Ecocide Watch

Our Planet is the biggest, nicest snuff film ever made. The mass murder it records has been in progress for at least 60 years, probably longer. The victims are the Earth’s flora and fauna and the complex ecosystems they inhabit. Eventually, the list of casualties will include the same species that produced the high-tech moviemaking equipment that allowed filmmakers to capture razor-sharp 4K digital-video imagery of jungles, glaciers, and velds, and the industrial technology that enabled strip-mining, mountaintop removal, clear-cutting, chemical pollution, and the manufacture of nonbiodegradable plastic that’s currently destroying coral reefs and choking aquatic life to death.

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