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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020)
I never give a 10, yet this is a 10!
Such a legend and he tells his story (and our story) with breathtaking honesty.
We must transition to sustainable energy, raise the global living standard and we must stop our consumption of meat.
It is that simple and concrete.
Kiss the Ground (2020)
Empty and manipulative
The first third of this documentary is great. It is informative and follows a logical progress from problem to idea to solutions and then implementation. We meet the people trying to present their ideas about soil health and regenerative farming. The potential for humanity is truly staggering... but then we lose the logical coherence and hidden behind the beautiful smiles of well meaning white people, we get an incoherent claim about grassing cattle saving the world.
There's so much information missing:
1) How is a few cows moving around huge plains scalable? This could from a soil perspective work for a few rich people... but it simply cannot feed the global population.
2) To which extend is Allan Savory's claims supported by dara/results/science? In fact a quick search shows that this self proclaimed expert has a beautiful vocabulary but very little data and little to no support from scientists in the field. But he happily claims to save both Africa and the meat eaters from having to change their habits. This is simply wishful thinking.
3) So Brady and his beautiful family eat well. That is nice and it could be interesting to hear how a top athlete eats and manages his body... but we don't get any actual information here.
4) At one point some random person (who is just brought in for this quote) claims that if only we kill humanely, then we can eat all the meat we want. In the context of killing creatures who want to live, it is unclear what "humanely" means (the definition is "tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals").
Etc.
At the end this program seems to be nothing more than a commercial for the meat industry, so they can put a sticker of a happy cow on the cheap meat from the sad industry that simply cannot be made humane nor a global solution to the current on-going destruction of the planet.