Starring: David Attenborough. For a long time, I and perhaps you have dreaded that future. Palau is a Pacific Island nation reliant on its coral reefs for fish and tourism. All rights reserved. You could fly for hours over the untouched wilderness. ATTENBOROUGH: Well, I'm not sure if you can take an overall view like that. However, as it does this, carbon dioxide changes into carbonic acid. With nothing to restrict us, our population has been growing dramatically throughout my lifetime. All that evolution undone. We were transforming what a species could achieve. But its possible to slow, even to stop population growth well before it reaches that point. There we are, on it, and everybody in the entire world is in that picture except for the two people in the spacecraft. 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. By damming, polluting, and over-extracting rivers and lakes, weve reduced the size of freshwater populations by over 80%. And if we do it right, it can continue because theres a win-win at play. Its covered with small family-run farms with no room for expansion. 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. 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. The Maasai word Serengeti means endless plains. To those who live here, its an apt description. SIMON: You project what the world might look like in 10 years and even a century. The evidence is all around. The resources they used naturally renewed themselves. Tune in for a live pre-show 30 minutes before Chris set, followed by an aftershow. While the future of our planet may look bleak, Attenborough offers us hope and a vision for restoring our planet. No one has lived here since. Renewable energy, such as solar, wind, and water, could supply power. The living world cant operate without a healthy ocean and neither can we. There is no international law at the moment to stop it. Farming would be pushed to a crisis point. In this trailer, he talks about his documentary A Life on Our Planet. [Attenborough] If we can change the way we live on Earth, an alternative future comes into view. After the death of their father, two half-brothers find themselves on opposite sides of an escalating conflict with tragic consequences. on the Internet. Soil would be inadequate, insects and bees destroyed, and droughts and flooding would increase. And in that one shot, there was the whole of humanity with nothing else except the person that was in the spacecraft taking that picture. Landslides and floods would occur, but worse still, this thawing would release 1,400 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. My first visit to East Africa was in 1960. And that's because of the oceanic commons, as they say, the areas of the ocean in which anybody can do what they like. In my time, Ive experienced the warming of Arctic summers. Our closest relatives. Um, so, the world is not as wild as it was. The white color is caused by corals expelling algae that lives symbiotically within their body. Attenborough says, We run life on the planet to meet our own ends.. So, Dutch farmers have become expert at getting the most out of every hectare. Based on the comic book series by Mark Millar and Peter Gross. The forest is growing, flowers and fruit trees blossom, and wild animals visit. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. The future generations of many tree species would be at risk. We have overfished 30% of fish stocks to critical levels. We were apart from the rest of life on earth, living a different kind of life. The scale of the problem is so overwhelming . In Asia, the winds would create the monsoon on cue. But Chernobyl was a single event. 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. As much as 60% of farmland is devoted to beef production. Pripyat tells us otherwise. It seems that the human population will only really peak early in the 22nd century, at about 11 billion people. Well, weve destroyed it. Ice-free summers in the Arctic would also start. His passion for protecting diverse wildlife, and reclaiming our wilderness is palpable, and A Life on Our Planet is his "witness statement." However, these marvels of the underwater food chain have become rarer, owing to overfishing, and because of disruptions in the food chain, our oceans are dying. 'Prehistoric Planet' Renewed For Season 2 At Apple TV+ [Attenborough on video] Climbing over the tightly-packed bodies is the only way across the crowd. Great numbers of species disappear and are suddenly replaced by a few. For 65 million years, its been at work reconstructing the living world until we come to the world we know our time. He believes that we have The Planetary Boundaries model as our guide, and that we should be looking to it for inspiration. Small creatures called polyps, create reefs by building walls of calcium carbonate to protect their tiny forms, while the fantastic colors of a coral reef come from the algae in their tissues. But on the 26th of April, 1986, it suddenly became uninhabitable. However, Attenborough points out that vested interests will hold us back. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. When it comes to the land, we must radically reduce the area we use to farm, so that we can make space for returning wilderness. Since I started filming in the 1950s, on average, wild animal populations have more than halved. The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome, Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are, An Introductory Guide to Deeper States of Meditation, Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind. [imperceptible] Theyve always been a place beyond imagination with scenery unlike anything else on earth and unique species adapted to a life in the extreme. This is now our planet, run by humankind for humankind. 