david attenborough: a life on our planet transcript10 marca 2023
It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. Still, energy use, production, transport, farming, and telecommunication have also shown their sinister side. 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. 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. 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. These rivers are also dumping grounds for chemicals and pesticides, destroying birds and freshwater fish. It was a great place to come to as a boy, because this is, um, ironstone workings, but it was disused. Sir David. An amazing and delicate web of connected relationships exists everywhere, particularly in rainforests. By damming, polluting, and over-extracting rivers and lakes, weve reduced the size of freshwater populations by over 80%. As the Arctic warms, the tundra in Alaska, northern Canada, and Russia, would collapse as the permafrost would not stay sufficiently frozen to hold the soil together. 70% of the mass of birds on this planet are domestic birds. There was nothing left to restrict us. Fossil fuels increase the greenhouse effect, releasing gases such as carbon dioxide. 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. Billions of individuals, and millions of kinds of plants and animals [birds chirping] dazzling in their variety and richness. 2020 | Maturity Rating: 7+ | 1h 23m | Science & Nature Docs. There is little left for the rest of the living world. A monoculture of oil palm. A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with. Required fields are marked *. If we dont take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon. 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. It's happening already. Since the Second World War, what's known as the "Great Acceleration" has brought us many progressive things, as our GDPs indicate. 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. Phytoplankton at the oceans surface and immense forests straddling the north have helped to balance the atmosphere by locking away carbon. As a child, Attenborough enjoyed studying fossils. This begs the question, 'What will the next 100 years look like if we dont change?'. Insects, our small hunters, and pollinators have reduced by one quarter. Um, so, the world is not as wild as it was. In 1950, a Japanese family was likely to have three or more children. But whether it will survive in the form that will include us in it is just another question. [Attenborough] By the time Life on Earth aired in 1979, I had entered my 50s. For. Let's rewind to 1937 and some of the statistics of that time. But if you get in a helicopter, you see that that is a strip about half a mile wide. The orangutan. But Chernobyl was a single event. In addition to this, we have an increased life expectancy. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Again, the two features work together. We now have the opportunity to create the perfect home for ourselves, and restore the rich, healthy, and wonderful world that we inherited. The forest is growing, flowers and fruit trees blossom, and wild animals visit. Without predators, nutrients are lost for centuries to the depths and the hot spots start to diminish. By and large, its a story of slow, steady change. [thunder rumbling] [lowing] On the tropical plains, the dry and rainy seasons would switch every year like clockwork. [exclaiming in surprise] And Im still learning. [Attenborough] Ive been lucky enough to spend my life exploring the wild places of our planet. Yet, theyve removed 90% of the large fish in the sea. Then watch the video and do the exercises. Half a million gazelle. Nature will take any chance to reclaim some space. . But we can make them the only source. Summer sea ice in the Arctic has reduced by 40% in 40 years. It took a visionary scientist, Bernhard Grzimek, to explain that this wasnt true. David Attenborough. list the consequences of walking in darkness; tate brothers romania; lac courte oreilles tribal membership requirements; uva men's volleyball roster. Its entirely possible for us to apply both low-tech and hi-tech solutions to produce much more food from much less land. If theres any justice in the world, Marcel Ophls monumental labor will be studied and debated for years. The history of all human civilization followed. The scale of the problem is so overwhelming . Boo! Based on a children's book by Paul McCartney. 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. With David Attenborough, Max Hughes. Attenborough is famous for many of the truly epic natural history documentaries on our planet. [Attenborough] It was a stark contrast to the world I knew. That may sound impossible, but there are ways in which we can do this. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to live our comfortable lives." How did that change our view of the world? If we want to, we can kill almost anything in the sea that we wish. The Holocene was our Garden of Eden. Fewer trees and more carbon in the atmosphere would escalate global warming significantly. It was a brutal and unpredictable world. Today, forests cover half of Costa Rica. There was an edge to our existence. Farmers in developed countries could be incentivized to build biodiversity on their farms. Ocean life was also unravelling in the shallows. But, the moral of the story is indeed a positive one. Humanitarian crises would result as people would be forced to relocate, triggering border conflict. As much as 60% of farmland is devoted to beef production. At first, they caught plenty of fish in their nets. Buy now Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist. Over time, I began to learn something about the earths evolutionary history. All sorts of things that you had no idea had ever existed, all in a multitude of colors, all unbelievably beautiful. Its the only way out of this crisis we have created. In the extreme Alaskan wild, 16 survivalists compete for a chance to win a massive cash prize but these lone wolves must be part of a team to win. Ive had the most extraordinary life. The largest whales, the blues, numbered only a few thousand by then. [whales singing] [whales continue singing]. Environmental economists are trying to address this. And I remember very well that first shot. There are signs that this has started to happen across the globe. Two legendary Go players, once student and master, face victory and defeat as they inevitably come face to face as rivals. Prehistoric Planet will be back for a second season. And you could happily retire. Ive experienced the living world firsthand in all its variety and wonder. Interspersed with footage of his career and of a wide variety of ecosystems, he narrates key moments in his career and indicators of how the planet has changed since he was born in 1926. The natural world is fading. But somehow, it really changed the attitude of people. 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. A further 60% are the animals we raise to eat. Otherwise, this is brilliant! Our imprint is now truly global. And skeletal is precisely what these reefs were becoming. On current projections, there will be 11 billion people on Earth by 2100. People had never seen pangolins before on television. Attenborough is now 94, and throughout his long life, has watched the natural world wither before his eyes. As the ocean continues to heat and becomes more acidic, coral reefs around the world die. To start to thrive. Unless we stopped ourselves. 