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Sir David Attenborough narrates this BBC time lapse clip on YouTube. If you do not have the BBC Planet Earth series, and you are concerned with all things related to nature and our planet, I recommend that you get it if you can. The quality and flow are better than with YouTube.
Watching the polar bears as they struggle with a disappearing habitat was heartbreaking for me. (In order to see that, you will need to watch the next one-minute clip in the series, called Polar Bears on Thin Ice)
If you are not in a nature mood today, but you enjoy creativity, take a look at this 4 minute short film, called Table 7. A couple in a restaurant is unaware that they are being monitored and recorded. But why are they being recorded? What will happen to them?
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It’s very hard to bear the polar bears’ loss of their habitat. But thanks, we need to see what’s happening to the world.
As I watched the Planet Earth series, with each species struggling to survive and losing so many battles as the climate changes, I kept thinking: “Give this poor hungry animal a sandwich and some water or something.”
The BBC policy was, in general, not to intervene with nature. However, there was one heart-warming rescue- a baby penguin stuck in a hole. The parent penguin, obviously horrified at the loss of its baby, stood close by and watched, as the BBC staff rescued the baby.
Love Table 7.
Pregnant with menace, super clever, and delightful!
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I would fail at being restrained about interfering, especially for the babies.
I wish Mr. Attenborough (a figure I greatly admire) would produce a documentary bringing home the reality of ocean acidification. Polar bears are just one species. Thank St. Al for publicizing their situation. What’s happening in the ocean is a chemically-driven holocaust of species. And that’s just acidification …
I have heard as much about the critical and prime importance of our oceans; if we lose them through induced chemical imbalance, it is game over. One segment of the Planet Earth series is about the oceans (with other segments on seas, and fresh water) Beautiful, yet heartbreaking, and I do not know if chemistry and acidification is addressed but I will have a look. (Seems like you already have though, so I will probably be looking for myself!)-Thanks!
On edit: What is happening to the coral is devastating.
Recc’d! Table 7′s a hoot!