One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. The resources they used naturally renewed themselves. And then you clear that furthermore for cattle. And this is what they saw what we all saw. This begs the question, 'What will the next 100 years look like if we dont change?'. The true tragedy of our time is still unfolding across the globe, barely noticeable from day to day. 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. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. The pace of change was getting faster and faster. Haunted by an unsolved murder, brilliant but disgraced London police detective John Luther breaks out of prison to hunt down a sadistic serial killer. Its rhythm of seasons was so reliable that it gave our own species a unique opportunity. In 1998, a Blue Planet film crew stumbled on an event little known at the time. A few millennia after this began, I grew up at exactly the right moment. It was designed for employees working at Chernobyl, a nearby nuclear plant. Then watch the video and do the exercises. An in-depth, sobering look at the tragic events of a century ago. [Attenborough] At the turn of the century, Morocco relied on imported oil and gas for almost all of its energy. All these years later, its once again the only option. Increasingly, theyre doing so sustainably. The nearby nuclear power station of Chernobyl exploded. But within only a few years, the nets across the globe were coming in empty. No one has lived here since. 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). Ice-free summers in the Arctic would also start. [Attenborough] Ive been lucky enough to spend my life exploring the wild places of our planet. 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. 1978 WORLD POPULATION: 4.3 BILLION CARBON IN ATMOSPHERE: 335 PARTS PER MILLION REMAINING WILDERNESS: 55%. Without this training, they would not complete their role in dispersing seeds. [exclaiming in surprise] And Im still learning. 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 ocean is a critical ally in our battle to reduce carbon in the atmosphere. For 65 million years, its been at work reconstructing the living world until we come to the world we know our time. 75% of all species were wiped out. You write, for example, we have become too skilled at fishing. 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. 2020 | Maturity rating: 7+ | 1h 23m | Nature & Ecology Documentaries. Wherever I went, there was wilderness. [whales singing] [whales continue singing]. A 12-year-old boy learns he's the returned Jesus Christ, destined to save humankind. 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. Over time, I began to learn something about the earths evolutionary history. I mean, we have completely well, destroyed that world. 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. Which is why weve cut down three trillion trees across the world. And as the natural environment fails, pandemics are likely to increase. A world that demanded more every day. This is a series of one-way doors bringing irreversible change. And of course, if we increase our wilderness areas, we have a natural way of capturing carbon. And then we will suddenly discover that suddenly the seas are almost empty. The more diverse it is, the better it does that job. 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. 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. In this trailer, he talks about his documentary . You saw a blue marble, a blue sphere in the blackness, and you realized that that was the earth. Without large fish and other marine predators, the oceanic nutrient cycle stutters. We will finally learn how to work with nature rather than against it. 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. I am David Attenborough, and I am 93. The United Nations and World Trade Organisation are trying to establish new rules in international waters, which are notoriously overfished by large nations. And we're on the danger of doing that. We invented farming. He researched how the Earth had experienced massive eruptions at specific points, destroying many species. In just 25 years, the forest has returned to cover half of Costa Rica once again. And it lived about 180 million years ago. David Attenborough is a famous British naturalist. Our closest relatives. 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. Levies and carbon taxes will go somewhere to shift this. Because what youre looking at is skeletons. Energy everywhere will be more affordable. Great numbers of species disappear and are suddenly replaced by a few. Offline ansehen. If theres any justice in the world, Marcel Ophls monumental labor will be studied and debated for years. The government decided to act, offering grants to land owners to replant native trees. But, the moral of the story is indeed a positive one. Filmmaker Sir David Attenborough has been documenting the natural world since the 1950s. And beyond that strip, there is nothing but regimented rows of oil palms. Ive seen it with my own eyes. How did that change our view of the world? All this was absolutely clear, it was only just stopped being a working quarry. The cod fishery, I mean, we exterminated that from the Atlantic. After all, theres plenty of it. Leading lives that interlock in such a way that they sustain each other. "No fishing" zones cover less than 7% of the ocean. [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. We are Canadian. So, what do we do? We had worked out how to produce food to order. The last time it happened was the event that brought the end of the age of the dinosaurs. David Attenborough is a famous British naturalist. Addeddate It was extraordinary that you could see what a man out in space could see as he saw it at the same time. The Amazon rainforest could suffer from "forest dieback" and be starved of moisture, becoming an open savannah and destroying its biodiversity. And I remember very well that first shot. For a long time, I and perhaps you have dreaded that future. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. It seems utterly impossible that after such a devastating environmental disaster, there would be any kind of happy ending. We cant cut down rainforests forever, and anything that we cant do forever is by definition unsustainable. For example, the Costa Rican government offered farmers grants to replant indigenous trees twenty-five years ago. You can see 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. As healthcare and education improved, peoples expectations and opportunities grew, and the birth rate fell. According to Attenborough, the 22nd century could herald massive enforced human migration. And the speed of global warming increases. As Attenborough cautions, the bleached coral is like canaries in a coal mine. Starring: David Attenborough. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. You can be in one spot on the Serengeti, and the place is totally empty of animals, and then, the next morning [bellowing] one million wildebeest. SIMON: So what gives you hope? urgency ? We account for over one-third of the weight of mammals on earth. We eat 50 billion chickens a year and feed them with soy planted on deforested land. The Masai in Kenya engages in projects to reduce their cattle herds and develop wildlife. Weve come this far because we are the smartest creatures that have ever lived. 