And there I was, actually being asked to explore these places and record the wonders of the natural world for people back home. How could the people of Easter Island create and move such imense structures around? But for us, an idea could do that. Today, those whove done the least to cause this problem, are being the hardest hit. Mangroves and coral reefs along thousands of miles of coast have harbored nurseries of fish species that, when mature, then range into open waters. [Attenborough] We had broken loose. In 2020, world-renowned naturalist David Attenborough released a new film - "A Life on Our Planet" - which he calls his "witness statement" for the environment. Nature is our biggest ally and our greatest inspiration. 47 programmes available. This is a challenge that we should try to solve in a quick way, but with a long term vision. As a result, the no fish zones have increased the catch of the local fishermen, while at the same time allowing the reefs to recover. It was a brutal and unpredictable world. Our predators were eliminated, our diseases cured or treated. An archivist in the BBC Natural History Unit discovers unseen colour footage. He talked about his new docu-series, "A Perfect Planet," and why the. The most remote habitat of all exists at the extreme north and south of the planet. At 90, Sir David Attenborough might be appearing on location in nature documentaries less than he used to, but he is still very much involved in the editing process, writing the scripts for his narration which give the episodes their intimate and wondrous feel. We humans cannot presume the same. Duration: 2:51 A further 60% are the animals we raise to eat. It needs protecting. Theyre places in which evolutions talent for design soars. Even as some of us were setting foot on the moon, others were still leading such a life in the most remote parts of the planet. [Attenborough] They lived in small numbers and didnt take too much. And in less than 48 hours, the city was evacuated. Like "For life to truly thrive on this planet, there must be immense biodiversity. But that distant world is changing. The nearby nuclear power station of Chernobyl exploded. The explosion was a result of bad planning and human error. 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. To move from being apart from nature to becoming a part of nature once again. Rainforests are particularly precious habitats. Translated on-screen subtitles for videos. 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. [whales singing] Their mournful songs were the key to transforming peoples opinions about them. Thank you for the feedback, the missing data has been added and incorrect year amended. Speaker 6: (05:46) Rewilding the world is simpler than you might think. It's simple. Make your content more accessible to people with disabilities. And yet, this is what weve been turning this dizzying diversity into. Theres a chance for us to make amends, to complete our journey of development, manage our impact, and once again become a species in balance with nature. 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. Those forests and plains and seas were already emptying. But the longer we leave it, the more difficult itll be to do something about it. But if you get in a helicopter, you see that that is a strip about half a mile wide. Attenborough rewrites each script to fit his own turn of phrase and checks for accuracy. Planet Earth-inspired app lets you become a documentary maker | WIRED UK David Attenborough: (04:37) The problem is that our fishing fleets are just as good at finding those hot spots as are the fish. In international waters, the UN is attempting to create the biggest no fish zone of all. Sir David Attenborough, who will present a new series about nature across the Uk an Ireland for the BBC. Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses. Immense grasslands. Even when people are telling that now is the time to make a change, it was still time to do that many years ago. They are the best technology nature has for locking away carbon. Fishing is worlds greatest wild harvest. Giving people a greater opportunity of life is what we would want to do anyway. With all these things, there is one overriding principle. Planet Earth II Episodes' Transcripts | Subs like Script The Maasai word Serengeti means endless plains. To those who live here, its an apt description. Did that number stop rising and start to drop, as a result of commitments made here? David Attenborough narrates a natural history of the oceans. He is a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Some of the numbers are slightly out too. The future was going to be exciting. We waste the majority of stuff we consume, be it food, electricity, or space so Attenborough implores us to reduce waste if we do nothing else. Imagine if we committed to a similar approach across the world. Nature is resilient, if humanitys foot is removed from its throat. . Under Title 17 U.S.C. Its covered with small family-run farms with no room for expansion. This was particularly the case in the final episode of Planet Earth II, Cities, in which he did a piece to camera calling for the