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. And who knows what effect that will have on the world. Ive always had a passion to explore, to have adventures, to learn about the wilds beyond. But that rainforest is one of the key elements in the whole of the weather patterns of the world. As a result, female polar bears are giving birth to smaller cubs, and these underweight cubs are less likely to survive. The natural world is, fading, he writes. Recordings like these revealed that the songs of the humpbacks are long and complex. After all, theres plenty of it. The result is that the population has now stabilized and has hardly changed since the millennium. More than half of the species on land live here. Many people regarded it as the most costly in the history of mankind. He and his son used a plane to follow the herds over the horizon. So, how do we recognize critical thresholds? Offline ansehen. 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. We seem to have broken loose from the restrictions that have governed the activities and numbers of other animals. 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. It was called natural history because thats essentially what it was all about history. I've seen it with my own eyes. Landslides and floods would occur, but worse still, this thawing would release 1,400 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. If we fast-forward to 2020, a mere 83 years later, the statistics are disheartening. A habitat that is dead in comparison. In a single small patch of tropical rainforest, there could be 700 different species of tree, as many as there are in the whole of North America. In the process, they also provide us with simple solutions to saving our planet before it is too late. When I filmed with the mountain gorillas, there were only 300 left in a remote jungle in Central Africa. A renewable future will be full of benefits. The resources they used naturally renewed themselves. He researched how the Earth had experienced massive eruptions at specific points, destroying many species. Ive traveled to every part of the globe. Fish populations crash. Der Emmy-gekrnte Naturforscher David Attenborough (Unser Planet", Planet Erde II") hat einen Plan fr die Zukunft. Why wouldnt we want to do these things? 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. We've adopted a fatalistic attitude that it's "too little too late." And suddenly, we realized, you know, we're there together, and we're alone. Palau is a Pacific Island nation reliant on its coral reefs for fish and tourism. And ways to harvest our forests sustainably. 2020 | Maturity Rating: PG | 1h 23m | Documentary Films. We require wisdom. [over megaphone] Please stop killing the whales. Jonnie Hughes served as director and producer, as he has on Attenborough's documentaries since 2000. And the speed of global warming increases. Synopsis. Whales were being slaughtered by fleets of industrial whaling ships in the 1970s. The 'why' behind this, points to global warming. Large parts of the earth are uninhabitable. 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. 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. Morocco generates 40% from renewable power plants and exports solar energy. And as the natural environment fails, pandemics are likely to increase. The worlds greatest wildlife reserve. And the rich and thriving living world around us has been key to this stability. A moment ago, we made this recording with an underwater microphone here in the Pacific near Hawaii. The ocean covers 70% of our planet's surface, and it's where all forms of life began. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. The white corals are ultimately smothered by seaweed. 1978 WORLD POPULATION: 4.3 BILLION CARBON IN ATMOSPHERE: 335 PARTS PER MILLION REMAINING WILDERNESS: 55%. And in less than 48 hours, the city was evacuated. And sadly, we don't only deplete our fish. 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. But Ive had unbelievable luck and good fortune. With nothing to restrict us, our population has been growing dramatically throughout my lifetime. And this is what they saw what we all saw. Ways to fish our seas that enable them to come quickly back to life. But it was noticeable that some of these animals were becoming harder to find. It seems utterly impossible that after such a devastating environmental disaster, there would be any kind of happy ending. Preparation task . It had everything a community would need for a comfortable life. Raising yields tenfold in two generations while at the same time using less water, fewer pesticides, less fertilizer and emitting less carbon. The film's grand achievement is that it positions its subject as a mediator between humans and the natural world. And the idea could be passed from one generation to the next. The very thing that gave birth to our civilization. Global food production enters a crisis as soils become exhausted by overuse. Im talking about the loss of our planets wild places, its biodiversity. Our blind assault on the planet has finally come to alter the very fundamentals of the living world. Based on the comic book series by Mark Millar and Peter Gross. And they are centers of biodiversity. The Happy Planet Index measures both an ecological footprint and human well-being component in a country. Wherever I went, there was wilderness. web pages Rising sea levels could lead to cities like Rotterdam, Ho Chi Minh City, and Miami being evacuated. David Attenborough is a famous British naturalist. Without the white ice cap, less of the suns energy is reflected back out to space. 24FramesArchives Theyd never seen sloths before. They charted them as they moved across rivers, through woodlands, and over national borders. And to begin with, it was quite easy. And we now had the means to make people across the world aware. As nations develop everywhere, people choose to have fewer children. It was extraordinary that you could see what a man out in space could see as he saw it at the same time. With all these things, there is one overriding principle. We must rewild the world!" David Attenborough Its happened in my lifetime. [protester over megaphone] We are men and women, and we speak for children, and were all saying, Please stop killing the whales.. Its decision to do so has resulted in the human species pushing our planet towards a tipping point. If the ice disappears, so does the algae that grow underneath. Weve managed to travel by boat to islands that were impossible to get to historically because they were permanently locked in the ice. [Attenborough] At the turn of the century, Morocco relied on imported oil and gas for almost all of its energy. 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. I got as close as I did only because the gorillas were used to people. The future was going to be exciting. His passion for protecting diverse wildlife, and reclaiming our wilderness is palpable, and A Life on Our Planet is his "witness statement." The United Nations and World Trade Organisation are trying to establish new rules in international waters, which are notoriously overfished by large nations. Its now time for our species to stop simply growing. Increasingly, theyre doing so sustainably.
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