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 suddenly, we realized, you know, we're there together, and we're alone. The forest is growing, flowers and fruit trees blossom, and wild animals visit. Tonight, weve got a rather different program for you. It had everything a community would need for a comfortable life. In 1998, a Blue Planet film crew discovered that the beautiful colors of the coral reefs were turning to skeletal chalky white. Without predators, nutrients are lost for centuries to the depths and the hot spots start to diminish. Required fields are marked *. web pages Weitere Details. That without such an immense space, the herds would diminish and the entire ecosystem would come crashing down. 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. A century from now, our planet could be a wild place again. We have pursued animals to extinction many times in our history, but now that it was visible, it was no longer acceptable. More recently, you may have heard of Pripyat from the HBO series Chernobyl? [indistinct chatter] [1] Initially scheduled for cinematic release on 16 April 2020, the film was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Attenborough says, We run life on the planet to meet our own ends.. And the extent of the polar ice has been critical, reflecting sunlight back off its white surface, cooling the whole earth. With David Attenborough, Max Hughes. And powerful evidence that however grave our mistakes, nature will ultimately overcome them. Our intelligence changed the way in which we evolved. Their solution is to climb higher up the cliffs, but with their poor eyesight, they often fall from the tops of cliffs as the smell of the sea lures them closer. In this trailer, he talks about his documentary A Life on Our Planet. The herrings have disappeared from the North Sea. We remember environmental disasters, but do we actually learn from them? Hence, if we suffer the fallout of a natural disaster, we take notice of the planet. This truth defined the life we led in our pre-history, the time before farming and civilization. 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. However, here's a curveball. As a result, female polar bears are giving birth to smaller cubs, and these underweight cubs are less likely to survive. And they are centers of biodiversity. The orangutan. If we want to, we can kill almost anything in the sea that we wish. This city in Ukraine was once home to almost 50,000 people. You say 75% of the Amazon rainforest could be gone. He has perpetually been on the road ever since. A moment ago, we made this recording with an underwater microphone here in the Pacific near Hawaii. It was a brutal and unpredictable world. Um and, in a way, I wish I wasnt involved in this struggle. It was a great place to come to as a boy, because this is, um, ironstone workings, but it was disused. In 1937, at age 11, he would cycle from his home in Leicester into the countryside to study fossils in the rocks. A knight framed for a crime he didn't commit turns to a shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence. After the death of their father, two half-brothers find themselves on opposite sides of an escalating conflict with tragic consequences. People had never seen pangolins before on television. The ocean bears the brunt of this because it absorbs the excess heat of global warming. Jonnie Hughes served as director and producer, as he has on Attenborough's documentaries since 2000. The deforestation of Borneo has reduced the population of orangutan by two-thirds since I first saw one just over 60 years ago. Follow him @davidattenborough. But during his lifetime, Attenborough has also seen first-hand the monumental scale of humanity's impact on nature. [Attenborough] It was a stark contrast to the world I knew. A few days after that and theyre gone over the horizon. By 1975, the average was two. Focusing on a specific period, from the birth of Black Wall Street to its catastrophic downfall over the course of two bloody days, and finally the fallout and reconstruction. However, as it does this, carbon dioxide changes into carbonic acid. The trick is to raise the standard of living around the world without increasing our impact on that world. 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. You knock down a rainforest tree, and you get a lot of money from the timber which you sell. But it was noticeable that some of these animals were becoming harder to find. We found humpbacks off Hawaii only by listening out for their calls. 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. It revealed a cold reality. 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. Ive had the most extraordinary life. Nobody wanted animals to become extinct. It seems that the human population will only really peak early in the 22nd century, at about 11 billion people. Coral reefs don't like acid, and 90% of our reefs could die off in a few years. Today, forests cover half of Costa Rica. 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. One of the extraordinary things about it was that the world could actually watch it as it happened. 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. We all need to change our mindset, and we need to implement a new order right now. So when he asks that people heed his "witness statement" about the peril humans . A powerful shared conscience had suddenly appeared. A Life on Our Planet is a masterpiece that explores the life and legacy of natural historian and national treasure David Attenborough. Then watch the video and do the exercises. At 93, Sir David Attenborough has spent a lifetime studying the natural world, and been knighted for his efforts. Its an achingly intricate labor. Fishers survived on food vouchers but kept the faith, and today, marine life in that area has increased by more than 400%. Imagine if we phase out fossil fuels and run our world on the eternal energies of nature too. As Attenborough says: 'We regard the Earth as our planet, run by mankind for mankind.' The largest whales, the blues, numbered only a few thousand by then. Humanitarian crises would result as people would be forced to relocate, triggering border conflict. David Attenborough has seen more of the natural world than any other. Its all happened within the last 2,000 years or so. The only way to keep them alive was for rangers to be with them every day. Mangroves and coral reefs along thousands of miles of coast have harbored nurseries of fish species that, when mature, then range into open waters. David Attenborough. Starring: David Attenborough Watch all you want. SIMON: I feel the need to take up some of the very practical points that you raise in this book. The very thing that gave birth to our civilization. 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. SIMON: You were a BBC executive in the control room when the first pictures of Earth were sent back by the Apollo 8 crew. The natural world is fading. Every one has a critical role to play. watch for yourself. 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. We now have the opportunity to create the perfect home for ourselves, and restore the rich, healthy, and wonderful world that we inherited.