david attenborough: a life on our planet transcript david attenborough: a life on our planet transcript

And the quickest and most effective way to do that is for us to change our diet. By 1975, the average was two. 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.' 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. A moment ago, we made this recording with an underwater microphone here in the Pacific near Hawaii. But what if Nimona is the monster he's sworn to kill? In 1998, a Blue Planet film crew discovered that the beautiful colors of the coral reefs were turning to skeletal chalky white. Yet, we're nowhere near the stage where our population has stopped growing. J.P. Morgan: How One Man Financed America is a fast-paced and informative portrait of Americas most prolific banker a man so powerful that when he died, the NYSE paused all trading for half a day out of respect. [Attenborough] Animals that had been viewed as little more than a source of oil and meat became personalities. 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. [Attenborough] At the turn of the century, Morocco relied on imported oil and gas for almost all of its energy. This truth defined the life we led in our pre-history, the time before farming and civilization. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. This city in Ukraine was once home to almost 50,000 people. We learnt how to exploit the seasons to produce food crops. So, what do we do? Due to carelessness, poor planning, and human error, it's probably the most devastating environmental disaster to date. Every other species on Earth reaches a maximum population after a time. Its a creature called an ammonite. In 1998, a Blue Planet film crew stumbled on an event little known at the time. But for us, an idea could do that. [protester in English] Hello, Boctok. Do the preparation task first. You knock down a rainforest tree, and you get a lot of money from the timber which you sell. Pollinating insects disappear. Ive always had a passion to explore, to have adventures, to learn about the wilds beyond. The true tragedy of our time is still unfolding across the globe, barely noticeable from day to day. The complete series [HD DVD] / a BBC/Discovery Channel/NHK co-production, in association with the CBC ; . We must rewild the world. But that distant world is changing. Mistakes. There just isnt the space. Orangutan mothers have to spend ten years with their young, teaching them which fruits are worth eating. And in life the animal itself lived in the chamber here and spread out its tentacles to catch its prey. We remember environmental disasters, but do we actually learn from them? By the time Frozen Planet aired in 2011, the reasons for these changes was well established. [Attenborough] By the time Life on Earth aired in 1979, I had entered my 50s. 2.4M views 2 years ago In this unique feature documentary, titled David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet, the celebrated naturalist reflects upon both the defining moments of his. Coral reefs were turning white. And I believe we can do our best. Life cycles on, and if we make the right choices, ruin can become regrowth . Many of the millions of species in the forest exist in small numbers. Attenborough's wildlife journey started at a young age. So let's go back to the beginning of this summary. 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. All sorts of things that you had no idea had ever existed, all in a multitude of colors, all unbelievably beautiful. 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. It was the first indication to me that the earth was beginning to lose its balance. In his more recent travels, Attenborough noticed fishers using mosquito nets in the hope of catching something to eat. Immense grasslands. But the longer we leave it, the more difficult itll be to do something about it. Its only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. Fossils. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement. "No fishing" zones cover less than 7% of the ocean. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet: Directed by Alastair Fothergill, Jonathan Hughes, Keith Scholey. Polar bears need ice as the launching pads for hunting. But lines blur when a key informant makes a big ask. The government decided to act, offering grants to land owners to replant native trees. This was before any of us were aware that there were problems. David Attenborough is a famous British naturalist. It needs protecting. [Attenborough on video] Climbing over the tightly-packed bodies is the only way across the crowd. Weve managed to travel by boat to islands that were impossible to get to historically because they were permanently locked in the ice. As Attenborough cautions, the bleached coral is like canaries in a coal mine. 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. After the death of their father, two half-brothers find themselves on opposite sides of an escalating conflict with tragic consequences. Fish populations crash. But its now becoming apparent that its not all doom and gloom. [whales singing] Their mournful songs were the key to transforming peoples opinions about them. That is quite true. Fishers survived on food vouchers but kept the faith, and today, marine life in that area has increased by more than 400%. We have overfished 30% of fish stocks to critical levels. Thank you. More recently, you may have heard of Pripyat from the HBO series Chernobyl? Preparation. 