James Bond & Pollution

Our Bond with the Planet

"Underneath the Mangrove Tree, My honey and me can watch for the moon . . . ", lyrics to one of the iconic images from the Bond films where Ursula Andress emerges from the sea to meet James Bond, Sean Connery, on a polluted beach in the first ever Bond film, Dr No.

Cinematic history for pollution! 

It was, of course, "Mango" and not "Mangrove" but we like to think of it today as Mangrove - a bond with the planet either way. Dr No is the first film to feature 'pollution', made in 1962, predating the first Clean Air Act in the United States in 1963.

Bond & Pollution

Bond films feature pollution as one of its recurring stars and films include:-

Dr No 1962 (nuclear fall out on a Caribbean Island)

Thunderball 1965 (Nuclear Weapons)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 (Biochemicals)

Diamonds Are Forever 1971 (back to nuclear weapons destruction)

The Man With The Golden Gun (Solar power and the energy crisis)

 Moonraker 1979 (nerve gas to eradicate mankind )

The World is Not Enough 1999 (Pipeline / pollution)

Die Another Day 2002 (Solar Energy and crops)

Quantum of Solace 2008 (Controlling water supply)

No Time To Die 2021 (the wish to have more time to live life)

Could Bond Save the Planet?

A 2018 survey in the United States shows that 27% of the population have watched all the Bond films and 47% have watched some of them. That's more than 5 billion viewings in the United States alone. Imagine if everyone who had gone to see a movie at the cinema had planted a tree when they purchased their ticket!