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. When you think about it, were completing a journey. You say 75% of the Amazon rainforest could be gone. 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. As a child, Attenborough enjoyed studying fossils. Baitfish are driven into tight balls by tuna, before they attack, then sharks and dolphins join the hunt; they're followed by gannets, and even a whale. Then watch the video and do the exercises. We also need to rebuild our seas to capture carbon, increase biodiversity and food supply. And I remember very well that first shot. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet - Transcript October 14, 2020 David Attenborough has seen more of the natural world than any other. Fast forward to 2021, and a far greater catastrophe looms. And a few years later, that idea became obvious to everyone. I'm quite sure. A Life on Our Planet. Tasks . This city in Ukraine was once home to almost 50,000 people. If we travel back to modern-day Pripyat, David Attenborough tells us that nature is once again asserting itself. And in life the animal itself lived in the chamber here and spread out its tentacles to catch its prey. We have to do our best. Algal forests would not attach to ice, damaging the ocean food chain. It's a statement of his past experiences, what will happen if our current destructive path continues, and what we need to do to rehabilitate our remarkable planet. Orangutan mothers have to spend ten years with their young, teaching them which fruits are worth eating. That is quite true. 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. Our greatest threat in thousands of years. Without this training, they would not complete their role in dispersing seeds. If there is no corner of the oceans which is safe from fishing vessels of one kind or another, we are heading for total elimination of the edible fish from the sea. We have arrived at locations expecting to find expanses of sea ice and found none. Large parts of the earth are uninhabitable. Otherwise, this is brilliant! Most of our diseases were under control. And we don't learn the lessons. David Attenborough. There was an edge to our existence. And we've exterminated the great fisheries. With all these things, there is one overriding principle. Levies and carbon taxes will go somewhere to shift this. By the 1980s, uncontrolled logging had reduced this to just one quarter. No ecosystem, no matter how big, is secure. 'David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet' Review: The - IndieWire 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. There was nothing left to restrict us. A boundary that marks a profound, rapid, global change. Journalist Jenny Eliscu and filmmaker Erin Lee Carr investigate Britney Spears fight for freedom by way of exclusive interviews and confidential evidence. Our cities will be cleaner and quieter. 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. Starring: David Attenborough Watch all you want. 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. These mass extinctions have occurred five times during our planet's four billion-year lifespan. Attenborough urges us to restore biodiversity. In the 1950s, Borneo was three-quarters covered with rainforest. However, if we had "no fishing" zones in one-third of the sea, our fish stocks could recover over the long term. A few millennia after this began, I grew up at exactly the right moment. Over time, I began to learn something about the earths evolutionary history. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet | Stories | WWF When fish stocks began to reduce, the Palauans responded by restricting fishing practices and banning fishing entirely from many areas. Attenborough's BBC production, The Blue Planet, changed this when its sophisticated camera equipment filmed a bait ball frenzy, a fantastic underwater hunt the likes of which no one had seen before. And that completely changed the mindset of the population, the human population of the world. 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. How many people can the Earth carry? Ten thousand years ago, as hunter-gatherers, we lived a sustainable life because that was the only option. The number that can be sustained on the natural resources available. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. And who knows what effect that will have on the world. We now have the opportunity to create the perfect home for ourselves, and restore the rich, healthy, and wonderful world that we inherited. Below the line are a multitude of lifeforms. [whales singing] Their mournful songs were the key to transforming peoples opinions about them. Large carnivores are rare in nature because it takes a lot of prey to support each of them. Our intelligence changed the way in which we evolved. Addeddate In 1971, I set out to find an uncontacted tribe in New Guinea. Fish populations crash. The worlds greatest wildlife reserve. Were certainly the most numerous large animal. The ocean bears the brunt of this because it absorbs the excess heat of global warming. Forests are a fundamental component of our planets recovery. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. Environmental economists are trying to address this. One Hundred Years of Solitude. SIMON: What does that mean? The biodiversity of the Holocene helped to bring stability, and the entire living world settled into a gentle, reliable rhythm the seasons. They had never seen the center of New Guinea before. This was before any of us were aware that there were problems. