The Guardian view on Planet Earth: its life in our hands | Editorial

Sir David Attenborough’s latest, maybe last, series put the responsibility for the future of the world with us – where it belongs
Planet Earth II has been a triumph. More people tuned in to last night’s sixth and last episode than watched the X Factor final on ITV an hour later. Occasionally, the series strayed into the anthropomorphic, but it was endlessly surprising, often astonishing, as technological advance brought intimacy to the struggle for life. Heartstopping sequences