Pollutants can have a lasting impact on species - an impact that may take time for us to fully understand. When asked to reflect on Thunberg's achievements, Attenborough's respect was unequivocal. Highly ambitious, Our Planet has been created in collaboration with Silverback Films, whose director Alastair Fothergill was the creator of the critically acclaimed original Planet Earth and Blue Planet series. Apple TV+ has renewed the award-winning natural history series from executive producers Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton and BBC Studios Natural History Unit (Planet Earth). Multimedia: Anchor Standard #7 for Reading (for both ELA classes and for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Classes). David Attenborough: ( 00:01) So, whats stopping you from doing something to help the environment and to preserve humanity and the non-human animals at risk from climate change? [12] On 19 March 2019, the official trailer for the documentary was released.[13]. Since 2006, efforts have been made to reduce deforestation for soy in the Brazilian Amazon, so production has moved to another part of the country. Host Ari Shapiro speaks to the natural historian Sir David Attenborough, who began making documentaries and TV programs in the 1950s. They're used in the electrical industry. David Attenborough sits on a rock by a shore, facing the camera. And I think they feel it, this threatening tide of extinction that is pushing on them. One of the biggest problems is incredible - we actually waste about 40% of the food that is produced. Our Planet doesnt hide from it. At any one time, there could be as many as 100,000 trawlers operating in our seas. There is another huge trade that is driving the loss of biodiversity, and this one happens in plain sight. Mr. Attenborough in his book explains the meaning of mass extinction as follows: For different reasons at different times in the Earths history, there had been a profound, rapid, global change to the environment to which so many species had become so exquisitely adapted. But during his lifetime, Attenborough has also seen first-hand the monumental scale of humanity's impact on nature. urgency ? It's basically scrub grasslands, scrub forests. Unique animals with complex and varied lives disappearing from our planet forever isn't just disturbing. Chris Rock makes comedy history with this global livestreaming event. For instance, the global temperature anomaly in 2015 was 0.87C above the 20th-century average, while in 2020, it was 1.02C above that same average. 500,000 plants and animals and 500,000 insects. Speaker 7: (05:55) If working apart, we are force powerful enough to destabilize our planet, surely, working together, we are powerful enough to save it. Weve worked out all the problems. However, the supply is becoming increasingly unpredictable for all manner of species. That's not to say that none of us should ever eat meat or should cut all dairy out of our diets. CCSS pp. In the Australian Wet Tropics, we're already seeing that with possums and birds that just can't handle the heatwaves. Shop for sustainable fish and meat; 3. 1. And in some parts of the world, there's not even good regulations to limit the catches. By 1990, just seven known individuals survived. We can plant trees, we can start retrofitting buildings so they're much more efficient, make our cities much cleaner. The bleak warning from scientists at a major UN conference in Japan. For other films relating to the environment, For a movie describing some unexpected ways in which non-human animals have temporarily improved their lives during the Covid-19 Pandemic shutdowns, see, For a 2019 eight-part series each segment about 54 minutes by David Attenborough celebrating the natural wonders that remain and revealing what we must do to preserve them and to ensure that people and nature thrive, go to. In a groundbreaking move, David Attenborough's Our Planet not only showcases the raw beauty of nature, but also forces viewers to acknowledge the devastating role they play in its demise. Transcribe Your Own Content Try Rev and save time transcribing, captioning, and subtitling. Its a haunting vision. For the first time civilization was possible and we wasted no time in taking advantage of that. A stable, healthy world that we can benefit from, forever. Venomous snakes coiling round camera equipment. It's really digging down, saying, what's going on here? The problem is we're now changing those ecological systems on a massive scale, right across the globe. The average person in the UK consumes nearly four times the resources of the average person in India, and in the United States it's about seven times as much. [10][11] Three months later, on 4 February 2019, the second teaser trailer was released. In April 1986 a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine went into an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction and exploded. This is the first time there's been a global assessment where all the evidence has been pulled together, thousands and thousands of papers. When submersibles finally succeeded in reaching the ridges in the 1970s, they found an extraordinary world with miles of once molten rock. Scientists predict that in the future, as temperatures continue to rise, climate change will become the greatest threat faced by species. The majority goes into animal feed. Of the total mass of mammals on Earth, livestock has been found to account for 60%, humans for 36%, and wild animals just 4%. He has perpetually been on the road ever since. [4], On 15 April 2015, it was announced that the team behind the BBC nature series Planet Earth would produce an eight-part nature docu-series for Netflix that would be released in 2019. 3. 