Blue Planet II: can the show`s `nature porn` help with conservation?
(The Guardian Culture News)

The stunning nature programme has opened people´s eyes to the wonders of the ocean, but there have been calls for it to be much more forthright in defending itBlue Planet II: from octopus v shark to fish that crawl, the series´s biggest discoveriesMake no mistake: the honest premise of Blue Planet II is entertainment. And just as some of us go to zoos to be entertained by animals, we are encouraged by the notion that we are also educating ourselves.Film and television are passive. And at their best: hypnotic. Sit in front of your screen, and the world´s oceans and their denizens wash past you. Coral reefs, benthic depths, coastal shallows: we travel through them all. But in the last episode of Blue Planet II, we are confronted with the terrible prospect: that magical world becoming a warmed up, acidified, plastic-clogged morass. It´s as if that´s the price we must pay for paradise. What we observe, we destroy. Continue reading...