To Guillermo Navarro, executive producer of the National Geographic documentary series Hostile Planet, there’s no doubt global warming is dangerously real.
“We’ve made sure to turn the oven a little hotter and things are cooking quicker,” Navarro comments ruefully. “In these last 50 years the planet has evolved more rapidly than the last six million years.”
The impact of climate change on species across the globe forms the crux of Hostile Planet, a contender for three Emmy Awards including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. It’s never been easy for animals of any kind to endure and pass on their genes in the great Darwinian contest that is life on Earth. But rising temperatures have made it even tougher, the series maintains.
“The fact is that [animals] have a very difficult time surviving now. So the story of a polar bear 50 years ago when these natural history movies started being...
“We’ve made sure to turn the oven a little hotter and things are cooking quicker,” Navarro comments ruefully. “In these last 50 years the planet has evolved more rapidly than the last six million years.”
The impact of climate change on species across the globe forms the crux of Hostile Planet, a contender for three Emmy Awards including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. It’s never been easy for animals of any kind to endure and pass on their genes in the great Darwinian contest that is life on Earth. But rising temperatures have made it even tougher, the series maintains.
“The fact is that [animals] have a very difficult time surviving now. So the story of a polar bear 50 years ago when these natural history movies started being...
- 8/22/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
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