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. [1] Initially scheduled for cinematic release on 16 April 2020, the film was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He researched how the Earth had experienced massive eruptions at specific points, destroying many species. Emmy-winning narrator David Attenborough ("Our Planet," "Planet Earth II") looks back and shares a way forward. The Netherlands is one of the worlds most densely-populated countries. Um, and I certainly would feel very guilty if I saw what the problems are and decided to ignore them. Those forests and plains and seas were already emptying. It had everything a community would need for a comfortable life. The ocean has long since become unable to absorb all the excess heat caused by our activities. Its covered with small family-run farms with no room for expansion. And then we will suddenly discover that suddenly the seas are almost empty. However, half the world's rainforests have been destroyed, and the orangutan population in Borneo has reduced to a third of what it was. And all of them completely undisturbed by your presence. For example, the Costa Rican government offered farmers grants to replant indigenous trees twenty-five years ago. A further 60% are the animals we raise to eat. However, if we had "no fishing" zones in one-third of the sea, our fish stocks could recover over the long term. An imaginative young squirrel leads a musical revolution to save his parents from a tyrannical leader. Over billions of years, nature has crafted miraculous forms, each more complex and accomplished than the last. Its quite straightforward. A few millennia after this began, I grew up at exactly the right moment. 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. Iceland, Albania, and Paraguay generate their electricity without fossil fuels. Starring: David Attenborough. An amazing and delicate web of connected relationships exists everywhere, particularly in rainforests. 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. For 10,000 years, the average temperature has not wavered up or down by more than one degree Celsius. The pace of progress was unlike anything to be found in the fossil record. And the speed of global warming increases. 75% of all species were wiped out. [Attenborough] We had broken loose. A story of global decline during a single lifetime. Attenborough is famous for many of the truly epic natural history documentaries on our planet. [Attenborough] They ate meat rarely. 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. This city in Ukraine was once home to almost 50,000 people. Attenborough says, We run life on the planet to meet our own ends.. But you now want to explain to us what peril we are in. 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. [Attenborough] I was in a television studio when the Apollo mission launched. At 93, Sir David Attenborough has spent a lifetime studying the natural world, and been knighted for his efforts. If we take care of nature, nature will take care of us. Our greatest threat in thousands of years. Sir David, thanks so much for being with us. The killing of whales turned from a harvest to a crime. Farming would be pushed to a crisis point. SIMON: I feel the need to take up some of the very practical points that you raise in this book. And powerful evidence that however grave our mistakes, nature will ultimately overcome them. We need to shift to plant-based diets. Attenborough's wildlife journey started at a young age. Trailer: David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. It has hidden its secrets well because of the difficulties of filming underwater. 1954 WORLD POPULATION: 2.7 BILLION CARBON IN ATMOSPHERE: 310 PARTS PER MILLION REMAINING WILDERNESS: 64%. So, I had the privilege of being amongst the first to fully experience the bounty of life that had come about as a result of the Holocenes gentle climate. 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. Environmental economists are trying to address this. Large parts of the earth are uninhabitable. [wildebeest snorting] For every single predator on the Serengeti, there are more than 100 prey animals. We account for over one-third of the weight of mammals on earth. A century from now, our planet could be a wild place 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. But to continue, we require more than intelligence. Farmers in developed countries could be incentivized to build biodiversity on their farms. Uh The Human beings have overrun the world. We have such a fascination for wildlife, but wild animals make up only 4% of the mammals on Earth. There are signs that this has started to happen across the globe. If we want to, we can kill almost anything in the sea that we wish. The number that can be sustained on the natural resources available. The forest is growing, flowers and fruit trees blossom, and wild animals visit. When fish stocks began to reduce, the Palauans responded by restricting fishing practices and banning fishing entirely from many areas. We must immediately halt deforestation everywhere and grow crops like oil palm and soya only on land that was deforested long ago. This might all sound like a post-apocalyptic horror movie. Two legendary Go players, once student and master, face victory and defeat as they inevitably come face to face as rivals. But Ive had unbelievable luck and good fortune. I wasn't prepared for it. They have a symbiotic relationship; the algae absorb sunlight, which provides the polyps with the energy they need to snap up their passing prey, and expand their coral colony. 