world to think more carefully about wildlife when it comes to urban development. Again, the two features work together. Sitting on the edge of the Sahara, and cabled directly into southern Europe, Morocco could be an exporter of solar energy by 2050. Easily integrate Rev using our robust APIs to start building your product quickly. We now understand this problem. Hilde Schwab and Sir David Attenborough at the 25th Annual Crystal Awards Image:World Economic Forum / Manuel Lopez. Transcribe your audio files to find high-impact insights in minutes. The start of my career in my 20s coincided with the advent of global air travel. We can start to produce food in new spaces. Im absolutely terrified to bring a child to this world. Lions are the second largest of the'big cats' after the tiger and arethe most social, with related females living together in prides and males forming coalitions. Speech-to-Text API for pre-recorded audio, powered by the worlds leading speech recognition engine. David Attenborough and cameraman Charles Lagus describe their near miss take off. It took a visionary scientist, Bernhard Grzimek, to explain that this wasnt true. Explore and monitor how Future of the Environment is affecting economies, industries and global issues. We must recapture billions of tons of carbon from the air. Half of the fertile land on earth is now farmland. 0 likes. We invented farming. It always counts to do whatever it takes to save the humanity. When Bernard Grzimek illustrated to the world in 1960 that wildlife needed huge areas, like the Serengeti, to persist, the planets wilderness had dropped to 62%. When you first see it, you think perhaps that its beautiful, and suddenly you realize its tragic. Arguably one of David Attenborough's best documentaries of all time, The Blue Planet consists of eight 50-minute episodes examining the many wonderful and complex facets of the marine environment and life in it. When fish stocks began to reduce, the Palauans responded by restricting fishing practices and banning fishing entirely from many areas. Pollinating insects disappear. David reads out the final paragraph of Charles Darwin's work of scientific literature. All available episodes (9 total) Supporting Content. This documentary's message is underrated by many people, and it has been like that for a long time. 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. None of us can afford for it to happen. Its the only way out of this crisis we have created. Its all happened within the last 2,000 years or so. He and his son used a plane to follow the herds over the horizon. [Attenborough] We are facing nothing less than the collapse of the living world. There just isnt the space. And because we would be then dedicated to raising plants, we could increase the yield of this land substantially. By 1975, the average was two. The real David Attenborough | David Attenborough | The Guardian Every other species on Earth reaches a maximum population after a time. Kirsty and David discuss a memorable moment from the 1979 production, Life on Earth. David discusses ornamental decorations with the Biami tribe, without a translator. 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. Each episode covers a different habitat: deserts, mountains, deep oceans, shallow seas, forests, caves, polar regions, fresh water, plains and jungles. Sir David Attenborough Answers . I mean, we have completely well, destroyed that world. The measure that greatly determines global temperature and the changes in that one number is the clearest way to chart our own story, for it defines our relationship with our world. At times, our ancestors existed only in tiny numbers, but just over 10,000 years ago, that number suddenly stabilized and with it, Earths climate. Its hard to concentrate on land composition and vanishing biodiversity amid the barrage of bizarre visual effects and histrionic music. The future generations of many tree species would be at risk. Our predators had been eliminated. It was only in the 50s that large fleets first ventured out into international waters to reap the open ocean harvest across the globe. The white corals are ultimately smothered by seaweed. As healthcare and education improved, peoples expectations and opportunities grew, and the birth rate fell. 1937 WORLD POPULATION: 2.3 BILLION CARBON IN ATMOSPHERE: 280 PARTS PER MILLION REMAINING WILDERNESS: 66%. In just 25 years, the forest has returned to cover half of Costa Rica once again. The great man has spoken. A monoculture of oil palm. Im crying while typing this by the way. 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The trick is to raise the standard of living around the world without increasing our impact on that world. I look at these images now and I realize that, although as a young man I felt I was out there in the wild experiencing the untouched natural world it was an illusion. But we can make them the only source. People were coming to care for the natural world. You think you have control. We urgently need society (and the politicians we elect) to recognize the broader destruction of our natural world by a thousand cuts, and refuse to accept this any longer. The natural world is fading. That desperate hope, ladies and gentlemen, delegates, excellencies, is why the world is looking to you and why you are here. Without the white ice cap, less of the suns energy is reflected back out to space. 