Review of Natural Energy – this environmental show turns climate crisis into a rocking show | Television

Yyou have a long neck and unmistakable calf muscles and live in South Dakota with your no-nonsense girlfriend and five mute children. You are an owl. Your days are filled with long periods of emptiness, punctuated by sudden bursts of unspeakable fear. Cows, turtles and snakes all try to reduce your lips to a boil.

But the weather is the biggest threat. In particular, it screams the Power of Nature, and the “ONE SPIRIT” that walks dangerously through the swamps, which forces you and your family to run into your hole, where you will stand with your backs trembling against the wall, legs apart and flying statues, like the steps of Charles II in court. Will you survive? Or you will be disappointed with “cluster bombs tornados” that runs rampant in the midwest?

Three years in the making, this six-part series shows how “extreme weather” affects the world’s animals. The bottom line? They are full. Or they are in dire straits. What to do?

A writer named Andrew Lincoln said: “When nature opposes them, they don’t just put up with it . . .” to fight again. These animals, “he adds, like Zeus that one thinks of as chinos, “…FOCE OF NATURE!” Look in wonder at the animals affected by the weather, which may have been caught a moment before he folded his arms and invited the weather to go outside “briefly”.

There are elephants that reach their feet in the stormy water. There is a lizard that clings to a plant stem when it is blown sideways by the wind. There is, without fail, a polar bear – already established as a monster of extreme weather – floating howling in the distance on a small piece of ice. The images are followed by a series of international news stories – all broadcast by Doom FM. “West Africa’s worst heat wave in living memory,” shouts another. “The Arctic is three times warmer than the rest of the world,” adds another.

It’s all about the end of the 90s Hollywood disaster movie, a little Earth Song; the roar of thunder and the crashing of crashing waves and sad elephants add to the vision of disaster that offers little room for subtlety. Instead, we get a close-up of monkeys holding hands and Lincoln doing this… and this … and sometimes… THIS until the last three words of each sentence, a strange madness that makes it difficult to follow lines like “When the water is rough, peace… they have turned to violence” seriously.

However, photography is huge, so let’s do our best to focus on it.

Next, we move to Kenya, where cameras show the terrifying majesty of the sky as it wreaks havoc on two primate brothers in the flood-protected Maasai Mara. It’s quite something. There are fist-shaped clouds and clouds that drop their legs on the cricket ground and run away laughing as the spectators push the umbrellas of their construction team.

Rabbits, alas, have no umbrellas. Moreover, they are bad at cricket. And so they just stand there looking drunk and miserable, like angry teenagers at a bus stop. But the flood waters continue to rise, so the brothers are forced to cross the windy river to find lunch (antelopes). It’s so sad, cats who don’t like to swim are walking through the water like chickens through paper.

“The bigger the storm, the bigger the heroes,” cries Lincoln when the rabbits finally reach the other side. A hero? “Fighting again”? Or are they just victimized every day by a man-made disaster, forced to struggle to survive as the world spins, shakes and creates records that, despite their good intentions, turn everything into a spectacle?

In South Dakota, owls emerge from a storm hole, shivering but alive. Phew. Whether he can survive another five episodes of Lincoln, however, remains… TO SEE.