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I’ve now caught up with the latest #BluePlanetLive programmes, and they dismay me. Yes the BBC is talking about environmental issues. But there are two flaws so massive that they make these programmes worse than useless.
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Flaw 1. #BluePlanetLive carefully and deliberately avoids any collision with powerful interests. There’s not a word about the fossil fuel industry or the plastics industry (which are one and the same), and only fleeting references to the fishing industry.
There's no mention of who is cutting down the mangrove forests, or for what purpose. No mention of the massive lobbying effort that prevents effective regulation of fishing. No mention of the activities causing climate breakdown. It’s as if power does not exist.
I hope #BluePlanetLive will go large on commercial fishing tonight. Though it's by far the biggest current threat to marine life, Blue Planet 2 gave it a free pass. I'll watch with interest.
I would also like to see the BBC engage with the structural causes of environmental destruction. Given its major bias towards consumerist perspectives and consumerist non-solutions, this seems unlikely. A consistent failure of balance.
Oh dear. You clutch at any grain of environmental information, pathetically grateful that the BBC has mentioned something, even if it's only one or two sentences, and no visuals, but simultaneously furious that this meagre fare is as good as it gets.
