david attenborough: a life on our planet transcript

At first, the cause of the bleaching was a mystery. Our blind assault on the planet has finally come to alter the very fundamentals of the living world. And then you clear that furthermore for cattle. 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. [chuckles] Because I wish the struggle wasnt there or necessary. We have arrived at locations expecting to find expanses of sea ice and found none. A 12-year-old boy learns he's the returned Jesus Christ, destined to save humankind. Many experts wrote off Pripyat, and many of us are apathetic about the future of the planet. Attenborough launched an official Instagram account on Thursday, Sept. 24, in support of the film. Fishing is worlds greatest wild harvest. Then watch the video and do the exercises. Air transport will be hugely problematic to solve, although electric and hydrogen planes are in the process of being developed. So let's go back to the beginning of this summary. Sir David,. And when the government of Brazil is saying that that's what they actually want to happen because knocking down the rainforest is a very good (ph) way to get a quick buck. Or is that question not called for under the circumstances? 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. Polar bears need ice as the launching pads for hunting. A habitat that is dead in comparison. You can see it. Humanitarian crises would result as people would be forced to relocate, triggering border conflict. "No fishing" zones cover less than 7% of the ocean. Furthermore, less ice means that the Arctic would be unable to cool the planet down. Since the Second World War, what's known as the "Great Acceleration" has brought us many progressive things, as our GDPs indicate. 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. [whales singing] Their mournful songs were the key to transforming peoples opinions about them. There is no international law at the moment to stop it. We can start to produce food in new spaces. In the past, animals had to develop some physical ability to change their lives. Without the white ice cap, less of the suns energy is reflected back out to space. If we fast-forward to 2020, a mere 83 years later, the statistics are disheartening. Yet, we're nowhere near the stage where our population has stopped growing. Whole habitats would soon start to disappear. Sir David Attenborough Has A Dire Message About The Earth's Future Right now, were facing a manmade disaster of global scale. Yet, theyve removed 90% of the large fish in the sea. Uploaded by An in-depth, sobering look at the tragic events of a century ago. In his more recent travels, Attenborough noticed fishers using mosquito nets in the hope of catching something to eat. They are the best technology nature has for locking away carbon. [groaning] Those beneath can get crushed to death. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. on October 24, 2021. And I believe we can do our best. The living world is essentially solar-powered. watch for yourself. By the 1980s, uncontrolled logging had reduced this to just one quarter. Farming would be pushed to a crisis point. For 65 million years, its been at work reconstructing the living world until we come to the world we know our time. The killing of whales turned from a harvest to a crime. One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. David Attenborough A Life On Our Planet 2020 An important documentary that everyone should watch. For. We must rewild the world. Saving individual species or even groups of species would not be enough. This city in Ukraine was once home to almost 50,000 people. Theyd never seen sloths before. So there's not a profit in it, we still go killing it, and they throw a heck of a lot of it back. The wealthiest 16% in the world are responsible for almost 50% of the environmental impact. And the changes we have to make will only benefit ourselves and the generations that follow. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020) - Plot - IMDb 1997 WORLD POPULATION: 5.9 BILLION CARBON IN ATMOSPHERE: 360 PARTS PER MILLION REMAINING WILDERNESS: 46%. A century ago, more than three quarters of Costa Rica was covered with forest. A knight framed for a crime he didn't commit turns to a shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence. Skeletons of dead creatures. If we dont take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon. You put crops on the land and get another reward. Attenborough is now 94, and throughout his long life, has watched the natural world wither before his eyes. Thats almost 20 times the energy we need just from sunlight. Not just ruined it. Its finite. [Attenborough] They ate meat rarely. Tonight, weve got a rather different program for you. There are signs that this has started to happen across the globe. David Attenborough is a famous British naturalist. The living world cant operate without a healthy ocean and neither can we. And you could happily retire. Indoors, within cities. 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. They were virtually impossible to find. The most remote habitat of all exists at the extreme north and south of the planet. 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. Our impact now truly profound. The healthier the marine habitat, the more fish there will be, and the more there will be to eat. Increasingly, theyre doing so sustainably. Many new plant-based foods are on the market, and in the future, biotechnology may be able to use microorganisms to provide us with proteins. The future generations of many tree species would be at risk. 2021 Scraps from the Loft. People were coming to care for the natural world. SIMON: You're 94, but I have to ask, for all you have seen - almost a century - in times that have been bleak, where does this moment rank? I think the sudden sight that there were two people way out there, high up in the sky looking at the Earth from a distance where the whole globe was within one picture was an extraordinary realization, not only of the smallness of the planet but its isolation. Half of the fertile land on earth is now farmland. Our imprint is now truly global. This was before any of us were aware that there were problems. But during his lifetime, Attenborough has also seen first-hand the monumental scale of humanity's impact on nature. Nobody wanted animals to become extinct. Thank you for the feedback, the missing data has been added and incorrect year amended. Ive had the most extraordinary life. David Attenborough is a famous British naturalist. Were certainly the most numerous large animal. 'David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet' Review: Ruin and Regrowth A Life on Our Planet Quotes by David Attenborough - Goodreads Many people regarded it as the most costly in the history of mankind. The result is that the population has now stabilized and has hardly changed since the millennium. Sir David, thanks so much for being with us. