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David Attenborough is a famous British naturalist. The Happy Planet Index measures both an ecological footprint and human well-being component in a country. [thunder rumbling] [lowing] On the tropical plains, the dry and rainy seasons would switch every year like clockwork. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet is a 2020 film by the documentarian and natural historian David Attenborough. Raising yields tenfold in two generations while at the same time using less water, fewer pesticides, less fertilizer and emitting less carbon. [1] Initially scheduled for cinematic release on 16 April 2020, the film was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A boundary that marks a profound, rapid, global change. David Attenborough has seen more of the natural world than any other. The truth is, with or without us, the natural world will rebuild. If we travel back to modern-day Pripyat, David Attenborough tells us that nature is once again asserting itself. The natural world is, fading, he writes. A few days after that and theyre gone over the horizon. In the 1950s, Borneo was three-quarters covered with rainforest. Nature, once again, had to start again. Sample Page; ; At 93, Sir David Attenborough has spent a lifetime studying the natural world, and been knighted for his efforts. Fishing is worlds greatest wild harvest. I first witnessed the destruction of an entire habitat in Southeast Asia. But on the 26th of April, 1986, it suddenly became uninhabitable. Um, so, the world is not as wild as it was. This too is happening as a result of bad planning and human error and it too will lead to what we see here. If the ice disappears, so does the algae that grow underneath. You can also read the transcript. We need to shift to plant-based diets. There was nothing left to restrict us. A story of global decline during a single lifetime. Theyd never seen sloths before. watch for yourself. Right now, were facing a manmade disaster of global scale. And freshwater is equally at risk. It was designed for employees working at Chernobyl, a nearby nuclear plant. The ocean bears the brunt of this because it absorbs the excess heat of global warming. [NASA technician] Five, four, three, two one, zero. They were virtually impossible to find. Today, forests cover half of Costa Rica. We were transforming what a species could achieve. The orangutan. ATTENBOROUGH: Well, I think it changed everybody's view. Even one as vast as the ocean. [Attenborough] Ive been lucky enough to spend my life exploring the wild places of our planet. In previous events, it had taken volcanic activity up to one million years to dredge up enough carbon from within the earth to trigger a catastrophe. The purpose of Boykoff's study was to examine environmental representations, to 'provide opportunities to interrogate how particular narratives are translated, and how they make (in)visible certain discourses.' Just imagine that. The worlds greatest wildlife reserve. But scientists started to discover that in many cases where bleaching occurred, the ocean was warming. Fewer trees and more carbon in the atmosphere would escalate global warming significantly. Recordings like these revealed that the songs of the humpbacks are long and complex. In this trailer, he talks about his documentary A Life on Our Planet. Some of the numbers are slightly out too. This video guide includes 5 instructional resources for use with the Netflix video "Our Planet: Jungles".28 Question Worksheet w/ Answer Key43 Word Word Jumble w/ Answer Key43 Word Word Search w/ Answer Key43 Word Word ListWord-for-Word Transcript of the Entire EpisodeCheck out my "Our Planet: One Earth" set of resources for free.The questions are answered about every 2-3 minutes. Giving people a greater opportunity of life is what we would want to do anyway. Clean energy has to replace fossil fuels. urgency ? People benefit from the timber and then benefit again from farming the land thats left behind. We seem to have broken loose from the restrictions that have governed the activities and numbers of other animals. Our home was not limitless. Starring: David Attenborough. Each generation able to develop and progress only because the living world could be relied upon to deliver us the conditions we needed. In Asia, the winds would create the monsoon on cue. Offline ansehen. The only way to keep them alive was for rangers to be with them every day. Ice-free summers in the Arctic would also start. In this future, we discover ways to benefit from our land that help, rather than hinder, wilderness. As a child, Attenborough enjoyed studying fossils. And we now had the means to make people across the world aware. With David Attenborough, Max Hughes. Fast forward to 2021, and a far greater catastrophe looms. Attenborough is famous for many of the truly epic natural history documentaries on our planet. Ways to fish our seas that enable them to come quickly back to life. The problem is that our fishing fleets are just as good at finding those hot spots as are the fish. That is my witness statement. The start of my career in my 20s coincided with the advent of global air travel. Trailer: