This alga is vital because it's the start of the Arctic and Antarctic food chains. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. Kate Raworth, an economist at the University of Oxford, has added a social boundary to The Planetary Boundaries model - one that requires us to provide minimum levels of human well-being for all, including adequate housing, clean water, food, education, and justice. Ive seen it with my own eyes. You knock down a rainforest tree, and you get a lot of money from the timber which you sell. I first witnessed the destruction of an entire habitat in Southeast Asia. In this time-jumping dramedy, a workaholic who's always in a rush now wants life to slow down when he finds himself leaping ahead a year every few hours. Recent surveys indicate that one-third of the population has either stopped or reduced their meat consumption in the UK, and 39% of Americans are trying to eat less meat. Those forests and plains and seas were already emptying. Weitere Details. Every one has a critical role to play. And because we would be then dedicated to raising plants, we could increase the yield of this land substantially. Half of the fertile land on Earth is currently farmed, and it's often overgrazed, over-sprayed with pesticides, and denuded of topsoil. 2020 | Maturity Rating: PG | 1h 23m | Documentary Films. Attenborough's wildlife journey started at a young age. Giving people a greater opportunity of life is what we would want to do anyway. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet: Directed by Alastair Fothergill, Jonathan Hughes, Keith Scholey. There was nothing left to restrict us. Preparation task . Renewable energy, such as solar, wind, and water, could supply power. In this trailer, he talks about his documentary . Coral reefs don't like acid, and 90% of our reefs could die off in a few years. The Happy Planet Index measures both an ecological footprint and human well-being component in a country. [protester over megaphone] We are men and women, and we speak for children, and were all saying, Please stop killing the whales.. My first visit to East Africa was in 1960. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. The cycle of destruction continues as the sea life is trapped by or ingests this waste. Let me just ask you about the 2030s. A speed of change that exceeds any in the last 10,000 years. How did that change our view of the world? Its covered with small family-run farms with no room for expansion. [NASA technician] Five, four, three, two one, zero. David Attenborough is a famous British naturalist. We had very little understanding of how the living world actually worked. As Attenborough says: 'We regard the Earth as our planet, run by mankind for mankind.' It was going to bring everything we had ever dreamed of. Um, so, the world is not as wild as it was. For the first time, Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garca Mrquez's masterwork comes to the screen. Ive always had a passion to explore, to have adventures, to learn about the wilds beyond. These rivers are also dumping grounds for chemicals and pesticides, destroying birds and freshwater fish. Air transport will be hugely problematic to solve, although electric and hydrogen planes are in the process of being developed. A Life on Our Planet. Remember you can read the transcript at any time. The world population was 2.3 billion, the carbon in the atmosphere was 280 parts per million, and the remaining wilderness was 66%. We account for over one-third of the weight of mammals on earth. It's estimated that three-quarters of our food crops could fail. They were virtually impossible to find. 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. SIMON: So what gives you hope? It will survive. It was a very different world back then. This city in Ukraine was once home to almost 50,000 people. "No fishing" zones cover less than 7% of the ocean. An in-depth, sobering look at the tragic events of a century ago. However, here's a curveball. Fast forward to 2021, and a far greater catastrophe looms. The pace of change was getting faster and faster. Sir David, thanks so much for being with us. Attenborough urges us to restore biodiversity. In one act, this would transform the open ocean from a place exhausted by subsidized fishing fleets to a wilderness that will help us all in our efforts to combat climate change. Nothing to stop us. And Im going to tell you how. Offline ansehen. Life cycles on, and if we make the right choices, ruin can become regrowth . We learnt how to exploit the seasons to produce food crops. [Attenborough] They lived in small numbers and didnt take too much. The living world cant operate without a healthy ocean and neither can we. When I filmed with the mountain gorillas, there were only 300 left in a remote jungle in Central Africa. And it lived about 180 million years ago. Complete the sentences with words from the . Our predators had been eliminated. David Attenborough is a famous British naturalist. These people were hunter-gatherers, as all humankind had been before farming. And there, only a few yards away, we spotted a great furry red form swaying in the trees. When you think about it, were completing a journey. Its decision to do so has resulted in the human species pushing our planet towards a tipping point. Amazingly the plants on Earth, together with their ocean counterparts of algae and phytoplankton, know all about solar power. And if there's a profit in it, we do that - worse than that, even when there's not a profit in it, when governments actually see fit to subsidize it. By the 1980s, uncontrolled logging had reduced this to just one quarter. The natural world is fading. The forest is growing, flowers and fruit trees blossom, and wild animals visit. [whales singing] Their mournful songs were the key to transforming peoples opinions about them. And the idea could be passed from one generation to the next. Indoors, within cities. 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. The largest whales, the blues, numbered only a few thousand by then. If we all had a largely plant-based diet, we would need only half the land we use at the moment. By and large, its a story of slow, steady change. 75% of all species were wiped out. The Masai in Kenya engages in projects to reduce their cattle herds and develop wildlife. