{"id":55632,"date":"2020-11-15T07:08:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T12:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55632"},"modified":"2020-11-15T07:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T12:08:58","slug":"dear-david-attenborough-beautiful-netflix-documentary-but-your-solutions-destroy-nature-even-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55632","title":{"rendered":"Dear David Attenborough, beautiful Netflix documentary. But your \u2018solutions\u2019 destroy nature even more"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"align-with-body\">\n<div class=\"align-with-body__inner\">\n<div class=\"align-with-body__inner--no-padding\">\n<h3 class=\"article-title\" data-field=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thecorrespondent.com\/781\/dear-david-attenborough-beautiful-netflix-documentary-but-your-solutions-destroy-nature-even-more\/52432608382-481ff02e?fbclid=IwAR2uAow8sdIlaI67hdLcOOJOhY09hzl6jquxoYKACuvWXy9JPfguO7uLlX0\">Dear David Attenborough, beautiful Netflix documentary. But your \u2018solutions\u2019 destroy nature even more<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"article-authors__follow-container\">Dear Sir David Attenborough,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"js-publication-progress-container article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"align-with-body\">\n<div class=\"align-with-body__inner mod-white\">\n<div class=\"article-body js-article-body\">\n<div class=\"body-text\" data-field=\"content\">\n<p>I recently saw your new film,\u00a0<em>A Life on Our Planet<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 a beautiful, harrowing documentary about the global decline of our natural ecosystems. It\u2019s a bitter pill with a sweet dessert: a possible way out of this mess. I couldn\u2019t help but choke on that dessert \u2013 because you suddenly mention the Netherlands as a leading example for the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>As a Dutch person, this would be a great honour, if it weren\u2019t for the fact that you are gravely mistaken.<\/p>\n<p>Your reasoning is as follows. We humans are cultivating more and more land for agriculture to support our growing global population, thereby destroying natural ecosystems. The most important example is a seemingly endless succession of palm oil plantations in Borneo, built at the expense of the richest nature on Earth, including orangutans, our siblings in the canopy.<\/p>\n<p>So, you say, we need to focus all our energies on cultivating more food on less land. \u201cThe Dutch have become experts at getting the most out of every hectare,\u201d we hear you say with your familiar eloquent tone. \u201cDespite its size, the Netherlands is now the world\u2019s second largest exporter of food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to you, the Netherlands has increased its production tenfold, while using fewer pesticides and artificial fertilisers, with lower CO2 emissions. We see tomatoes growing in futuristic greenhouses, and even vertical farming: heads of lettuce growing one above the other, 10 storeys high, illuminated by purple LED lighting.<\/p>\n<p>But the fact that we are champion exporters is not because we pile heads of lettuce on top of each other or because we grow sustainable sci-fi tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear David Attenborough, beautiful Netflix documentary. But your \u2018solutions\u2019 destroy nature even more Dear Sir David Attenborough, I recently saw your new film,\u00a0A Life on Our Planet\u00a0\u2013 a beautiful, harrowing documentary about the global decline of our natural ecosystems. It\u2019s a bitter pill with a sweet dessert: a possible way out of this mess. 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