Every Living Person Should Watch These Netflix Documentaries

And they will change the way you think about the environment.

Do you know there are some powerful environmental documentaries on Netflix that can transform you into a whole different person? These documentaries will question your day-to-day life and enhance your worldview opening new windows of thought.

They will give you different lenses through which you will be able to see things more clearly from numerous angles.

In this post, I will introduce you to some incredible Netflix documentaries. Each of them will expand your knowledge and inspire you to think deeply about the environment.

Let’s dive in!

Seaspiracy

What if I tell you that you should stop eating sea fish? Will you do that? Most probably, not. I mean, why should you avoid sea fish when they are so delicious and sometimes a delicacy. But I am confident that after watching Seaspiracy, the first thing that will float in your mind is to stop eating sea fish.

Seas are not as blue as it appears before our eyes. It is full of blood. We, human beings, are the cruelest species on earth who killed everything that comes in our ways. And if you believe it or not, we destroyed all the seas by killing, selling, and eating all its inhabitants.

Seaspiracy reveals all of that — the cruel world of sea politics. A topic almost no one is talking about. And if you are wondering, there is no word like sustainable fishing. It’s a made-up word just to hide what’s going on there.

From the tiniest fish to giant whales, nothing is spared. Everything is part of the business and money is the first and last thing that counts.

Seaspiracy brings a depressing reality in front of your eyes and inspires us to play our part to stop this madness.

A Plastic Ocean

After having a coffee at Starbucks, you throw away the one-time cup into the bin and think that it directly goes to heaven. But in reality, it doesn’t. Yes, every plastic waste you make remain in the environment for hundreds of years.

I hope you know that even a simple plastic bag that you carry from a grocery store to your home takes more than 400 years to degrade. And do not get fooled by the recycling message because only 9% of the discarded plastics get recycled, and the recycling process is way expensive than you could ever imagine. So, where does that 91% of plastic waste go?

IUCN states that 8 million tons of plastic are dumped into our oceans every year and cause 80% of all marine debris from surface waters to deep-sea sediments.

A Plastic Ocean shows the shocking reality of what’s happening in the seas. It tells us how we are polluting our oceans every single day without even going there physically.

It’s our fancy lifestyle that has been killing marine life every second. The plastic cups we are using, the water bottle we are having, the plastic bags we are carrying all are causing death to marine life.

Now, what can we do? We can adopt simple changes in our daily lifestyle to secure our children’s future.

A Plastic Ocean is begging you to think, think, and think before using plastics. Because, when the seas die, human beings die as well.

Cowspiracy

Well, plastics are not the only things that are killing our planet. There are other things too that people are afraid to talk about. Even the environmental organizations remain silent about that issue. Why? Because their fundings will get stuck if they open their mouth about that. But Cowspiracy did that impossible.

They found out that the livestock industry is destroying the planet more than anything else. And it’s the leading cause of global warming, deforestation, water depletion, and species extinction. It is a brave documentary that unveiled what remained secret decades after decades.

Every minute, the size of a football field area of Amazon forest gets cleared for livestock farming. And there are big mafias involved in this with legal backing. So, no one can do anything about it. And if anyone dares do something, they get killed or go missing.

Cowspiracy reveals some terrible and shocking truths that were hidden from our very eyes for years. And who could ever imagine that the meat we buy from super shops has a devastating impact on the planet?

Chasing Coral

Our actions are constantly making other lifeforms impossible to live and thrive on this planet. And to be honest, we don’t care. But the ironic reality is if other lifeforms face extinction, we will follow the same fate soon. Coral is one of that other lifeforms. It’s beautiful, it’s magical, and it’s teeming with life. And it’s an inevitable part of an ocean’s ecosystem. But they are fading away. Why?

Chasing Coral talks about the incredible world of corals and how they are dying due to the rise of sea temperature and pollution. It is a serious issue to consider if we want our seas to be alive and functional.

What used to be a colorful garden of life thirty years ago is not a barren wasteland with dead coral skeletons all around. And no alien species destroyed them. We, humans, killed the corals brutally with our greed and selfishness.

Chasing Coral shows that in the last 30 years, we have lost 50% of the world’s corals. And we are still losing it every single day.

This documentary will make you sad and force you to rethink your day-to-day actions.

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

For those who love documentaries on nature and the environment, David Attenborough, the name itself is as inspiring as anything else.

This 95-year-old man lived an extraordinary life and witnessed the marvels of this amazingly mysterious planet. He also observed the changes that impacted the environment negatively and destroyed the ecosystems.

In his documentary, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, David puts light on his extraordinary journey and the terrible changes he witnessed in the environment over the years. He also talks about how we can still make the world a better place — for us and for the generations to come.

This documentary wonderfully exhibits what we have lost over the years due to our unmindful actions. And with each day, we are just digging our own graves.

And, nature — no matter what — thrives even after a mass extinction. But we, humans, have no future ahead if we continue to live the way we are living right now.

It’s time to appreciate and coexist with nature — not against nature.

To Conclude

I highly recommend you watch all of the above documentaries as they will teach you more about this lovely planet — the planet we are destroying every single day with our greed and selfishness.

These documentaries will also give you a different lens to see what most people ignore, and they will transform you into a conscious human being who speaks for the environment.

Happy watching!

Read the following articles about the environment and wildlife and take action to save the planet.

• The School of Nature
• Are We Greenwashing Ourselves?
• I Saved Three Turtles and a Dolphin Yesterday
• Add ‘Environment’ to Your New Year’s Resolution
• An Average Person Eats 70,000 Microplastics Each Year

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