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. And freshwater is equally at risk. But, the moral of the story is indeed a positive one. A knight framed for a crime he didn't commit turns to a shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence. If herds of animals couldn't travel to new grazing, they, along with predators, would starve. I don't think anybody has actually said that they were prepared for it, either. 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. Attenborough is now 94, and throughout his long life, has watched the natural world wither before his eyes. It seems possible for us to feed ourselves quite happily using half the land we currently use. And we don't learn the lessons. A thick belt of jungles around the equator has piled plant on plant to capture as much of the suns energy as possible, adding moisture and oxygen to the global air currents. Attenborough, David, 1926-2 Entertain (Firm) BBC Video (Firm) British Broadcasting Corporation; . It had everything a community would needfor a comfortable life. However, this time it included humans in its design. Over billions of years, nature has crafted miraculous forms, each more complex and accomplished than the last. Weve managed to travel by boat to islands that were impossible to get to historically because they were permanently locked in the ice. [indistinct chatter] Humpbacks living in the same area learn their songs from each other. And who knows what effect that will have on the world. It's happening already. By the time Frozen Planet aired in 2011, the reasons for these changes was well established. The natural world will survive. Farms take up a combined space the size of North America, South America, and Australia combined, with devastating greenhouse gas emissions. It worked out the secret of life long ago. The ocean is a critical ally in our battle to reduce carbon in the atmosphere. But Ive had unbelievable luck and good fortune. Since the Second World War, what's known as the "Great Acceleration" has brought us many progressive things, as our GDPs indicate. As a result, female polar bears are giving birth to smaller cubs, and these underweight cubs are less likely to survive. All these years later, its once again the only option. If the ice disappears, so does the algae that grow underneath. For 10,000 years, the average temperature has not wavered up or down by more than one degree Celsius. In 1971, I set out to find an uncontacted tribe in New Guinea. A century ago, more than three quarters of Costa Rica was covered with forest. Our imprint is now truly global. It had everything a community would need for a comfortable life. The Amazon Rainforest, cut down until it can no longer produce enough moisture, degrades into a dry savannah, bringing catastrophic species loss and altering the global water cycle. Um and, in a way, I wish I wasnt involved in this struggle. The predators help to keep nutrients in the oceans sunlit waters, recycling them so that they can be used again and again by plankton. As a child, Attenborough enjoyed studying fossils. Phytoplankton at the oceans surface and immense forests straddling the north have helped to balance the atmosphere by locking away carbon. You write, for example, we have become too skilled at fishing. As the ocean continues to heat and becomes more acidic, coral reefs around the world die. We were apart from the rest of life on earth, living a different kind of life. There just isnt the space. Estimates suggest that no fish zones over a third of our coastal seas would be sufficient to provide us with all the fish we will ever need. 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. Do the preparation task first. Again, the two features work together. The rest, from mice to whales, make up just 4%. Then watch the video and do the exercises. Environmental issues have historically had low news value. The various meetings that have been convened by the United Nations - setting out plans which need validation by national governments and which will cost national governments, and I think that we need to persuade our own government in this country - and maybe you in your country - that we as citizens recognize what's happening to the world. The more diverse it is, the better it does that job. We remember environmental disasters, but do we actually learn from them? Your email address will not be published. Just imagine that. As healthcare and education improved, peoples expectations and opportunities grew, and the birth rate fell. A monoculture of oil palm. Insects, our small hunters, and pollinators have reduced by one quarter. Fishing is worlds greatest wild harvest. In 1990, parts of the Mexican Coast were overfished, so a marine protected area was established. And suddenly, we realized, you know, we're there together, and we're alone. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series that form the Life collection, which form a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. He seems tired of keeping quiet about it. Each generation able to develop and progress only because the living world could be relied upon to deliver us the conditions we needed. As Attenborough cautions, the bleached coral is like canaries in a coal mine. Without this training, they would not complete their role in dispersing seeds. It was a rediscovery of a fundamental truth. And we understand that it's going to cost something if you put it right and that the Western and developed countries had more than their fair share. We must rewild the world. Below the line are a multitude of lifeforms. A Life on Our Planet is a masterpiece that explores the life and legacy of natural historian and national treasure David Attenborough. In the 30 years since the evacuation of Chernobyl, the wild has reclaimed the space. As carbon release accelerates, the ocean will continue to absorb its share of this. In his more recent travels, Attenborough noticed fishers using mosquito nets in the hope of catching something to eat. This trajectory is unsustainable, and the Great Acceleration will inevitably result in a "Great Decline.". In the 1960s, families often had five children, but today the average is 2.5. We need to shift to plant-based diets. Theyre places in which evolutions talent for design soars. we would keep consuming the earth until we had used it up. For example, the Costa Rican government offered farmers grants to replant indigenous trees twenty-five years ago. Sir David,. Rising sea levels could lead to cities like Rotterdam, Ho Chi Minh City, and Miami being evacuated. 