david attenborough: a life on our planet transcript

There were twice the number of people on the planet as there were when I was born. ATTENBOROUGH: Well, it could be gone. Which is why weve cut down three trillion trees across the world. In the end, after a lifetimes exploration of the living world, Im certain of one thing. The result is that the population has now stabilized and has hardly changed since the millennium. By the time Frozen Planet aired in 2011, the reasons for these changes was well established. With this in mind, David Attenborough has dedicated his life to educating us about our planet, and making discourses visible, through his captivating storytelling. A renewable future will be full of benefits. Download Worksheet Language level Coral reefs don't like acid, and 90% of our reefs could die off in a few years. And if we do it right, it can continue because theres a win-win at play. And that completely changed the mindset of the population, the human population of the world. The world population sits at 7.8 billion, the carbon in the atmosphere is 415 parts per million, and shockingly the remaining wilderness is 35%. Since I started filming in the 1950s, on average, wild animal populations have more than halved. It revealed a cold reality. The biodiversity of the Holocene helped to bring stability, and the entire living world settled into a gentle, reliable rhythm the seasons. It seems utterly impossible that after such a devastating environmental disaster, there would be any kind of happy ending. The Maasai word Serengeti means endless plains. To those who live here, its an apt description. Humpbacks living in the same area learn their songs from each other. Every one has a critical role to play. Indoors, within cities. This trajectory is unsustainable, and the Great Acceleration will inevitably result in a "Great Decline.". I am David Attenborough, and I am 93. However, here's a curveball. Unless we stopped ourselves. The white color is caused by corals expelling algae that lives symbiotically within their body. Its only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. David Attenborough is a famous British naturalist. Narrated by David Attenborough, the five-episode second season will premiere globally in a five-day week-long event beginning May 22 on Apple [] However, if we had "no fishing" zones in one-third of the sea, our fish stocks could recover over the long term. We account for over one-third of the weight of mammals on earth. Nature, once again, had to start again. David Attenborough became a household name in 1979 with his ground-breaking BBC series, "Life On Earth," which was seen by an estimated 500 million people worldwide. 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. ATTENBOROUGH: I don't think it is a responsible thing to do is to simply say that what we see the future, it's very dangerous, and to hell with it. Let me just ask you about the 2030s. You can see it. He and his son used a plane to follow the herds over the horizon. 1978 WORLD POPULATION: 4.3 BILLION CARBON IN ATMOSPHERE: 335 PARTS PER MILLION REMAINING WILDERNESS: 55%. I first witnessed the destruction of an entire habitat in Southeast Asia. With all these things, there is one overriding principle. 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. Our impact now truly profound. 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.' Its finite. Billions of individuals, and millions of kinds of plants and animals [birds chirping] dazzling in their variety and richness. This model outlines nine critical thresholds, or planetary boundaries, such as climate change, air pollution, land conversion, and biodiversity loss. We can solve the problems we now face by embracing this reality. 1954 WORLD POPULATION: 2.7 BILLION CARBON IN ATMOSPHERE: 310 PARTS PER MILLION REMAINING WILDERNESS: 64%. None of us can afford for it to happen. This begs the question, 'What will the next 100 years look like if we dont change?'. He has perpetually been on the road ever since. Nature will take any chance to reclaim some space. A speed of change that exceeds any in the last 10,000 years. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. We humans cannot presume the same. The ocean is a critical ally in our battle to reduce carbon in the atmosphere. Attenborough is famous for many of the truly epic natural history documentaries on our planet. And we were responsible. Its happened in my lifetime. Our cities will be cleaner and quieter. He believes that we have The Planetary Boundaries model as our guide, and that we should be looking to it for inspiration. But scientists started to discover that in many cases where bleaching occurred, the ocean was warming. The 'why' behind this, points to global warming. The future was going to be exciting. Half of the fertile land on Earth is currently farmed, and it's often overgrazed, over-sprayed with pesticides, and denuded of topsoil. What we see happening today is just the latest chapter in a global process spanning millennia. 