Our blind assault on the planet has finally come to alter the very fundamentals of the living world. The pace of change was getting faster and faster. [Attenborough] Ive been lucky enough to spend my life exploring the wild places of our planet. Phytoplankton at the oceans surface and immense forests straddling the north have helped to balance the atmosphere by locking away carbon. The government decided to act, offering grants to land owners to replant native trees. Based on the comic book series by Mark Millar and Peter Gross. Otherwise, this is brilliant! And beyond that strip, there is nothing but regimented rows of oil palms. The deforestation of Borneo has reduced the population of orangutan by two-thirds since I first saw one just over 60 years ago. People were coming to care for the natural world. One of the significant findings was that we pay attention to the environment when it affects us. And that's because of the oceanic commons, as they say, the areas of the ocean in which anybody can do what they like. These simple statistics speak as eloquently for our planet as our author does. When I was a boy, I spent all my spare time searching through rocks in places like this for buried treasure. Most of our diseases were under control. 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. However, half the world's rainforests have been destroyed, and the orangutan population in Borneo has reduced to a third of what it was. I mean, we have completely well, destroyed that world. Mistakes. [thunder rumbling] [lowing] On the tropical plains, the dry and rainy seasons would switch every year like clockwork. This city in Ukraine was once home to almost 50,000 people. But whether it will survive in the form that will include us in it is just another question. The truth is, with or without us, the natural world will rebuild. 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. The United Nations and World Trade Organisation are trying to establish new rules in international waters, which are notoriously overfished by large nations. It was a brutal and unpredictable world. It needs protecting. Copyright 2020 NPR. They were virtually impossible to find. Our predators had been eliminated. The explosion was a result of bad planning and human error. Uploaded by If we travel back to modern-day Pripyat, David Attenborough tells us that nature is once again asserting itself. 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. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. Thank you. [Attenborough] They lived in small numbers and didnt take too much. One of the extraordinary things about it was that the world could actually watch it as it happened. Starring: David Attenborough Watch all you want. Our greatest threat in thousands of years. Weve come this far because we are the smartest creatures that have ever lived. At first, they caught plenty of fish in their nets. Sir David Attenborough is a BAFTA and Emmy-Award winning broadcaster and natural historian.He is the internationally bestselling author of over 25 books, including Life on Earth.He also served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s, and as the President of the Royal Society for Nature Conservation in the 90s.
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