The Holocene has been one of the most stable periods in our planets great history. Urban farming is an option on rooftops, abandoned buildings, and exterior walls of city buildings. Still, energy use, production, transport, farming, and telecommunication have also shown their sinister side. 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. Recordings like these revealed that the songs of the humpbacks are long and complex. And the idea could be passed from one generation to the next. Emmy-winning narrator David Attenborough ("Our Planet," "Planet Earth II") looks back and shares a way forward. Giving people a greater opportunity of life is what we would want to do anyway. The 50,000 large dams in the world, change the water flow and temperature of rivers. Mistakes. So, how do we recognize critical thresholds? But, the moral of the story is indeed a positive one. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to live our comfortable lives." 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. With nothing to restrict us, our population has been growing dramatically throughout my lifetime. There are something like 4,000 million of us today, and weve reached this position with meteoric speed. Our predators had been eliminated. And renewable energy will never run out. Sir David,. One of the extraordinary things about it was that the world could actually watch it as it happened. This too is happening as a result of bad planning and human error and it too will lead to what we see here. There just isnt the space. 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 a brutal and unpredictable world. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. Saving individual species or even groups of species would not be enough. [Attenborough] They ate meat rarely. 1954 WORLD POPULATION: 2.7 BILLION CARBON IN ATMOSPHERE: 310 PARTS PER MILLION REMAINING WILDERNESS: 64%. And powerful evidence that however grave our mistakes, nature will ultimately overcome them. 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. To move from being apart from nature to becoming a part of nature once again. It triggered an environmental catastrophe that had an impact across Europe. But it now appeared this was only because the ocean was absorbing much of the excess heat, masking our impact. And I remember very well that first shot. But you now want to explain to us what peril we are in. And the rich and thriving living world around us has been key to this stability. And the quickest and most effective way to do that is for us to change our diet. Chris Rock makes comedy history with this global livestreaming event. Nature is our biggest ally and our greatest inspiration. ATTENBOROUGH: Well, I'm not sure if you can take an overall view like that. For example, the Costa Rican government offered farmers grants to replant indigenous trees twenty-five years ago. But scientists started to discover that in many cases where bleaching occurred, the ocean was warming. As much as 60% of farmland is devoted to beef production. Over billions of years, nature has crafted miraculous forms, each more complex and accomplished than the last.
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david attenborough: a life on our planet transcript