BBC's Own Fight For Survival Shown In The Green Planet

Corporation and nature both under attack from toxic forces

- Harry Cockburn

Here we go again: soaring strings, rhapsodic bursts of colour, the fireworks of the natural world glittering in mesmerising detail – it’s the latest episode of The Green Planet.

It is another electrifying glimpse of the glory of the world around us, showing how impossible it is to tire of natural beauty, or of understanding it in all its chaotic, interwoven variety.

The third instalment of this series comes not only as the planet faces ruin at human hands, but also airs as the future of the BBC appears to be in increasing jeopardy.

It is not hard to spot the appropriate metaphors.

Sir David Attenborough is standing knee deep in snow at the edge of the Arctic Circle where he tells us life for the 750 billion trees there is hard enough without the climate crisis erasing the certainty of the seasons.

“To survive these extremes plants not only need to be hardy and resilient, but many of them have developed special strategies in order to meet the demands of this seasonal world,” he says.