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David Attenborough’s documentaries about the natural world have increasingly focussed on the effects of climate change, but none so blatantly – and with such urgency – as his new Netflix documentary-film, A Life On Our Planet.

The film, released to Netflix on October 4 and in cinemas now, is more personal than Attenborough’s usual documentaries, covering his life spent filming with animals since the s – and a sobering story of their decline over one lifetime.

Attenborough uses his own experiences to make the case that if he were born today, and were to reach old age, the world he would witness in would be a world struggling to grow crops due to the effects of a drastically warming planet.

“We’ve destroyed it, that natural world has gone,” he says.

“Human beings have overrun the world that is my witness statement – the story of global decline over a single lifetime.”

David Attenborough’s documentaries about the natural world have increasingly focussed on the effects of