David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. Search the history of over 797 billion The 50,000 large dams in the world, change the water flow and temperature of rivers. Its a sanctuary for wild animals that are very rare elsewhere. I advocate that there should be zones, parts of the ocean where they should be absolutely sacrosanct, where, in fact, populations of fish can build up and actually from that, colonize the rest of the seas that we've stripped. we would keep consuming the earth until we had used it up. But, there are ways to change direction and alter the doom and gloom we've created. This city in Ukraine was once home to almost 50,000 people. There are something like 4,000 million of us today, and weve reached this position with meteoric speed. After all, theres plenty of it. A meteorite impact triggered a catastrophic change in the earths conditions. Thats almost 20 times the energy we need just from sunlight. Half of the worlds rainforests have already been cleared. Sir David. Not just ruined it. It was only in the 50s that large fleets first ventured out into international waters to reap the open ocean harvest across the globe. It was the first time that any human had moved away far enough from the earth to see the whole planet. And this is what they saw what we all saw. The last time it happened was the event that brought the end of the age of the dinosaurs. As with the citizens of Pripyat, we carry on with our daily lives, unaware that our carelessness and lack of planning will ultimately destroy us, and our natural world, unless we alter our self-destructive trajectory. By damming, polluting, and over-extracting rivers and lakes, weve reduced the size of freshwater populations by over 80%. Oil and gas companies represent the largest businesses globally, heavy industry uses fossil fuels, and there's a hefty stock market investment in these companies. That may sound impossible, but there are ways in which we can do this. A line in the rock layers. There were twice the number of people on the planet as there were when I was born. David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future 8 likes Like "To restore stability to our planet, therefore, we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing we have removed. The wealthiest 16% in the world are responsible for almost 50% of the environmental impact. We have arrived at locations expecting to find expanses of sea ice and found none. And the quickest and most effective way to do that is for us to change our diet. The government decided to act, offering grants to land owners to replant native trees. If we all had a largely plant-based diet, we would need only half the land we use at the moment. As carbon release accelerates, the ocean will continue to absorb its share of this. Weve come this far because we are the smartest creatures that have ever lived. And we've exterminated the great fisheries. There we are, on it, and everybody in the entire world is in that picture except for the two people in the spacecraft. Copyright 2020 NPR. The Maasai word Serengeti means endless plains. To those who live here, its an apt description. Orangutan mothers have to spend ten years with their young, teaching them which fruits are worth eating. We have overfished 30% of fish stocks to critical levels. Humanitarian crises would result as people would be forced to relocate, triggering border conflict. Tonight, weve got a rather different program for you. I got as close as I did only because the gorillas were used to people. Starring: David Attenborough. Soil would be inadequate, insects and bees destroyed, and droughts and flooding would increase. Any graph that measures their side-effects; carbon dioxide, methane, loss of land and sea wilderness, and increasing farmland will also illustrate a sharply accelerating increase. Then you deal so with the land. Regenerative and urban farming are two options. Billions of individuals, and millions of kinds of plants and animals [birds chirping] dazzling in their variety and richness. If we want to, we can kill almost anything in the sea that we wish. Millions of people rendered homeless. In 1990, parts of the Mexican Coast were overfished, so a marine protected area was established. Nothing to stop us. And I believe we can do our best. Every human can make a difference, but we have to come together internationally, and support the many people already hard at work to save our planet. But within only a few years, the nets across the globe were coming in empty. Yet, theyve removed 90% of the large fish in the sea. Phytoplankton at the oceans surface and immense forests straddling the north have helped to balance the atmosphere by locking away carbon. We are ultimately bound by and reliant upon the finite natural world about us. The trick is to raise the standard of living around the world without increasing our impact on that world. His book, "A Life On Our Planet: My Witness Statement And Vision For The Future" - and the highly honored broadcaster, historian of nature and best-selling author joins us now. Thank you for the feedback, the missing data has been added and incorrect year amended. The true tragedy of our time is still unfolding across the globe, barely