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Climate Change: The Facts (2019 TV Movie)
3/10
Just a superficial overview
1 April 2022
There are few really useful facts mentioned in this documentary, which are however only superficially mentioned. Above all, the solution for the problems has in my view not been addressed at all.

The main cause for the climate change underlying the CO2 emissions, deforestation, oceans depletion, methane release, etc. Has not been stated, which is in my opinion overpopulation. This is of course a sensitive fact for people to talk about, but nevertheless the direct cause of the worsening ecological state. What difference do the measures to reduce the climate change effect, if the overall population keeps rising and rising, and therefore the demand for all those products that contribute to CC in the first place? There was not even a mention of population increase, which has been downright skyrocketing in recent decades. With (far) less people on our planet, the carbon and methane emissions and the overall exploitation of planet and nature would sink automatically. Moreover, there would also be benefits regarding reduced danger of plagues and conflicts in crowded areas and over food and water supplies, which could be addresses by reduction in world population.

Climate Change: The Facts is overall a poor presentation, offering no real solutions (reminds me of a question being posed to the presenter of this film in the British Parliament about a concrete plan to address the issue, to which alas no precise answer was given), only cursory addressing the source of already visible consequences of climate destruction.

Speaking about the problem without pointing at its solution will hardly bring any results. Unless a thorough long-term worldwide plan is implemented to drastically reduce the planet's population, all other measures will prove ineffective and finally insignificant.
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Connections 3 (1997–1998)
9/10
All Intertwined
18 October 2019
History gets its right form, that of complex interconnection of persons/events/discoveries, where no state can ever be viewed isolated, only subject/source of an ever changing variety of influences. Creative and entertaining, offering a fresh view of the historical events as those of an living organism, the series still only seems the scratch the surface or this kind of view of history, for one senses an even profounder interdependence could be assumed.

Finding links between seemingly unrelated concepts is one of the goals of science, and we see history applies to this idea very well (why didn't anyone think of this earlier?) While Connections 3 gives history breadth and unity, what is left is providing the subject with depth, e.g. as to why a specific person strove and succeeded in a given subject and not in the other, i.e. his inner interconnections.

With the episodes lasting again almost one hour each, with recaps for easier following, Connections 3 is a worthwhile continuation to the series.

P. S. Be sure to check out "The Day the Universe Changed (1985)"
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