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. The year an eleven-year-old David Attenborough explored the countryside around Leicester, turned over rocks, excited about what he might find under them; the year I was born; the year the United States of America under then-president Donald Trump effectively withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation, because it would “undermine” the U.

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.The average diet of India, the reimagining of national wealth from New Zealand, the overhaul of fisheries from Palau, the integration of cities into their natural surroundings of Singapore, the switching from fossil fuels to renewables from Iceland, etc. Wie der deutsche Titel es schon sagt: David Attenborough ist wohl der berühmteste und angesehenste Naturfilmer der Welt. But then further into the book it explained all what needs to be done and what is currently being done, and turned my despair into hope. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet is a 2020 film by the documentarian and natural historian David Attenborough. Attenborough spune că țările mai dezvoltate ar trebui să le ajute pe cele mai puțin dezvoltate și mai sărace în resurse cu mijloace care să le permită să facă agricultură sustenabilă, să crească animale în mod sustenabil etc.

The book is divided into three parts: My Witness Statement, What Lies Ahead, and A Vision for the Future. There were times when I felt the science became dense, but I imagined the sound of the author’s distinctive voice. As a book which I thought was remarkably compact for one on environmental and climate awareness/sciences, A Life on Our Planet was an immensely well-written, concise and insightful narrative. He explains the problems we have created, both for ourselves and for our home (are they even separate?He is a fellow of the Royal Society, and stands at the forefront of issues concerning the planet's declining species and conservation.