8. And what are the things going on there that could have caused it? Poppy grew up and actually was a very long-lived mountain gorilla and had many offspring. High-speed rail links have gone in there, roads have been built into remote areas. So when he asks that people heed his "witness statement" about the peril humans . Music composed by award-winning composer Steven Price. Learn more about our use of cookies and information. The best thing to do is to stop eating any wild-caught fish, including canned fish. And over time all of them help the economy. Tony_G. And of course, we throw it away from the plate. Starring: David Attenborough Watch all you want. Animals at the base of the food chain might absorb very small amounts. David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet, pages 106 & 107. Additionally, 2021 was the sixth warmest year on record, according to NOAA. But new land is still being cleared because often it's quicker and cheaper to do so. Other scientists believe the number could be much larger. Their numbers have just reached and exceeded 1,000. [indistinct chatter] Traders claim that they have medicinal purposes, but, you know, pangolin scales are made of keratin. There are ways of sustainably managing fish stocks. (The three Anchor Standards read: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media, including visually and quantitatively as well as in words.) CCSS pp. If you have not used our catalog since prior to June 6, 2016 contact Circulation at the number below to get your PIN reset. Many people think of extinction being this imaginary tale told by conservationists, but I have lived it. We're a group of 12- and 13-year-olds come to tell you adults, you must change your ways.". Speaker 4: (03:12) david frost jimi hendrix; Membership. How can we save our jungles? Students can be assigned to research and write essays on the current state of different parts of the environmental collapse and how that might affect our lives. It is worse than expected. Drag us, Attenborough. A few of these entries are shown in the film. 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. Choose deforestation-free palm oil products; and We know how to stop the number rising and put it in reverse. David Attenborough, Our Planet. For. I do truly believe that together we can create a better future. The point of this question is that given the current situation everyone will need to have an idea of what they want for the planet in the future and how society can attain the goal of a balanced sustainable ecosystem. But we drive it, actually. Biting ants. After the Dragon King steals his staff, the Monkey King sets off on a mission to get it back. While we're making some progress, to be quite candid, we probably will not meet any of the targets. It's a very productive form of plant protein that's widely used. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet - Transcript October 14, 2020 David Attenborough has seen more of the natural world than any other. He is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K.Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not like the term. Ecologists called this a scramble competition every bacterium for itself! David. Bearing Witness to make a statement acknowledging that something exists or is true; often it refers to stating what other people need to hear but what they dont want to hear. For all of the incredible things he's captured with his camera, "A Life on Our Planet" is perhaps the first time Attenborough is acting as its lens. This city in Ukraine was once home to almost 50,000 people. Bibliography. David Attenborough calls for divestment from fossil fuels, and points out the irony of banks and investment firms investing pension funds in fossil fuels when it's these dirty fuels preventing the future that we are saving for. Downloads only available on ad-free plans. Go behind the scenes of Netflix TV shows and movies, see what's coming soon and watch bonus videos on. We found that in China, we have about 16% left of what we had 120 years ago. But you have to choose whether you want to extract a sustainable, modest catch or have a big catch for a short term. Every day, we lose between two or three rhinos in Africa. You can change your cookie preferences. The books listed in the Bridges to Reading section. Find out from Sir David Attenborough why farmers and governments have a key role to play. Our Planet is a British nature documentary series made for Netflix. In this trailer, he talks about his documentary . Get it right and we still have the ability to pull back and rein in the collapse of biodiversity. Population growth is much, much higher in the developing world than in the developed. It could be a status symbol or it could be for medicinal purposes. This Learning Guide was written byJames A. Frieden. And the expansion of agriculture was the only way for most people to survive. Calculate how much it costs to transcribe, caption, or subtitle your content. Now the team behind some of the BBC's best nature docs are training their lenses closer to home Ferocious oceanic storms. 