What are your favorite nature documentaries that DO talk about human beings, but NOT in a way that sounds like humans just suck? (slrpnk.net)

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Prompted by a post from @krishnanrohit: "I'm once again registering my annoyance at the fact that EVERY SINGLE NATURE DOCUMENTARY talks about how humans suck. Literally every single one. I am so tired of explaining to my 7yo son that no humans are not destroying everything. That he can be optimistic. It's obscene."

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[-] SlowBurn@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago

Haha yeah in no way was I trying to say that, "humans are being good caretakers of the planet" because as an overall statement that would obviously be false. However, it is true that there are countless examples, even today, of people being good caretakers of specific ecosystems, or of social/political systems which can impact some ecosystems.

videos or documentaries…about specific conservation efforts that focus on the actual project and what it accomplishs

Yeah, that kind of stuff. Any you'd recommend?

[-] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that kind of stuff. Any you’d recommend?

A bit dated but Cousteau's documentaries, while it mentions environmental problems, do that from a discovery point of view.

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