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020) - IMDb Starring: David Attenborough. And skeletal is precisely what these reefs were becoming. We also have to rewild mangroves, salt marshes, and kelp forests to restore biodiversity. Um, and I certainly would feel very guilty if I saw what the problems are and decided to ignore them. Life had no option but to rebuild. Millions of people rendered homeless. But we can make them the only source. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. I've seen it with my own eyes. Sir David, thanks so much for being with us. A story of global decline during a single lifetime. As nations develop everywhere, people choose to have fewer children. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. And suddenly, we realized, you know, we're there together, and we're alone. The film's grand achievement is that it positions its subject as a mediator between humans and the natural world. From Pripyat, a deserted area after the nuclear disaster, Attenborough gives an overview of his life. Air transport will be hugely problematic to solve, although electric and hydrogen planes are in the process of being developed. Required fields are marked *. David Attenborough COP26 Climate Summit Glasgow Speech Transcript - Rev Ocean life was also unravelling in the shallows. And we now had the means to make people across the world aware. We seem to have broken loose from the restrictions that have governed the activities and numbers of other animals. 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 living world is essentially solar-powered. Our Planet Jungles Teaching Resources | TPT He researched how the Earth had experienced massive eruptions at specific points, destroying many species. Humanitarian crises would result as people would be forced to relocate, triggering border conflict. Follow him @davidattenborough. We are Canadian. Nature is our biggest ally and our greatest inspiration. Weitere Details. Coral reefs were turning white. And yet, this is what weve been turning this dizzying diversity into. One of the extraordinary things about it was that the world could actually watch it as it happened. Within the span of the next lifetime, the security and stability of the Holocene, our Garden of Eden will be lost. And there I was, actually being asked to explore these places and record the wonders of the natural world for people back home. And of course, if we increase our wilderness areas, we have a natural way of capturing carbon. And we were responsible. It was a brutal and unpredictable world. It was a great place to come to as a boy, because this is, um, ironstone workings, but it was disused. There were twice the number of people on the planet as there were when I was born. Huge herds on the plains have kept the grasslands rich and productive by fertilizing the soils. And because we would be then dedicated to raising plants, we could increase the yield of this land substantially. The longer they have to wait for the ice to return, the more they use up their fat supplies. A marked change in atmospheric carbon has always been incompatible with a stable earth. Preparation task . 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. Accuracy and availability may vary. It worked out the secret of life long ago. A monoculture of oil palm. The most remote habitat of all exists at the extreme north and south of the planet. Just imagine that. Thank you so much for being with us. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Above, very few. Netflix's 'David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet' Is The Most David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020) - Plot - IMDb The nearby nuclear power station of Chernobyl exploded. Executive-produced by his sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. The healthier the marine habitat, the more fish there will be, and the more there will be to eat. Our home was not limitless. 'David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet' Review: Ruin and Regrowth The true tragedy of our time is still unfolding across the globe, barely noticeable from day to day. All rights reserved. The world population was 2.3 billion, the carbon in the atmosphere was 280 parts per million, and the remaining wilderness was 66%. It took a visionary scientist, Bernhard Grzimek, to explain that this wasnt true. [Attenborough] Ive been lucky enough to spend my life exploring the wild places of our planet. Governments need to offer financial incentives to create wilderness areas or involve local communities that can benefit from rewilding. Again, the two features work together. Humpbacks living in the same area learn their songs from each other. Nobody wanted animals to become extinct. Trailer: David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. 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. Farms take up a combined space the size of North America, South America, and Australia combined, with devastating greenhouse gas emissions. Imagine if we phase out fossil fuels and run our world on the eternal energies of nature too. 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 renewable energy will never run out. Iceland, Albania, and Paraguay generate their electricity without fossil fuels. The cod fishery, I mean, we exterminated that from the Atlantic. And powerful evidence that however grave our mistakes, nature will ultimately overcome them. To move from being apart from nature to becoming a part of nature once again. Ive experienced the living world firsthand in all its variety and wonder. The thing we rely upon for every element of the lives we lead. The white corals are ultimately smothered by seaweed. Japans standard of living climbed rapidly in the latter half of the 20th century. 