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. We only have two left on the planet. All have a journey still to complete so that all nations have a good standard of living and a modest footprint. At least 5% of the radioactive reactor core was ejected into the environment. But Yunnan has been under incredible change for the past few decades. To destroy this natural habitat would be devastating to local wildlife which might never recover. From the makers of "Planet Earth," and narrated by Emmy and BAFTA winner Sir David Attenborough. David Attenborough returns in this breathtaking documentary showcasing life on Planet Earth. The carbon cycle and the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle are two of the most important. Sir David Attenborough recently highlighted - Only 5% of creatures now living on our planet are wild . He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series that form the Life collection, which form a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? A 1 hour long bonus episode "Our Planet - Behind The Scenes" about the project is accessible under Additional Videos on Netflix. Most of them we can do now. When Attenborough's narration tells the audience "We have destroyed half the forests on earth", she retorts "But, who is we? Cameras follow desert elephants seeking sustenance, bison roaming North American grasslands and caterpillars living the good life underground. The series's presenter is the naturalist David Attenborough, who is regarded as a national treasure in the U.K.he was knighted, in 1985and has written and narrated so many wilderness. The light, comic touches that made for lovely little moments in Planet Earth are overshadowed if not spoiled entirely, by the traumatic lessons put front and centre. 223 & 224. And so we think Covid-19 maybe even started there. Helpful Background Theres never been a better opportunity to take control. We must use this opportunity to create a more equal world and our motivation should not be fear, but hope. This film is one mans witness statement about the degradation of the worlds environment over his lifetime. We have over 200 rangers, and their jobs is to see every gorilla and check on the habitat. Speaking and Listening: Anchor Standards #s 1 3 (for ELA classes). There is now about 5% of trawler cod fish left before the turn of the 20th century. So if we lose the diversity of the soil, the consequences of that can be catastrophic. "David Attenborough" Scripts.com. Tune in for a live pre-show 30 minutes before Chris set, followed by an aftershow. Convert your audio or video into 99% accurate text by a professional. It also offers all the stunning imagery youve come to expect from these documentarians, but its attitude may surprise you. It just shows what we can achieve when we put our minds to it. Portland Transcript - 1855 New York Magazine - 1993-11-22 New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of We have systems to bring food to our cities and to remove sewage. General Eisenhower, Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, upon discovering the horrific Nazi death camps said, For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Even today, Animal Rights activists feed water to pigs crammed together in the large trucks used to transport them to slaughter both to relieve the pigs of a little of their suffering and to bear witness to that suffering. In thisLearning Guide citations to Mr. Attenboroughs book, A Life on Our Planet My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future, written with Jonnie Hughes, will be to Attenborough with a page reference. The chart can be printed and given to the class before and briefly reviewed before they see the film. And we've found that those investments which are good for the environment are very powerful ways out of the depression that we find ourselves in. That population has been studied for about 30 years. In 2002 he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide poll for the BBC. For the biggest gains, we could concentrate our efforts on four goals: 1. Read the transcript of the speech here. They are mother and daughter. It's deeply tragic. Sir David Attenborough in "A Life on our Planet": The living world is a unique and spectacular marvel. And that means hundreds of thousands of animals are bred in fur farms. Choose deforestation-free palm oil products; and 5. [3], A second season is set for a 2023 release. The UK doesn't import much beef, but we do import another product from Brazil which is driving the destruction of habitat. Mr. Attenborough ends the film with a message of hope that with human birth rates going down all over the world well be able to establish a modern sustainable ecological balance halting the progress of the Sixth Mass Extinction. Poaching is still sort of like a war, a constant battle that we have to fight. In yours, you could and should witness a wonderful recovery. Selected Awards & Cast They live at super high density and are the ones far more likely to make us sick. Your excellencies, delegates, ladies and gentlemen, as you spend the next two weeks, debating, negotiating, persuading and compromising, as you surely must, its easy to forget that ultimately the emergency climate comes down to a single number, the concentration of carbon in our atmosphere. From a single pond to a whole tropical rainforest. Transcripts & captions for a better media workflow. This year has shown us we've gone one step too far. Sir David Attenborough explains how we should all work together globally to ensure our oceans thrive. This is Fatu. Cultured meat, also called clean meat, is Meat for consumption produced as a cell culture of animal cells rather than from the slaughter of animals. Follow the true, surprising and unknown story of Rocco Siffredi, the superstar Italian porn actor who forever revolutionized the adult film industry. Over the course of his 60-year career as a naturalist and beloved wildlife narrator, the landscape of the natural world has changed dramatically. What's different is that it's happening simultaneously in the Amazon, in Africa, in the Arctic. Students can write a poem describing their reaction to the film or inspired by the film. [17], Lucy Mangan of The Guardian gave out 4 out of 5 stars to Our Planet, saying "it places clearer emphasis on the fragility and interconnectedness of all the species and eco-systems on display, and on the