The title probably reminds you of the old saying, “That’s like spitting in the ocean.” A few weeks ago, I wrote a column listing the data Attenborough had summarized showing the world’s population, the carbon in the atmosphere, and the percentage of wilderness area remaining from 1911 until 2020. I expect that everyone understood why Attenborough would include the data on the human population and also the amount of atmospheric carbon, but some may have wondered about the significanc ...