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. It was shot in 39 countries. The planet cant support billions of large meat-eaters. 70% of the mass of birds on this planet are domestic birds. Sir David Attenborough to 60 Minutes on climate change: "A crime has [Attenborough] I was in a television studio when the Apollo mission launched. The Masai in Kenya engages in projects to reduce their cattle herds and develop wildlife. Half of the fertile land on earth is now farmland. Working with their traditional technology, they were living sustainably, a lifestyle that could continue effectively forever. And the idea could be passed from one generation to the next. Theyd never seen sloths before. Skeletons of dead creatures. David Attenborough has seen more of the natural world than any other. A Life on Our Planet is a masterpiece that explores the life and legacy of natural historian and national treasure David Attenborough. But within only a few years, the nets across the globe were coming in empty. The natural world is, fading, he writes. The largest whales, the blues, numbered only a few thousand by then. By burning millions of years worth of living organisms all at once as coal and oil, we had managed to do so in less than 200. Global food production enters a crisis as soils become exhausted by overuse. Yet, theyve removed 90% of the large fish in the sea. Thats the sort of commitment you need if you want to even begin making a portrait of the living world. Protected fish populations soon became so healthy, they spilt over into the areas open to fishing. As a result, female polar bears are giving birth to smaller cubs, and these underweight cubs are less likely to survive. If we continue on our current course, the damage that has been the defining feature of my lifetime will be eclipsed by the damage coming in the next. The result is that the population has now stabilized and has hardly changed since the millennium. The start of my career in my 20s coincided with the advent of global air travel. A powerful shared conscience had suddenly appeared. The point for me was simple: the wild is far from unlimited. on October 24, 2021. Fewer trees and more carbon in the atmosphere would escalate global warming significantly. After moving his family into his childhood home, a man's investigation into a local factory accident connected to his father unveils dark family secrets. You can see it. Against the backdrop of the WWII battle known as Hitler's first defeat, a Norwegian soldier returns home and learns a shocking truth about his wife. But if you get in a helicopter, you see that that is a strip about half a mile wide. Instructions Preparation David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet | Official Trailer | Netflix Watch on Transcript Task 1 Task 2 Discussion Have you seen any of David Attenborough's films? Its all happened within the last 2,000 years or so. We all need to change our mindset, and we need to implement a new order right now. Its entirely possible for us to apply both low-tech and hi-tech solutions to produce much more food from much less land. [thunder rumbling] And the weather is more and more unpredictable. I look at these images now and I realize that, although as a young man I felt I was out there in the wild experiencing the untouched natural world it was an illusion. This most pristine and distant of ecosystems is headed for disaster. Nature, once again, had to start again. Apple TV+ has renewed the award-winning natural history series from executive producers Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton and BBC Studios Natural History Unit (Planet Earth). [1] Initially scheduled for cinematic release on 16 April 2020, the film was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It seems possible for us to feed ourselves quite happily using half the land we currently use. Bookmark File Stuck On Earth David Klass Pdf Free Copy - lindungibumi.bayer It will survive. If we want to, we can kill almost anything in the sea that we wish. Plankton would also be destroyed by the acid, affecting the entire food chain. In 1937, at age 11, he would cycle from his home in Leicester into the countryside to study fossils in the rocks. And sadly, we don't only deplete our fish. The wilder and more diverse forests are, the more effective they are at absorbing carbon from the atmosphere. In 1950, a Japanese family was likely to have three or more children. The last time it happened was the event that brought the end of the age of the dinosaurs. The herrings have disappeared from the North Sea. Still, energy use, production, transport, farming, and telecommunication have also shown their sinister side. Starring: David Attenborough. It was going to bring everything we had ever dreamed of. Unless we stopped ourselves. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Leading lives that interlock in such a way that they sustain each other. Since the Second World War, what's known as the "Great Acceleration" has brought us many progressive things, as our GDPs indicate. Many people regarded it as the most costly in the history of mankind. This alga is vital because it's the start of the Arctic and Antarctic food chains. ATTENBOROUGH: That means that nothing is safe. A key reason the population is still growing is because many of us are living longer. Population growth peaked in about 1962. For. The government decided to act, offering grants to land owners to replant native trees. Raising yields tenfold in two generations while at the same time using less water, fewer pesticides, less fertilizer and emitting less carbon. Even one as vast as the ocean. The trick is to raise the standard of living around the world without increasing our impact on that world.