Humans | A Perfect Planet

Duration: 58'07''

Synopsis

Earth is the only living world we know of, but a new force threatens our perfect planet. That force is us. Humans are changing our planet so rapidly, it's affecting earth's life support systems: our weather, our oceans and the living world. To understand what is going wrong, we must look to the past.

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