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Extinction: The Facts, a documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough, lays out compellingly that species around the world \u201care vanishing at rates never seen before in human history.\u201d This rapid disappearance of wildlife will only accelerate \u201cunless we take immediate action.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stanford\u2019s Professor Elizabeth Hadly warns onscreen that, in the twenty-first century, the human race could be the new \u201casteroid\u201d that causes the next mass extinction. The approximately sixty-minute film details manmade practices driving widespread biodiversity loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The climate crisis, which Hadly describes as the \u201cescalator to extinction,\u201d is of course the leader of the doomsday pack when it comes to extermination threats. Startlingly, Extinction<\/em> also argues that these lethal trends are exponentially unleashing plagues, including COVID-19.       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sir David Attenborough<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A production of BBC Studios\u2019 Science Unit, Extinction<\/em> is produced and directed by Serena Davies, who previously helmed 2019\u2019s Climate Change: The Facts<\/em>, with Attenborough and Greta Thunberg. Extinction<\/em> tells its riveting tale with exceptionally high production values, in particular its use of sumptuous cinematography that ranges from aerial long shots of Earth to extreme closeups of plants, insects, and beasts in the wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intercut with this optical opulence are interviews with scientists, activists, academics, economists, conservationists, and caretakers such as James Mwenda, protector of Africa\u2019s last two northern white rhinos at Kenya\u2019s Pejeta Conservancy. The documentary is held together by the onscreen presence of naturalist Attenborough, who is now ninety-four years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Peter Daszak, president of the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, delivers what is arguably Extinction<\/em>\u2019s most hair-raising commentary. \u201cWe\u2019re behind every pandemic,\u201d the British zoologist and disease ecologist eerily asserts, \u201cIt\u2019s our interaction with nature that drove COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, as dire and damning as Daszak\u2019s wakeup call about humanity\u2019s own culpability may be, it also contains a kernel of opportunity, because some of the harm coming to the planet could be avoided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To counter biodiversity loss, annihilation, and ecological apocalypse, the film calls for a strategic partnership between industry, the private sector, local communities, and government. Extinction<\/em> provides specific case studies of this alliance and\u2014though reviled by rightwing, laissez-faire fanatics\u2014government regulations enacted to successfully save the environment and endangered species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Northern White Rhino from a scene in “Extinction: The Facts”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another powerful scene includes flashbacks to Attenborough\u2019s personal encounters in Rwanda\u2019s forest with then-threatened mountain gorillas in scenes from Attenborough\u2019s iconic 1979 Life on Earth<\/em> series. Though they were on the brink of being wiped out at the time, these gorillas have been saved by proactive conservationist cooperation in Rwanda\u2019s Virunga Mountains. Today, the gorillas are thriving, their population growing from about 250 to 1,000-plus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are facing a crisis and one that has consequences for us all, but it\u2019s not too late,\u201d says Attenborough in the film. \u201cI truly believe that together we can create a better future, if we make the right decisions at this critical moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extinction<\/em> suggests that the price and peril of economic systems placing profit before the planet is that humanity itself is at risk of becoming an endangered species in what may turn into a \u201clost world.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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