noticeable from day to day. It has hidden its secrets well because of the difficulties of filming underwater. There are signs that this has started to happen across the globe. And a few years later, that idea became obvious to everyone. [thunder rumbling] And the weather is more and more unpredictable. Coral reefs were turning white. Attenborough's wildlife journey started at a young age. Its a creature called an ammonite. I don't think anybody has actually said that they were prepared for it, either. He researched how the Earth had experienced massive eruptions at specific points, destroying many species. Increasingly, theyre doing so sustainably. They have a symbiotic relationship; the algae absorb sunlight, which provides the polyps with the energy they need to snap up their passing prey, and expand their coral colony. In just 25 years, the forest has returned to cover half of Costa Rica once again. It was a very different world back then. The return of the trees would absorb as much as two thirds of the carbon emissions that have been pumped into the atmosphere by our activities to date. When her husband dies, Sole decides that the best way to take care of her son is to become a crime boss even if that means being her father's enemy. Our planet, vulnerable and isolated. A team of scientists led by Johan Rockstrom and Will Steffen, developed The Planetary Boundaries Model. It was the first indication to me that the earth was beginning to lose its balance. There is a double incentive to cut down forests. Thank you so much for being with us. The complete series [HD DVD] / a BBC/Discovery Channel/NHK co-production, in association with the CBC ; . Environmental economists are trying to address this. [young Attenborough] We heard a crashing in the branches ahead. A speed of change that exceeds any in the last 10,000 years. The future was going to be exciting. And all of them completely undisturbed by your presence. SIMON: I - forgive me, but I feel the need to quote a movie in which your brother starred (laughter), "Jurassic Park," where the scientist says, nature finds a way. People had never seen pangolins before on television. I wasn't prepared for it. Sir David Attenborough was 28-years-old when he convinced his bosses at the BBC to let him travel the world and document his explorations. To move from being apart from nature to becoming a part of nature once again. Sunlight, wind, water and geothermal. david frost jimi hendrix; Membership. Palau is a Pacific Island nation reliant on its coral reefs for fish and tourism. And ways to harvest our forests sustainably. 2020 WORLD POPULATION: 7.8 BILLION CARBON IN ATMOSPHERE: 415 PARTS PER MILLION REMAINING WILDERNESS: 35%, Science predicts that were I born today, I would be witness to the following. Mangroves and coral reefs along thousands of miles of coast have harbored nurseries of fish species that, when mature, then range into open waters. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. Thats the sort of commitment you need if you want to even begin making a portrait of the living world. And sadly, we don't only deplete our fish. There is no international law at the moment to stop it. And we don't learn the lessons. Urban farming is an option on rooftops, abandoned buildings, and exterior walls of city buildings. A mass extinction has happened five times in lifes four-billion-year history. Ive traveled to every part of the globe. If we take care of nature, nature will take care of us. In 1971, I set out to find an uncontacted tribe in New Guinea. He believes that we have The Planetary Boundaries model as our guide, and that we should be looking to it for inspiration. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. Honest, revealing and urgent, David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet is a powerful first-hand account of humanity's impact on nature and a message of hope for future generations. 2.4M views 2 years ago In this unique feature documentary, titled David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet, the celebrated naturalist reflects upon both the defining moments of his. Large parts of the earth are uninhabitable. Today, it generates 40% of its needs at home from a network of renewable power plants, including the worlds largest solar farm. And you could happily retire. Without large fish and other marine predators, the oceanic nutrient cycle stutters. In this . Attenborough urges us to restore biodiversity. And then, every hundred million years or so, after all those painstaking processes, something catastrophic happens, a mass extinction. There are many differences between humans and the rest of the species on earth, but one that has been expressed is that we alone are able to imagine the future. Its covered with small family-run farms with no room for expansion. Ive seen it with my own eyes. At some point in the future, the human population will peak for the very first time. In a single small patch of tropical rainforest, there could be 700 different species of tree, as many as there are in the whole of North America. There just isnt the space. The number of children being born worldwide every year is about to level off. Did you know that 1.8 trillion