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. Half a million gazelle. The explosion was a result of bad planning and human error. Its crazy that our banks and our pensions are investing in fossil fuel when these are the very things that are jeopardizing the future that we are saving for. In his latest book and film, "A Life on Our Planet," he offers a grave and alarming assessment about . The Holocene was our Garden of Eden. Many of the millions of species in the forest exist in small numbers. Nature is our biggest ally and our greatest inspiration. As we improve our approach to farming, well start to reverse the land-grab that weve been pursuing ever since we began to farm, which is essential because we have an urgent need for all that free land. Ice-free summers in the Arctic would also start. 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). Journalist Jenny Eliscu and filmmaker Erin Lee Carr investigate Britney Spears fight for freedom by way of exclusive interviews and confidential evidence. The longer they have to wait for the ice to return, the more they use up their fat supplies. Its a sanctuary for wild animals that are very rare elsewhere. And then, every hundred million years or so, after all those painstaking processes, something catastrophic happens, a mass extinction. An amazing and delicate web of connected relationships exists everywhere, particularly in rainforests. Yet, theyve removed 90% of the large fish in the sea. I wasn't prepared for it. In such places, huge shoals of fish gather. ATTENBOROUGH: Well, I think it changed everybody's view. Whole habitats would soon start to disappear. This alga is vital because it's the start of the Arctic and Antarctic food chains. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. And the extent of the polar ice has been critical, reflecting sunlight back off its white surface, cooling the whole earth. A monoculture of oil palm. In the 1950s, Borneo was three-quarters covered with rainforest. We pull out 80 million tonnes of seafood every year, only to replace it with plastic. Sample Page; ; The herrings have disappeared from the North Sea. A knight framed for a crime he didn't commit turns to a shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence. But somehow, it really changed the attitude of people. We seem to have broken loose from the restrictions that have governed the activities and numbers of other animals. More than half of the species on land live here. 1937 WORLD POPULATION: 2.3 BILLION CARBON IN ATMOSPHERE: 280 PARTS PER MILLION REMAINING WILDERNESS: 66%. Those forests and plains and seas were already emptying. However, this time it included humans in its design. Politicians and corporates have to overcome vested interests and work towards the greater good. Emmy-winning narrator David Attenborough ("Our Planet," "Planet Earth II") looks back and shares a way forward. Its rhythm of seasons was so reliable that it gave our own species a unique opportunity. But the longer we leave it, the more difficult itll be to do something about it. And the songs have distinct themes and variations which evolve over time. We had worked out how to produce food to order. [1] Initially scheduled for cinematic release on 16 April 2020, the film was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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. When you think about it, were completing a journey. No one wants this to happen. A century ago, more than three quarters of Costa Rica was covered with forest. 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. Yet, we're nowhere near the stage where our population has stopped growing. 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. Videos David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. Great numbers of species disappear and are suddenly replaced by a few. The living world will endure. And the quickest and most effective way to do that is for us to change our diet. As a child, Attenborough enjoyed studying fossils. And who knows what effect that will have on the world. As a result, female polar bears are giving birth to smaller cubs, and these underweight cubs are less likely to survive. But to continue, we require more than intelligence. Furthermore, less ice means that the Arctic would be unable to cool the planet down. A key reason the population is still growing is because many of us are living longer. One of the significant findings was that we pay attention to the environment when it affects us. We have pursued animals to extinction many times in our history, but now that it was visible, it was no longer acceptable. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. We will finally learn how to work with nature rather than against it. But on the 26th of April, 1986, it suddenly became uninhabitable. Half of the worlds rainforests have already been cleared. A few days after that and theyre gone over the horizon. There are something like 4,000 million of us today, and weve reached this position with meteoric speed. Algal forests would not attach to ice, damaging the ocean food chain. A century from now, our planet could be a wild place again. It was designed for employees working at Chernobyl, a nearby nuclear plant. But you now want to explain to us what peril we are in. 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. 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. By the 1980s, uncontrolled logging had reduced this to just one quarter. 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. Hence, if we suffer the fallout of a natural disaster, we take notice of the planet. And it relies on its biodiversity to run smoothly. If the ice disappears, so does the algae that grow underneath. Fossils. So, how do we recognize critical thresholds? SIMON: You advocate what you call no-fish zones. [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. