Blue Planet II convinced BBC News to cease single-use plastic production by 2020, helps raise awareness

It's sad that organisations need to find inspiration through documentaries to finally bring change to their policies. They either ignore or dismiss scientific evidence and persuasion from environmental groups and need emotional and graphic images taken from inside their own company to bring about change. Documentaries and art ARE really important in changing public perspective on things, and it's not uncommon for politicians to be invited to watch them. But environmental issues have been around long enough that this shouldn't be the case. There's been countless documentaries already and outside pressure. The government needs more self-inspired imagination to bring about the changes the world needs. I know from meeting my local MP that he made a vote on climate change based on one leaflet he was given in the Commons. Businessmen in positions of great influence should be more self-inspired to look for things they can change. Does the U.S. government need a bunch of documentaries on guns and mental health before they inspire themselves to finally do something or are they going to read the countless media already out there and be the visionaries we expect them to be

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