning. But he has failed to teach us to transform our love of watching nature into protecting nature. He had failed to speak the truth about causes of environmental damage.
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That's a wee bit unfair. He has raised the issue of plastic pollution of the oceans to public notice.
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Please give me some credit. I started work in the BBC Natural History Unit and made some highly successful programmes, until investigative work was shut down by orders from on high.
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Thank you, George. I feel like Blue Planet II pointed to a huge problem, muttered vague platitudes about personal responsibility and walked away.
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good summary
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You are brave,
@GeorgeMonbiot. Thank you for your wonderful courage. Passing this on as widely as I can. -
thanks Cathoel
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