I used to love watching documentaries but the more you watch them the more you see how most often they are biased and edited to show the authors / producers point of view.<p>How a documentary is edited can mean the same facts and interview being used to show something being positive or totally negative. I guess it's true for all media but I've found this especially true for a lot of recent ones I've seen (last was Bikram yoga predator).<p>Btw here is an awesome video that shows how editing can do wonders for how we perceive things(1). Though this one is about reality tv, I've seen the same done in a lot of recent documentaries too.<p>(1) <a href="https://youtu.be/BBwepkVurCI" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/BBwepkVurCI</a>
> impact films<p>Is an “impact film” one which is optimized for conversion of non-believers to a cause, as opposed to being optimized for education?<p>I am a “believer” in the green agenda. I get it. I support it. But I would like to learn more about the scientific reality of climate and nature, and a lot of these films turn me away because they just feel like emotional propaganda.
Propaganda is still propaganda, regardless of whether it's used for "good" or for evil.<p>From watching hundreds of similar documentaries over the years, these here look exactly the kind that I'd avoid watching because they manipulate the truth and tell half-truths (unnecessarily) just to propagate their agenda, which is usually not exactly enviromental, but seeming like they are care.
I think that people "dedicated to the future of the planet" and "avoiding greenwashing" should mention that online video generates 60% of world data flow (~300MT CO2/year) [1], and that carbon dioxide emissions are also paradoxically one of the reasons why these documentaries are created.<p>This video is bad for climate change. Thanks for watching ! [2]<p>[1] <a href="https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-online-video/" rel="nofollow">https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/unsustainable-use-onl...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJn6pja_l8s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJn6pja_l8s</a>