david attenborough: a life on our planet transcript

As a result, female polar bears are giving birth to smaller cubs, and these underweight cubs are less likely to survive. Life had no option but to rebuild. And renewable energy will never run out. These rivers are also dumping grounds for chemicals and pesticides, destroying birds and freshwater fish. Ocean life was also unravelling in the shallows. The nearby nuclear power station of Chernobyl exploded. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet . It was a rediscovery of a fundamental truth. Whales were being slaughtered by fleets of industrial whaling ships in the 1970s. His passion for protecting diverse wildlife, and reclaiming our wilderness is palpable, and A Life on Our Planet is his "witness statement." From Pripyat, an area deserted after a nuclear disaster, Attenborough gives an overview of his life. And tree diversity is the key to a rainforest. Its a creature called an ammonite. Preparation. In 1990, parts of the Mexican Coast were overfished, so a marine protected area was established. 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. This is a series of one-way doors bringing irreversible change. But that rainforest is one of the key elements in the whole of the weather patterns of the world. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Sir David,. Above, very few. But what if Nimona is the monster he's sworn to kill? Two legendary Go players, once student and master, face victory and defeat as they inevitably come face to face as rivals. Sitting on the edge of the Sahara, and cabled directly into southern Europe, Morocco could be an exporter of solar energy by 2050. As the ocean continues to heat and becomes more acidic, coral reefs around the world die. You could fly for hours over the untouched wilderness. Then watch the video and do the exercises. At the same time, the Arctic becomes ice-free in the summer. Sir David Attenborough Has A Dire Message About The Earth's Future It was extraordinary that you could see what a man out in space could see as he saw it at the same time. Life cycles on, and if we make the right choices, ruin can become regrowth . Weve managed to travel by boat to islands that were impossible to get to historically because they were permanently locked in the ice. This is now our planet, run by humankind for humankind. Ways to fish our seas that enable them to come quickly back to life. 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. [1] Initially scheduled for cinematic release on 16 April 2020, the film was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this . In fact, in 2019, New Zealand dropped GDP as its formal measurement of progress and created its own index, taking into account people, profit, and the planet. Each generation able to develop and progress only because the living world could be relied upon to deliver us the conditions we needed. And we now had the means to make people across the world aware. But lines blur when a key informant makes a big ask. 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. Even one as vast as the ocean. More recently, you may have heard of Pripyat from the HBO series Chernobyl? Indoors, within cities. 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. But it now appeared this was only because the ocean was absorbing much of the excess heat, masking our impact. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement. According to Attenborough, the 22nd century could herald massive enforced human migration. You can also read the transcript. At first, the cause of the bleaching was a mystery. The fishing quickly became so poor that countries began to subsidize the fleets to maintain the industry. 1954 WORLD POPULATION: 2.7 BILLION CARBON IN ATMOSPHERE: 310 PARTS PER MILLION REMAINING WILDERNESS: 64%. But if you get in a helicopter, you see that that is a strip about half a mile wide. [Attenborough] If we can change the way we live on Earth, an alternative future comes into view. Sparkling coastal seas. The good news is that electric cars are already here. 2020 | Maturity Rating: PG | 1h 23m | Documentary Films. Addeddate Our planet becomes four degrees Celsius warmer. Governments need to offer financial incentives to create wilderness areas or involve local communities that can benefit from rewilding. As Attenborough says: 'We regard the Earth as our planet, run by mankind for mankind.' [Attenborough] By the end of the century, Borneos rainforest had been reduced by half. 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. 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. As much as 60% of farmland is devoted to beef production. And then you clear that furthermore for cattle. 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. Large carnivores are rare in nature because it takes a lot of prey to support each of them. Over billions of years, nature has crafted miraculous forms, each more complex and accomplished than the last. we would keep consuming the earth until we had used it up. 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. It's not too late. Yet, theyve removed 90% of the large fish in the sea. Environmental economists are trying to address this. Its covered with small family-run farms with no room for expansion. [indistinct chatter] 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. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. However, as it does this, carbon dioxide changes into carbonic acid. Increasingly, theyre doing so sustainably. David Attenborough. I got as close as I did only because the gorillas were used to people. For example, the Costa Rican government offered farmers grants to replant indigenous trees twenty-five years ago. And to begin with, it was quite easy. There are something like 4,000 million of us today, and weve reached this position with meteoric speed. Protected fish populations soon became so healthy, they spilt over into the areas open to fishing. Its finite. A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough Summary - Briefer Any graph that measures their side-effects; carbon dioxide, methane, loss of land and sea wilderness, and increasing farmland will also illustrate a sharply accelerating increase. In his latest book and film, "A Life on Our Planet," he offers a grave and alarming assessment about . Ten thousand years ago, as hunter-gatherers, we lived a sustainable life because that was the only option. The scale of the problem is so overwhelming . Levies and carbon taxes will go somewhere to shift this. If we fast-forward to 2020, a mere 83 years later, the statistics are disheartening. [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. Ive had the most extraordinary life. The Holocene was our Garden of Eden. An imaginative young squirrel leads a musical revolution to save his parents from a tyrannical leader. There just isnt the space. In his more recent travels, Attenborough noticed fishers using mosquito nets in the hope of catching something to eat. Fishers survived on food vouchers but kept the faith, and today, marine life in that area has increased by more than 400%. That may sound impossible, but there are ways in which we can do this. Even orangutans play a role in this by spreading seeds as they search for ripe fruit. Its the only way out of this crisis we have created. 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. It was a great place to come to as a boy, because this is, um, ironstone workings, but it was disused. In the Frozen Planet series, filming crews noticed that the Arctic summers were growing longer, the summer sea ice had reduced by 30% in thirty years, and glaciers were far smaller. Starring: David Attenborough. This trajectory is unsustainable, and the Great Acceleration will inevitably result in a "Great Decline.". But somehow, it really changed the attitude of people. Because what youre looking at is skeletons. After all, theres plenty of it. The Netherlands is one of the worlds most densely-populated countries. And Im going to tell you how. In 1971, I set out to find an uncontacted tribe in New Guinea. Imagine if we phase out fossil fuels and run our world on the eternal energies of nature too. [chuckles] Because I wish the struggle wasnt there or necessary. And it lived about 180 million years ago. 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. Tonight, weve got a rather different program for you. The government decided to act, offering grants to land owners to replant native trees. 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. Thats almost 20 times the energy we need just from sunlight. And the quickest and most effective way to do that is for us to change our diet. All we need is the will to do so. Farms take up a combined space the size of North America, South America, and Australia combined, with devastating greenhouse gas emissions. On current projections, there will be 11 billion people on Earth by 2100. And we're on the danger of doing that. This might all sound like a post-apocalyptic horror movie. We are ultimately bound by and reliant upon the finite natural world about us. This habitat was the subject of the series The Blue Planet, which we were filming in the late 90s. 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. It was going to bring everything we had ever dreamed of. Today, it generates 40% of its needs at home from a network of renewable power plants, including the worlds largest solar farm. Sir David, thanks so much for being with us. But it was noticeable that some of these animals were becoming harder to find. SIMON: What does that mean? It was the first time that any human had moved away far enough from the earth to see the whole planet. [protester over megaphone] We are men and women, and we speak for children, and were all saying, Please stop killing the whales.. [protester in English] Hello, Boctok. There was an edge to our existence. All rights reserved. If we all had a largely plant-based diet, we would need only half the land we use at the moment. Coral reefs were turning white. Its now time for our species to stop simply growing. The biodiversity of the Holocene helped to bring stability, and the entire living world settled into a gentle, reliable rhythm the seasons. And then we will suddenly discover that suddenly the seas are almost empty. That is quite true. 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. With David Attenborough, Max Hughes. Without large fish and other marine predators, the oceanic nutrient cycle stutters. If we want to, we can kill almost anything in the sea that we wish. Giving people a greater opportunity of life is what we would want to do anyway. Many people regarded it as the most costly in the history of mankind. 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. Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre | Transcript, The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) Review by David Denby, J.P. Morgan: How One Man Financed America [Transcript]. Plankton would also be destroyed by the acid, affecting the entire food chain.

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