plastic fragments are currently drifting like a garbage site in the northern Pacific? Uploaded by David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet 2020 | Maturity rating: PG | 1h 23m | Science & Nature Documentaries A broadcaster recounts his life, and the evolutionary history of life on Earth, to grieve the loss of wild places and offer a vision for the future. The thing we rely upon for every element of the lives we lead. Saving individual species or even groups of species would not be enough. What we see happening today is just the latest chapter in a global process spanning millennia. In his latest book and film, "A Life on Our Planet," he offers a grave and alarming assessment about . The best time of our lives. As the Arctic warms, the tundra in Alaska, northern Canada, and Russia, would collapse as the permafrost would not stay sufficiently frozen to hold the soil together. ATTENBOROUGH: That means that nothing is safe. You can be forgiven for thinking that these plains are endless when they could swallow up such a herd. . SIMON: You advocate what you call no-fish zones. The tragedy is that despite powerful stories such as this, including Dian Fossey's work with gorilla populations, and the creation of tiger reserves in India, wildlife habitats are increasingly endangered. Video zone: David Attenborough: A Life on Our . SIMON: You project what the world might look like in 10 years and even a century. Even in places where theres no land at all. Let's briefly go back in time. To establish a life on our planet in balance with nature. Yet, we're nowhere near the stage where our population has stopped growing. Its quite straightforward. You write, for example, we have become too skilled at fishing. And who knows what effect that will have on the world. Fossils. SIMON: So what gives you hope? Interspersed with footage of his career and of a wide variety of ecosystems, he narrates key moments in his career and indicators of how the planet has changed since he was born in 1926. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet: Directed by Alastair Fothergill, Jonathan Hughes, Keith Scholey. The planet cant support billions of large meat-eaters. Attenborough launched an official Instagram account on Thursday, Sept. 24, in support of the film. Why wouldnt we want to do these things? I noticed that in this transcript the years of the population, carbon & wilderness miss: 1937 & 1954 & repeat the year 1997 twice the last should be 2020. We have pursued animals to extinction many times in our history, but now that it was visible, it was no longer acceptable. We had very little understanding of how the living world actually worked. Complete the sentences with words from the . This docuseries delves into one of our greatest modern mysteries: Flight MH370. From a person that has seen just how quickly our natural world has disappeared in his own lifetime, at the present rate how little time could be left, what solutions, course to take. And if you knock down the whole of the Amazon rainforest, the whole of the climatic systems of rainfall and other climatic factors will be - go off balance. All sorts of things that you had no idea had ever existed, all in a multitude of colors, all unbelievably beautiful. However, this time it included humans in its design. It will lead to our destruction. Filmmaker Sir David Attenborough has been documenting the natural world since the 1950s. It was called natural history because thats essentially what it was all about history. The last one is thought to have been a meteorite that struck Earth, destroying anything bigger than a dog. How did that change our view of the world? We were apart from the rest of life on earth, living a different kind of life. Many experts wrote off Pripyat, and many of us are apathetic about the future of the planet. However, Attenborough points out that vested interests will hold us back. Seasons blend into one another in these tropical conditions, with lush growth, abundant flowering, and seed production occurring in ongoing cycles. Tired of the small-time grind, three Marseille cops get a chance to bust a major drug network. David Attenborough: ( 00:48) For much of humanity's ancient history, that number bounced wildly between 180 and 300, and so too did global temperatures. Our blind assault on the planet has finally come to alter the very fundamentals of the living world. We are Canadian. The point for me was simple: the wild is far from unlimited. And if we do it right, it can continue because theres a win-win at play. Great numbers of species disappear and are suddenly replaced by a few. But we can make them the only source. Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on, Trailer: David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. As Attenborough reflects on his life, he begins each chapter with three facts. The process of extinction that Id seen as a boy in the rocks, I now became aware was happening right there around me to animals with which I was familiar. [indistinct chatter] The good news is that electric cars are already here. With nothing to restrict us, our population has been growing dramatically throughout my lifetime. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement. on October 24, 2021. on the Internet. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. Indoors, within cities. Ive had the most extraordinary life. A century ago, more than three quarters of Costa Rica was covered with forest. [Attenborough on video] Climbing over the tightly-packed bodies is the only way across the crowd. The Masai in Kenya engages in projects to reduce their cattle herds and develop wildlife. Levies and carbon taxes will go somewhere to shift this. The pace of progress was unlike anything to be found in the fossil record. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist. We learnt how to exploit the seasons to produce food crops. The natural world is fading. For some time, climate scientists had warned that the planet would get warmer as we burned fossil fuels and released carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. They charted them as they moved across rivers, through woodlands, and over national borders. For a long time, I and perhaps you have dreaded that future. Based on the comic book series by Mark Millar and Peter Gross. Our closest relatives. We will finally learn how to work with nature rather than against it. Summer sea ice in the Arctic has reduced by 40% in 40 years. And tree diversity is the key to a rainforest. The vast majority, chickens. 2030s. The ocean has long since become unable to absorb all the excess heat caused by our activities. Nature is our biggest ally and our greatest inspiration. But that distant world is changing. The fishing quickly became so poor that countries began to subsidize the fleets to maintain the industry. In his 93 years, Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of the planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder. The healthier the marine habitat, the more fish there will be, and the more there will be to eat. [birds chirping] Just imagine if we achieve this on a global scale. So let's go back to the beginning of this summary. Our intelligence changed the way in which we evolved. As healthcare and education improved, peoples expectations and opportunities grew, and the birth rate fell. Environmental issues have historically had low news value. Forests are a fundamental component of our planets recovery. NPR's Scott Simon talks with British natural historian and broadcaster David Attenborough about his new book, Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and Vision for the Future. And the speed of global warming increases. 75% of all species were wiped out. We also have to rewild mangroves, salt marshes, and kelp forests to restore biodiversity. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. As a result, the average global temperature today is one degree Celsius warmer than it was when I was born. Its finite. What has that done? There was an edge to our existence. Since the Second World War, what's known as the "Great Acceleration" has brought us many progressive things, as our GDPs indicate. As the ocean continues to heat and becomes more acidic, coral reefs around the world die. Overnight, Pripyat transformed from a pleasant, bustling town to a nightmarish disaster zone. And to begin with, it was quite easy. There is little left for the rest of the living world. Plankton would also be destroyed by the acid, affecting the entire food chain. Sitting on the edge of the Sahara, and cabled directly into southern Europe, Morocco could be an exporter of solar energy by 2050. The rest, from mice to whales, make up just 4%. By the 1980s, uncontrolled logging had reduced this to just one quarter. Large carnivores are rare in nature because it takes a lot of prey to support each of them. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet - Transcript October 14, 2020 David Attenborough has seen more of the natural world than any other. A prequel to "Nanti Kita Cerita Tentang Hari Ini," this film follows the love story of young Narendra and Ajeng who come from different backgrounds. Well, weve destroyed it. According to David Attenborough, we have 'overrun the Earth.' Its entirely possible for us to apply both low-tech and hi-tech solutions to produce much more food from much less land. Our cities will be cleaner and quieter. Without predators, nutrients are lost for centuries to the depths and the hot spots start to diminish. The global air temperature had been relatively stable till the 90s. list the consequences of walking in darkness; tate brothers romania; lac courte oreilles tribal membership requirements; uva men's volleyball roster. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. This is now our planet, run by humankind for humankind. Or is that question not called for under the circumstances? The ocean is a critical ally in our battle to reduce carbon in the atmosphere. And of course, if we increase our wilderness areas, we have a natural way of capturing carbon. A century from now, our planet could be a wild place again. Walruses rest on the sea ice when they're not hunting, and because there isn't enough space on the diminishing ice, it becomes very overcrowded. People were coming to care for the natural world. Despite its size, the Netherlands is now the worlds second largest exporter of food.