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. David Attenborough with an armadillo on BBC TV in 1963. . Nothing to stop us. Two impassioned fans talk about their hero. No ecosystem, no matter how big, is secure. .chakra .wef-facbof{display:inline;}@media screen and (min-width:56.5rem){.chakra .wef-facbof{display:block;}}You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in our emails. It was called natural history because thats essentially what it was all about history. Nationalism must end we need to recognize that we are all inhabitants of this planet and humanity will be devastated unless we address climate change and the biodiversity crisis. It was a feature of all five mass extinctions. Ways to fish our seas that enable them to come quickly back to life. The African elephant is the largest living terrestrial mammal, with the largest recorded individual reaching four metres at the shoulder and weighing 10 tonnes! It was a great place to come to as a boy, because this is, um, ironstone workings, but it was disused. My answer would be, yes, we have to. We require wisdom. On iPlayer. And if we do it right, it can continue because theres a win-win at play. But it now appeared this was only because the ocean was absorbing much of the excess heat, masking our impact. Wherever I went, there was wilderness. Sir David Frederick Attenborough is a naturalist and broadcaster, who is most well-known for writing and presenting the nine "Life" series, produced in conjunction with BBC's Natural History Unit. [protester in English] Hello, Boctok. Your email address will not be published. Mountain gorilla numbers now exceed 1,000 individuals thanks to concerted conservation efforts. We just have to do what nature has always done. And you could happily retire. That may sound impossible, but there are ways in which we can do this. Speaker 8: (06:03) [reindeer grunting] [birds hooting] [buffalo snorting] [birds cawing] [elephants trumpeting]. Baby gorillas were at a premium, and poachers would kill a dozen adults to get one. Top 5 David Attenborough Moments | BBC Earth - YouTube Scientists call it the Holocene. Indoors, within cities. A few millennia after this began, I grew up at exactly the right moment. David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockstrm examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockstrm examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockstrm examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted. We must use this opportunity to create a more equal world and our motivation should not be fear, but hope. It was a rediscovery of a fundamental truth. And, of course, the ocean is important to all of us as a source of food. All available episodes' scripts of Tv Show Planet Earth II . 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. From Pole to Pole 59 mins This episode journeys across the planet, from pole to pole, following the influence of the sun and discovering how its seasonal journey affects the lives of all who live on earth. Leading lives that interlock in such a way that they sustain each other. There are something like 4,000 million of us today, and weve reached this position with meteoric speed. Read about our approach to external linking. [Attenborough] By the end of the century, Borneos rainforest had been reduced by half. Complete biography of David Attenborough . STANDS4 LLC, 2023. The stability we all depend on is breaking. David Attenboroughs latest nature documentary on Netflix may be his greatest yet. David Attenborough meets a particularly talented lyrebird. Ultimately, all of us will feel the impact, some of which are now unavoidable. For a long time, I and perhaps you have dreaded that future. David Attenborough: 'The Garden of Eden is no more'. Read his Davos When they do, theyre able to gather the concentrated shoals with ease. We rely entirely on this finely tuned life-support machine. David Attenborough: (00:48) [wildebeest snorting] For every single predator on the Serengeti, there are more than 100 prey animals. Vast swathes of forest have been cleared, waters polluted, species driven extinct. He was sent it two . Journalist Jenny Eliscu and filmmaker Erin Lee Carr investigate Britney Spears fight for freedom by way of exclusive interviews and confidential evidence. But to continue, we require more than intelligence. We cut down over 15 billion trees each year. In 1998, a Blue Planet film crew stumbled on an event little known at the time. And it lived about 180 million years ago. The vast majority, chickens. Throughout the north, frozen soils thaw, releasing methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide, accelerating the rate of climate change dramatically. But Chernobyl was a single event. The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum. Even in places where theres no land at all. A new industrial revolution, powered by millions of sustainable innovations, is essential, and is indeed already beginning. To start to thrive. The largest whales, the blues, numbered only a few thousand by then. And beyond that strip, there is nothing but regimented rows of oil palms. 