BBC's The Green Planet with Sir David Attenborough tackles climate change from the perspective of plants

Will cuddly old Sir David Attenborough have the patience to show us, yet again, the errors of our ways by going once more unto the breach — and onto the beach, and through the rainforest and across the desert — to fill the frightening gaps in our knowledge of the natural world?

Indicating the series' importance, the first instalment, Tropical, was shown at the opening of the recent Cop26 in Glasgow, where the real stars of the intensifying climate-change battle received due recognition. Time-lapse images captured by a remote-control camera called the Triffid show the blooming of the world's largest flower, a species of Rafflesia, from inside and out. Luckily they can't transmit its repulsive odour — said to be of death.

Executive producer Mike Gunton refers to that network as "the wood-wide web", an appropriate term catching on among scientists to describe "this internet of the forest beneath our feet. There's this other world going on all around us that we just don't realise."As we stumble from "plant blindness to plant awareness", Gunton sees clearly the path to survival humans must choose. "These are our friends," he says.

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