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. We have such a fascination for wildlife, but wild animals make up only 4% of the mammals on Earth. People had never seen pangolins before on television. But it now appeared this was only because the ocean was absorbing much of the excess heat, masking our impact. A Life on Our Planet David Attenborough A legacy-defining book from Sir David Attenborough, reflecting on his life's work, the dramatic changes to the planet he has witnessed, and what we can do to make a better future. It seems that the human population will only really peak early in the 22nd century, at about 11 billion people. If you have a global view, which - and science can give us - science would say that there are more species in danger of total disappearance than there have been in human history. So, I had the privilege of being amongst the first to fully experience the bounty of life that had come about as a result of the Holocenes gentle climate. How do we reclaim farmland but also increase the food supply for a growing population? The herrings have disappeared from the North Sea. The ocean has long since become unable to absorb all the excess heat caused by our activities. In 1950, a Japanese family was likely to have three or more children. Rainforests are particularly precious habitats. The evidence is all around. There's some good news though. 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. You could fly for hours over the untouched wilderness. ATTENBOROUGH: Well, I'm not sure if you can take an overall view like that. On current projections, there will be 11 billion people on Earth by 2100. In Asia, the winds would create the monsoon on cue. However, as it does this, carbon dioxide changes into carbonic acid. Starring: David Attenborough. 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. Raising yields tenfold in two generations while at the same time using less water, fewer pesticides, less fertilizer and emitting less carbon. Since I started filming in the 1950s, on average, wild animal populations have more than halved. How many people can the Earth carry? So, what do we do? Two legendary Go players, once student and master, face victory and defeat as they inevitably come face to face as rivals. Overnight, Pripyat transformed from a pleasant, bustling town to a nightmarish disaster zone. And we now had the means to make people across the world aware. But that distant world is changing. The last time it happened was the event that brought the end of the age of the dinosaurs. Be the first one to, David Attenborough - A Life on Our Planet 2020, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). SIMON: You project what the world might look like in 10 years and even a century. 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. I've seen it with my own eyes. Levies and carbon taxes will go somewhere to shift this. But its now becoming apparent that its not all doom and gloom. And the changes we have to make will only benefit ourselves and the generations that follow. To move from being apart from nature to becoming a part of nature once again. Billions of individuals, and millions of kinds of plants and animals [birds chirping] dazzling in their variety and richness. 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. on October 24, 2021. Attenborough says, We run life on the planet to meet our own ends.. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. But it was noticeable that some of these animals were becoming harder to find. Fishers survived on food vouchers but kept the faith, and today, marine life in that area has increased by more than 400%. So when he asks that people heed his "witness statement" about the peril humans . A further 60% are the animals we raise to eat. Sir David Attenborough is a BAFTA and Emmy-Award winning broadcaster and natural historian.He is the internationally bestselling author of over 25 books, including Life on Earth.He also served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s, and as the President of the Royal Society for Nature Conservation in the 90s. 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. 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 David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet (2020), which premiered on Netflix, co-director Keith Scholey of Silverback Films and producer Colin Butfield of the World Wildlife Fund bring us Sir David's witness statement. 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. Within 20 years, renewables are predicted to be the worlds main source of power. By damming, polluting, and over-extracting rivers and lakes, weve reduced the size of freshwater populations by over 80%. Without the white ice cap, less of the suns energy is reflected back out to space. david frost jimi hendrix; Membership. The wealthiest 16% in the world are responsible for almost 50% of the environmental impact. I spent the latter half of the 1970s traveling the world, making a series I had long dreamed of called Life on Earth, the story of the evolution of life and its diversity. authoritarian parents often quizlet; worley sustainability; joshua blake pettitte; arizona snowbowl ikon pass; upadhyay caste obc or general; when do baby . ATTENBOROUGH: Well, it could be gone. David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future 33 likes Like "We live our comfortable lives in the shadow of a disaster of our own making. He and his son used a plane to follow the herds over the horizon. 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. It was a feature of all five mass extinctions. 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. All rights reserved. Der Emmy-gekrnte Naturforscher David Attenborough (Unser Planet", Planet Erde II") hat einen Plan fr die Zukunft. [chuckles] Because I wish the struggle wasnt there or necessary. [Attenborough on video] Climbing over the tightly-packed bodies is the only way across the crowd. Most of our diseases were under control. No one has lived here since. And, of course, the ocean is important to all of us as a source of food. It was the first indication to me that the earth was beginning to lose its balance. Our blind assault on the planet has finally come to alter the very fundamentals of the living world. David Attenborough is a famous British naturalist.
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