The world-wide success of this year’s BBC documentary ‘Planet Earth’ showed that there is great deal of public interest in the state of our planet and it’s many inhabitants. This may be because, as they say, the best stories are true ones, but I hope that the millions of people who tuned in to watch every week also appreciated that the ongoing story of Planet Earth not only affects us, but that we will be writing the next chapter – for better or worse.
The latest book to be borne of the multi-million pound production, Planet Earth: The Future, seeks to educate, entertain and ultimately guide us to ensure that we try to write a happy ending. Unlike the majority of books on the topic of sustainability, it is written for everybody and seeing as environmental issues are everybody’s issues, this can only be considered a good thing. With contributions from David Attenborough, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Richard Mabey (to name but a few), I can’t recommend this important, inexpensive book highly enough.
Other books based on the BBC series Planet Earth: Planet Earth: The Making of An Epic Series and Planet Earth