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. All we need is the will to do so. SIMON: What does that mean? Uh The Human beings have overrun the world. as they were made aware of the natural world. Again, the two features work together. In the past, animals had to develop some physical ability to change their lives. 2021 Scraps from the Loft. In the 1950s, Bernhard Grzimek, a German scientist, realized that wildlife was under threat in the Serengeti and needed the entire expanse of the plains to survive. And there I was, actually being asked to explore these places and record the wonders of the natural world for people back home. One of the greatest films ever made, The Sorrow and The Pity is a contribution to history, to social psychology, to anthropology, and to art. Its covered with small family-run farms with no room for expansion. You say in this book, with us or without us ATTENBOROUGH: Oh, well, yes. authoritarian parents often quizlet; worley sustainability; joshua blake pettitte; arizona snowbowl ikon pass; upadhyay caste obc or general; when do baby . This is a series of one-way doors bringing irreversible change. So there's not a profit in it, we still go killing it, and they throw a heck of a lot of it back. 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. . David Attenborough, Our Planet 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. 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. However, as it does this, carbon dioxide changes into carbonic acid. Every other species on Earth reaches a maximum population after a time. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. 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. [reindeer grunting] [birds hooting] [buffalo snorting] [birds cawing] [elephants trumpeting]. In addition to this, we have an increased life expectancy. Copyright 2020 NPR. Instead, cover crops are planted after harvest to protect the soil, and crops are rotated. The Second World War was over, technology was making our lives easier. urgency ? This is now our planet, run by humankind for humankind. One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. [Attenborough] It felt that nothing would limit our progress. 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. Weve managed to travel by boat to islands that were impossible to get to historically because they were permanently locked in the ice. And in life the animal itself lived in the chamber here and spread out its tentacles to catch its prey. The natural world is, fading, he writes. 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). Tonight, weve got a rather different program for you. Japans standard of living climbed rapidly in the latter half of the 20th century. [groaning] Those beneath can get crushed to death. A moment ago, we made this recording with an underwater microphone here in the Pacific near Hawaii. They are the best technology nature has for locking away carbon. It had everything a community would need for a comfortable life. But during his lifetime, Attenborough has also seen first-hand the monumental scale of humanity's impact on nature. The ocean has long since become unable to absorb all the excess heat caused by our activities. 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. The killing of whales turned from a harvest to a crime. There is little left for the rest of the living world. Sunlight, wind, water and geothermal. Baby gorillas were at a premium, and poachers would kill a dozen adults to get one. These simple statistics speak as eloquently for our planet as our author does. Its the only way out of this crisis we have created. In Asia, the winds would create the monsoon on cue. And the idea could be passed from one generation to the next. In this summary, we'll briefly explore what Attenborough calls "the tragedy of our time," and how, with immediate and decisive action, disaster can be averted. In the 1960s, families often had five children, but today the average is 2.5. For 65 million years, its been at work reconstructing the living world until we come to the world we know our time. He researched how the Earth had experienced massive eruptions at specific points, destroying many species. Coral reefs were turning white. SIMON: You were a BBC executive in the control room when the first pictures of Earth were sent back by the Apollo 8 crew. You put crops on the land and get another reward. This city in Ukraine was once home to almost 50,000 people. This habitat was the subject of the series The Blue Planet, which we were filming in the late 90s. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to live our comfortable lives." As Attenborough says: 'We regard the Earth as our planet, run by mankind for mankind.' They charted them as they moved across rivers, through woodlands, and over national borders. You saw a blue marble, a blue sphere in the blackness, and you realized that that was the earth. [Attenborough] At the turn of the century, Morocco relied on imported oil and gas for almost all of its energy. Der Emmy-gekrnte Naturforscher David Attenborough (Unser Planet", Planet Erde II") hat einen Plan fr die Zukunft. 