A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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What I liked about his witness statement is that he outlined solutions, which were quite comprehensive in scope, to deal with our unsustainable lifestyles and the damage we've done to our planet. Its first part, My Witness Statement, details key moments in Attenborough's career and the parallel decline of wildlife and rise in carbon emissions.

This is his witness statement of the changes, a simple and accessible explanation why we should care, and ideas and hopes for us, humans, to find a way out of the disaster we are bringing upon ourselves. We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. We can prevent over-fishing by only permitting the practice in certain parts of the ocean, leaving others undisturbed to recover their populatioins. It was not laws invented by human beings that interested me, but the principles that governed the lives of animals and plants; not the history of kings and queens, or even the different languages that had been developed by different human societies, but the truths that had governed the world around me long before humanity had appeared in it.Bryan Appleyard of The Times found that Attenborough's "special pleading is fair and should be noted by other eco-warriors" and recommended the book both "to learn" and "to honour the man". With a new afterword, Why You Are Here: A speech on the opening of the COP26 climate summitAs a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world – but it was an illusion. If you liked Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, there is a high probability that you will also like this book. This book needs to take a stronger stance on what is the biggest cause for environmental destruction. WWF-UK (Worldwide Fund for Nature) Trading Limited, registered in England and Wales with company no.

He proposes that bringing countries out of poverty, providing universal healthcare and improving girls' education would make the growing human population stabilise sooner and at a lower level.A Life on Our Planet is one of the best books I’ve read this year and one of the best on sustainability. A starred review for Kirkus Reviews praised the book as "excellent", finding Attenborough "refreshingly optimistic" and the book useful for "anyone concerned with the planet's ecological future". Attenborough’s long life over which these changes have been ever-accelerating is really less than a blink on a planetary life scale — and yet life as we know it is now teetering on a brink, rushing there with the speed that, while much slower that dinosaur-doom Chicxulub asteroid, is proceeding scarily fast, to the point where what we leave to generations to come — climate, biodiversity, ability of the planet to sustain our ever-expanding numbers — is really uncertain. We’ve heard this before of course, but Attenborough has such a positive attitude that he makes it seem possible.

He is exploring the various threats imposed by humans on our planet that is affecting its biodiversity. The things that are expected to happen until the year 2100, another blink of an eye, if we don’t change our ways. Initially scheduled for cinematic release on 16 April 2020, the film was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Wild boars, deers and other species also recovered, triggering a chain reaction that resulted in foxes, badgers and even lynxes being seen frequently again. Then in 1952 he joined the BBC as a trainee producer and it was while working on the Zoo Quest series (1954-64) that he had his first opportunity to undertake expeditions to remote parts of the globe to capture intimate footage of rare wildlife in its natural habitat.Wie der deutsche Titel es schon sagt: David Attenborough ist wohl der berühmteste und angesehenste Naturfilmer der Welt. and all I was wondering was how could he have any hope left in himself after seeing everything he did! Following that are 4 more chapters, chronicling stops in 1978 when he produced Life on Earth, 1989, 1997 and 2011 when he produced Frozen Planet. Attenborough is uniquely well-positioned—by his age, reputation, and experience—to be making this warning. Când nu vor mai exista exploatări exagerate ale forței de muncă (fiindcă teoretic nivelul de trai din acele țări sărace va crește), cine va mai pompa averi în buzunarele bogaților?