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. 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. But on the 26th of April, 1986, it suddenly became uninhabitable. We had very little understanding of how the living world actually worked. A marked change in atmospheric carbon has always been incompatible with a stable earth. If herds of animals couldn't travel to new grazing, they, along with predators, would starve. None of us can afford for it to happen. Today, it generates 40% of its needs at home from a network of renewable power plants, including the worlds largest solar farm. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. 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 suddenly, we realized, you know, we're there together, and we're alone. "A Life on Our Planet" is as much a love story, a requiem, and a final request as it is a film about deforestation, overfishing, exponential population grown, and the various other culprits. And a few years later, that idea became obvious to everyone. In 1998, a Blue Planet film crew discovered that the beautiful colors of the coral reefs were turning to skeletal chalky white. Summer sea ice in the Arctic has reduced by 40% in 40 years. In the process, they also provide us with simple solutions to saving our planet before it is too late. We have to do our best. But its possible to slow, even to stop population growth well before it reaches that point. The rest, from mice to whales, make up just 4%. Why wouldnt we want to do these things? 2020 | Maturity Rating: PG | 1h 23m | Documentary Films. This film is my witness statement and my vision for the future, the story of how we came to make this our greatest mistake, and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right. But that rainforest is one of the key elements in the whole of the weather patterns of the world. Renewable energy, such as solar, wind, and water, could supply power. The problem is that our fishing fleets are just as good at finding those hot spots as are the fish. And there, only a few yards away, we spotted a great furry red form swaying in the trees. And yet, this is what weve been turning this dizzying diversity into. Landslides and floods would occur, but worse still, this thawing would release 1,400 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. Attenborough urges us to restore biodiversity. In this . In the northern regions, the temperatures would lift in March, triggering spring, and stay high until they dipped in October and brought about autumn. But what if Nimona is the monster he's sworn to kill? In this world, a species can only thrive when everything else around it thrives, too. If we do things that are unsustainable, the damage accumulates ultimately to a point where the whole system collapses. A Life on Our Planet - Wikipedia And it relies on its biodiversity to run smoothly. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet . All we need is the will to do so. And the extent of the polar ice has been critical, reflecting sunlight back off its white surface, cooling the whole earth. Attenborough's wildlife journey started at a young age. Complete the sentences with words from the . But it was noticeable that some of these animals were becoming harder to find. Amid planet's crisis, filmmaker Sir David Attenborough's 'vision for All rights reserved. The resources they used naturally renewed themselves. But during his lifetime, Attenborough has also seen first-hand the monumental scale of humanity's impact on nature. SIMON: Sir David Attenborough - his book, along with his co-author Jonnie Hughes, is "A Life On Our Planet." The cod fishery, I mean, we exterminated that from the Atlantic. 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. SIMON: You were a BBC executive in the control room when the first pictures of Earth were sent back by the Apollo 8 crew. 70% of the mass of birds on this planet are domestic birds. And beyond that strip, there is nothing but regimented rows of oil palms. 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. [Attenborough] By working hard to raise people out of poverty, giving all access to healthcare, and enabling girls in particular to stay in school as long as possible, we can make it peak sooner and at a lower level. He believes that we have The Planetary Boundaries model as our guide, and that we should be looking to it for inspiration. Fishers survived on food vouchers but kept the faith, and today, marine life in that area has increased by more than 400%. Its happened in my lifetime. Required fields are marked *. That without such an immense space, the herds would diminish and the entire ecosystem would come crashing down. The cycle of destruction continues as the sea life is trapped by or ingests this waste. Sunlight, wind, water and geothermal. Thank you so much for being with us. The ocean covers 70% of our planet's surface, and it's where all forms of life began. And we don't learn the lessons. It revealed a cold reality. The natural world will survive. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet - Netflix It will survive. The Second World War was over, technology was making our lives easier. He researched how the Earth had experienced massive eruptions at specific points, destroying many species. 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. The global air temperature had been relatively stable till the 90s. . If theres any justice in the world, Marcel Ophls monumental labor will be studied and debated for years. 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. It was designed for employees working at Chernobyl, a nearby nuclear plant. It's happening already. We humans cannot presume the same. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet - netflix.com In just 25 years, the forest has returned to cover half of Costa Rica once again. Ive traveled to every part of the globe. PDF David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet - British Council Many of the millions of species in the forest exist in small numbers. In international waters, the UN is attempting to create the biggest no fish zone of all. And renewable energy will never run out. This model outlines nine critical thresholds, or planetary boundaries, such as climate change, air pollution, land conversion, and biodiversity loss. 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. But lines blur when a key informant makes a big ask. So it's very profitable in the short term. This begs the question, 'What will the next 100 years look like if we dont change?'. All these years later, its once again the only option. And as the natural environment fails, pandemics are likely to increase. thank you soo much this script was very good, Your email address will not be published. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet - Wikipedia Its a sanctuary for wild animals that are very rare elsewhere.