Life on Our Planet (TV Series) Age of Ice and Fire (2023) User Reviews

In my opinion the best episode in this series

[sbonhof · 10/10 · 18 January 2024]

I really liked this episode and it is a great end to an amazing series.

The ending of the episode was very powerful. It shows just how extraordinary we are as humans altering the planet in such extreme ways the world has never seen before. This point is especially strong having watched the whole series where it was shown how nature was allowed to run wild for hundreds of millions of years.

The final words from Morgan Freeman (who has done a great job narrating this series) "life always finds a way" were strangely conforting, even though it makes me incredibly sad to hear about the damage we are doing to the earth and all the species living on it.

Good series, with some serious factual errors in this episode

[eporter-129-715172 · 6/10 · 16 January 2024]

This episode was about earth in the age of humans. For the most part, it's accurate. Species have died off.

Some of the claims are things you hear in the media, but are also simply not true.

They say temperatures are rising at the fastest rate in the last 500 million years. Temps were rising much faster coming out of glacial periods than in the last 100 years.

They say that oceans are acidifying. Go to any ocean and take the PH. It's basic. There's way too much calcium carbonate for them to turn acidic. CO2 is higher than it's been in a few million years, but still far below the average for the last 500m.

They claim that climate change is causing forest fires. Total acres burned are actually lower than it was a century ago.