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. The pace of change was getting faster and faster. This alga is vital because it's the start of the Arctic and Antarctic food chains. This model outlines nine critical thresholds, or planetary boundaries, such as climate change, air pollution, land conversion, and biodiversity loss. And we understand that it's going to cost something if you put it right and that the Western and developed countries had more than their fair share. However, as it does this, carbon dioxide changes into carbonic acid. Yet, theyve removed 90% of the large fish in the sea. But Chernobyl was a single event. SIMON: You advocate what you call no-fish zones. Landslides and floods would occur, but worse still, this thawing would release 1,400 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. Oil and gas companies represent the largest businesses globally, heavy industry uses fossil fuels, and there's a hefty stock market investment in these companies. It was an astonishing vision of a completely unknown world, a world that had existed since the beginning of time. Life in Pripyat continued comfortably until 26 April 1986, when reactor number 4 at Chernobyl exploded. And Im going to tell you how. In this future, we discover ways to benefit from our land that help, rather than hinder, wilderness. And I remember very well that first shot. I'm quite sure. [snorting] Whenever we choose a piece of meat, we too are unwittingly demanding a huge expanse of space. 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. Let's briefly go back in time. The Second World War was over, technology was making our lives easier. As the ocean continues to heat and becomes more acidic, coral reefs around the world die. If theres any justice in the world, Marcel Ophls monumental labor will be studied and debated for years. A key reason the population is still growing is because many of us are living longer. Half of the fertile land on Earth is currently farmed, and it's often overgrazed, over-sprayed with pesticides, and denuded of topsoil. It had everything a community would needfor a comfortable life. As nations develop everywhere, people choose to have fewer children. 2021 Scraps from the Loft. And if there's a profit in it, we do that - worse than that, even when there's not a profit in it, when governments actually see fit to subsidize it. Nature will take any chance to reclaim some space. Coral reefs don't like acid, and 90% of our reefs could die off in a few years. All rights reserved. The natural world will survive. Two legendary Go players, once student and master, face victory and defeat as they inevitably come face to face as rivals. As Attenborough reflects on his life, he begins each chapter with three facts. Just imagine that. At first, they caught plenty of fish in their nets. If this is the case, surely it's up to us to treat our planet with kindness and respect. Ive seen it with my own eyes. 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. Fast forward to 2021, and a far greater catastrophe looms. A Life on Our Planet. watch for yourself. There are many differences between humans and the rest of the species on earth, but one that has been expressed is that we alone are able to imagine the future. David Attenborough has seen more of the natural world than any other. People were coming to care for the natural world. Again, the two features work together. The ocean covers 70% of our planet's surface, and it's where all forms of life began. To restore stability to our planet, we must restore its biodiversity. Sir David Attenborough is 94 years old and has some stark, startling sentences in the first few pages of his new book. list the consequences of walking in darkness; tate brothers romania; lac courte oreilles tribal membership requirements; uva men's volleyball roster. Rising sea levels could lead to cities like Rotterdam, Ho Chi Minh City, and Miami being evacuated. 2020 | Maturity rating: 7+ | 1h 23m | Nature & Ecology Documentaries. The Holocene has been one of the most stable periods in our planets great history. thank you soo much this script was very good, Your email address will not be published. The living world is a unique and spectacular marvel. 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. . 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. These people were hunter-gatherers, as all humankind had been before farming. 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. You could fly for hours over the untouched wilderness. Haunted by an unsolved murder, brilliant but disgraced London police detective John Luther breaks out of prison to hunt down a sadistic serial killer. That may sound impossible, but there are ways in which we can do this.