huge impact, humanity has had on them in so short a time. Some supermarkets and some manufacturers are starting to shift, but what our data show is that the consumption of soy in the UK, even though it's a small amount of the total exports, because of where we're buying it from, is having a disproportionate impact on certain species. This change has not happened overnight, but if it can be achieved here, where human population pressure is so high, where the politics can be very complicated, especially among different states, I believe it can be achieved elsewhere as well. Over the last 20 years, the illegal wildlife trade has become a multi-billion dollar global industry. We have to recognise that nature has true value that is taken into consideration in national accounts. "[24] Writing in The Independent, Lucy Jones stated that the most important aspect of the series, which set it apart from other nature documentaries of its type, was the depictions of the harsh realities of global warming, mass species extinction and environmental degradation which were woven into the narration that accompanied the breathtaking scenes and imagery, but she also argues it did not go far enough and should have been more radical given current ecological crises. That must change" (qtd in Hook 8). If PCBs are not disposed of appropriately, then you can get leaching out from the landfill site, into river courses, river beds and back out to sea. "It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. At this moment, we do have the Paris Agreement that says all governments should try and limit climate change to no more than two degrees Celsius. Many of these wonders seem set to disappear forever. At the moment, nature is coming as a free good. STANDS4 LLC, 2023. Attenborough launched an official Instagram account on Thursday, Sept. 24, in support of the film. Our burning of fossil fuels, our destruction of nature, our approach to industry, construction and learning, are releasing carbon into the atmosphere at an unprecedented pace and scale. The result is that the conversion of habitat for agricultural production actually ceased. Climate change. This website uses cookies and similar identifiers to give you the best online experience. Discover why Rev is the #1 speech-to-text service in the world. Download Worksheet Language level We must do. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Describing the scale of the challenge is necessary but I wanted the series to go further, to peer under the hood."[25]. "[20], Will Gompertz of BBC also handed out a 4 out of 5 stars for the series, stating it "gives us some of the most dazzling images you are ever likely to view on TV. One in four plants. There are four Asian pangolin species and four African. But the reality is there's really not a lot of wild left out there. aerosol spray or used in refrigerants were actually eating the ozone layer. And we've found we're behind every single pandemic and it's human impact on the environment that drives emerging diseases. Do the preparation task first. We've learnt that many, many times, and yet we carry on making the same mistake. 2. Often the best reservoirs for the pathogens that can jump to humans are smaller bodied species, like rats and mice and certain kinds of bats. Examine the fragile interdependence that exists between forests' wide variety of residents, including bald eagles, hunting dogs and Siberian tigers. So we shouldn't be demoralised, because we know how to do this stuff. The goal is to raise the issue and have a respectful airing of differing views. Unless science saves them, when Najin passes away, she'll leave the daughter Fatu alone forever. So we are simply moving our footprint on destroying nature to another country. 35 & 60. Transcribe your audio files to find high-impact insights in minutes. Complete the sentences with words from the . 3. If there are barriers to movement, this can cause very serious consequences. It was figured out quickly that it was a coronavirus. The massive hit to the economy is no surprise. There does have to be some standard. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet: Directed by Alastair Fothergill, Jonathan Hughes, Keith Scholey. A RESTful API to access Revs workforce of fast, high quality transcriptionists and captioners. Scientists have even linked our destructive relationship with nature to the emergence of Covid-19. Watch on "Biodiversity is declining in every region of the world, all as a consequence of the way we have chosen to live," notes nature historian Sir David Attenborough, who narrates Our Planet, in the foreword for a companion photography book published in tandem with the series. We need to not just to talk about what we can do, but to do what we can. It also has fewer animal welfare issues.. The series is narrated by David Attenborough and produced by Silverback Films, led by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, who also created BBC documentary series Planet Earth, Frozen Planet and The Blue Planet, in collaboration with the conservation charity World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The eight-episode Netflix original provides viewers with majestic scenes of our natural world, through the sobering lens of climate change. [2] It was later reported that 100 million households had watched the series as of March 2021. Create a better, more engaging experience for every student. What can governments, industries and we as individuals do to slow this decline of the natural world? Last year, the United Nations asked over 500 scientists to investigate the current state of the natural world. If we don't act now, the youth of today and the youth of tomorrow are going to look back on this generation with absolute horror.