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I worked on David Attenborough’s documentary. The grim reality gave me climate anxiety | Liv Grant

For the BBC’s Climate Change: The Facts, I met those living on the frontline. I struggled to cope with what I learned

We live in a time of loss. Wild places dwindle, the animals and plants that live in them disappear. Climate change is now a certainty, and it will without a doubt lead to the loss of land, species, and ways of life. In the abstract this is disconcerting. Up close it is devastating. I worked on the BBC’s Climate Change: The Facts, presented by David Attenborough, and have felt this pain first-hand.

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