Earth’s fate and the devastation of the natural world were recently put under the microscope with the release of Sir David Attenborough’s Netflix documentary A Life On Our Planet.
It marks a departure from his usual nature documentary format and instead grieves for the damage wreaked by climate change and other forms of human interference.
It’s an emotional watch, as the naturalist recounts the environmental changes he has seen first-hand throughout his career, such as the devastation of the Borneo rainforest and its native orangutan population.
Here are nine reasons we too should be concerned about the future of the planet and the millions of species which call it home.
1. More than one million species are now at risk of extinction
Over a million species of animal and plant life are now threatened with dying out – more than ever before in human history, according to the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
2. Wildlife...
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