2030s. We have arrived at locations expecting to find expanses of sea ice and found none. All these years later, its once again the only option. It was the first indication to me that the earth was beginning to lose its balance. In such places, huge shoals of fish gather. And the quickest and most effective way to do that is for us to change our diet. [Attenborough] Animals that had been viewed as little more than a source of oil and meat became personalities. Unless we stopped ourselves. I feel free. 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]. And the changes we have to make will only benefit ourselves and the generations that follow. Coral reefs were turning white. By the time Attenborough filmed his Zoo Quest series in 1954, 64% of the planet was wilderness. There are signs that this has started to happen across the globe. Celebrating Attenborough at 90. A mass extinction has happened five times in life's four-billion-year history. But in certain places, there are hot spots where currents bring nutrients to the surface and trigger an explosion of life. The nation's favourite broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough, returned to our screens recently with the launch of Planet Earth II.To celebrate Attenborough and the amazing work he has done over . This is a series of one-way doors bringing irreversible change. 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. To save the humanity, we have to save the earth. Many people regarded it as the most costly in the history of mankind. Protected fish populations soon became so healthy, they spilt over into the areas open to fishing. The last time it happened was the event that brought the end of the age of the dinosaurs. Our past impacts on the species we share this planet with are reprehensible, and the future on this trajectory will be bleak. A habitat that is dead in comparison. The history of all human civilization followed. We have pursued animals to extinction many times in our history, but now that it was visible, it was no longer acceptable. Your email address will not be published. The black rhinoceros, also known as the hook-lipped rhinoceros,is the best known of the five living rhinoceros species, with its aggressive reputation and highly publicised international conservation drive. And it relies on its biodiversity to run smoothly. So, what do we do? [protester over megaphone] We are men and women, and we speak for children, and were all saying, Please stop killing the whales.. We actually have no control. Only when billions of different individual organisms make the most of every resource and opportunity they encounter, and millions of species lead lives that . David Attenborough learns about the athletic ability of the tyrannosaurus rex. But Ive had unbelievable luck and good fortune. We have a lot more than just climate change to worry about, argues this nature doc narrated by Sir David Attenborough. How Darwin noticed different adaptations in the tortoises from Galapagos. The removal of people from this area has seen forest take over the town, and rare wildlife has returned. By 1997, only 46% of the planets wilderness remained. In Asia, the winds would create the monsoon on cue. [thunder rumbling] And the weather is more and more unpredictable. It is about empowering people.". The fishing quickly became so poor that countries began to subsidize the fleets to maintain the industry. Nobody wanted animals to become extinct. A marked change in atmospheric carbon has always been incompatible with a stable earth. David Attenborough's Powerful Speech To COP26 Leaders - Forbes The predators help to keep nutrients in the oceans sunlit waters, recycling them so that they can be used again and again by plankton. Within 20 years, renewables are predicted to be the worlds main source of power. We cant cut down rainforests forever, and anything that we cant do forever is by definition unsustainable. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Often described as the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world's oceans, this multiple award-winning series features jaw-droppingly beautiful underwater . Attenborough has lived through the initiation of the crisis when he was a small boy exploring the extinct species found in quarries in 1937, 66% of the planet was wilderness. I spent the latter half of the 1970s traveling the world, making a series I had long dreamed of called Life on Earth, the story of the evolution of life and its diversity. Phytoplankton at the oceans surface and immense forests straddling the north have helped to balance the atmosphere by locking away carbon. A boundary that marks a profound, rapid, global change. And in life the animal itself lived in the chamber here and spread out its tentacles to catch its prey. Fossils. If theres any justice in the world, Marcel Ophls monumental labor will be studied and debated for years.

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