Jade McCarrick

There is a painful irony to clearing jungles in order to build greenhouses. This picturesque presentation of Singapore is especially grating since, earlier in the film, an emotional section on the endangerment of orangutans in Borneo due to deforestation and forest fires is dragged out through evocative music and poignant images of lone orangutans amid a charred landscape. But there is no acknowledgment on Attenborough's part of the global capitalistic forces that drive these ecologically devastating actions: