planet earth

I wanted to write this much later, but with this week being WWW (world wildlife week), I think it makes better sense.

First, WWW - we need this, but that we got into a place of needing this is insulting. Insulting both to the animals and to humans. Animals - because it akins to them begging us for a chance to continue living. And humans because it reflects on us so poorly. I don't want to write about this because it makes my insides so caustic and spiteful.

The only solution is for global consciousness of the planet to rise significantly. We cannot do it through laws. Or through laws which are totally bullet proof. For this, for all nations in the world, the environment as it is (which includes the animals, fishes, the snow caps, glaciers, rivers, oceans) must become top priority. Not economy. Well, it is not necessarily mutually exclusive, but we've got it to a point where a decision has to be made. Between a choice of the two, the former must always come first. I wonder how deeply into the mire we will be realizing this. If not the Governments, the corporations must do it - at this point, it is a pipe dream.

Now to planet earth - I am talking about the TV series. Someone said, dedication is scarce material on the planet. I think its probably because the crew sucked up all of it for their project. With a whopping 25 million dollars allocated to the project, the crew has spared no effort or time to capture absolutely exotic and touching footage from all over the planet. Whether it is spending a month to capture a five minute footage of the snow leapord, or braving the mighty Antarctic winter to shoot the majestic emperor penguins or waiting days in the night to capture lions hunting an elephant (seriously! this is real and happened!) - this crew has pushed all bars of technology and commitment to the hilt. The feather in the cap is their attitude - at the end of an episode, where they are camping on the arctic to shoot polar bears, one of the crewman in their head is startled to see the head of a polar bear in their window - pushing its face against the glass. David Attenborough says  - "It's a startling reminder that WE are visitors in THEIR land."
The sad part is that, in the next 10 or so years, all the footage we have as part of the series and similar initiatives is the only place where we will be seeing these.

Good luck humans - hope all these at least makes you all happy. Otherwise what's the point!