What David Attenborough should have said at the end of Blue Planet | Patrick Barkham

Like the sea itself, the BBC’s showpiece nature programme was calm, hypnotic and awe-inspiring. But it lacked the grave message our situation demandsWe find the sea a great source of solace and peace. The author Ronald Blythe has written of the sea’s “most wonderful monotony”, which “can drug the watcher into forgetting past, present and future”.Watching Blue Planet II has been almost as hypnotic, with its sublime rendering of our turquoise oceans, a watery wo