24FramesArchives Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist. 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. Recordings like these revealed that the songs of the humpbacks are long and complex. The living world cant operate without a healthy ocean and neither can we. As Attenborough cautions, the bleached coral is like canaries in a coal mine. Renewable energy, such as solar, wind, and water, could supply power. You could fly for hours over the untouched wilderness. There was nothing left to restrict us. 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. Many experts wrote off Pripyat, and many of us are apathetic about the future of the planet. In 2014, a plane with 239 people aboard vanishes from all radar. If we take care of nature, nature will take care of us. Throughout the north, frozen soils thaw, releasing methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide, accelerating the rate of climate change dramatically. We need to shift to plant-based diets. 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. That may sound impossible, but there are ways in which we can do this. 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. Regenerative and urban farming are two options. Pripyat is situated in Ukraine, and was built by the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Mangroves and coral reefs along thousands of miles of coast have harbored nurseries of fish species that, when mature, then range into open waters. watch for yourself. The worlds greatest wildlife reserve. We must immediately halt deforestation everywhere and grow crops like oil palm and soya only on land that was deforested long ago. We must rewild the world. We remember environmental disasters, but do we actually learn from them? Immense grasslands. Half of the fertile land on earth is now farmland. The point for me was simple: the wild is far from unlimited. And that's because of the oceanic commons, as they say, the areas of the ocean in which anybody can do what they like. As a child, Attenborough enjoyed studying fossils. Palau is a Pacific Island nation reliant on its coral reefs for fish and tourism. The last time it happened was the event that brought the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was going to bring everything we had ever dreamed of. [Attenborough] I was in a television studio when the Apollo mission launched. The complete series [HD DVD] / a BBC/Discovery Channel/NHK co-production, in association with the CBC ; . It triggered an environmental catastrophe that had an impact across Europe. Despite its size, the Netherlands is now the worlds second largest exporter of food. Yet the way we humans live on Earth now is sending biodiversity into a decline. But what if Nimona is the monster he's sworn to kill? Trailer: David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. To establish a life on our planet in balance with nature. The Holocene has been one of the most stable periods in our planets great history. 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. The future generations of many tree species would be at risk. We are ultimately bound by and reliant upon the finite natural world about us. People benefit from the timber and then benefit again from farming the land thats left behind. You knock down a rainforest tree, and you get a lot of money from the timber which you sell. The more diverse it is, the better it does that job. A Life on Our Planet. But Ive had unbelievable luck and good fortune. We have arrived at locations expecting to find expanses of sea ice and found none. [Attenborough] We had broken loose. At 93, Sir David Attenborough has spent a lifetime studying the natural world, and been knighted for his efforts. They capture 3 trillion kilowatt-hours of solar energy every day. The ocean covers 70% of our planet's surface, and it's where all forms of life began. Complete the sentences with words from the . In the process, they also provide us with simple solutions to saving our planet before it is too late. Once a species became our target, there was now nowhere on earth that it could hide. As Attenborough reflects on his life, he begins each chapter with three facts. As much as 60% of farmland is devoted to beef production. The white corals are ultimately smothered by seaweed. We've adopted a fatalistic attitude that it's "too little too late." The United Nations and World Trade Organisation are trying to establish new rules in international waters, which are notoriously overfished by large nations. [wildebeest snorting] For every single predator on the Serengeti, there are more than 100 prey animals. Ive traveled to every part of the globe. 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. According to David Attenborough, we have 'overrun the Earth.' We can start to produce food in new spaces. The government decided to act, offering grants to land owners to replant native trees. Some of the numbers are slightly out too. Nobody wanted animals to become extinct. 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. What has that done? At first, the cause of the bleaching was a mystery. Mistakes. Emmy-winning narrator David Attenborough ("Our Planet," "Planet Earth II") looks back and shares a way forward. The 50,000 large dams in the world, change the water flow and temperature of rivers.

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