Our World and Plan B
I have been watching the Netflix documentary series “Our Great National Parks” hosted and narrated by Barack Obama. There are five episodes and so far I’ve watched three, which include inaccessible ‘stone’ forests in Madagascar, rain forests, the Great Barrier Reef, the Patagonian national park in Chile and Tsavo park in Kenya. Pic from the documentary Apart from the outstanding beauty of these natural spaces and the efforts to maintain them, there is of course the soothing quality of Obama’s baritone voice. His voice inspires trust and confidence. We want to listen to what he has to say. We believe him. We want to do better for our planet, which, of course, is the whole point of this documentary series. He tells us of the great importance of preserving our rain forests, because – a quarter of all our medicines originated in rain forests. And the secrets to a cure for cancer could lie here, in the depths of these forests; in the sloth who takes a month to digest a leaf and so t...