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

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The film premiered on 28 September 2020 in cinemas and debuted on the online streaming platform Netflix on 4 October. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough is written by a 93-year-old man who has seen our planet deteriorate from the beginning of his adulthood until now. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. We need to consider alternative ways to feed ourselves without straining our natural resources even more and to do so in a fair way.

When energy flows in a single direction through a system, we use up fuel on one end and create a lot of waste on the other—somehting that cannot go on forever. This advice comes from someone who has spent a lifetime in nature and is dreadfully worried about the consequences.

If you liked Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, there is a high probability that you will also like this book. David Attenborough's A Life On Our Planet leaves viewers in tears as Netflix doc reveals devastation of natural world". In part two, Attenborough outlines the cascading catastrophe that could unfold in the next 80 years if decisive action is not taken. We also learn of humanity's evolution, the different environmental circumstances which our ancestors had to survive and what has changed until now (this, the Holocene, is the gentlest era thus far).

Im dritten Teil macht er dann aber Vorschläge, mit der die Menschheit vielleicht noch zu retten sein wird. But as there's still positive growth, the petri dish is getting crowded as there's more competition for the few remaining nutrients. Lots of depressing information is laid out as Sir Attenborough drops truth in this book, truth that the entire world desperately needs to listen to and begin to understand. To quote an extraordinary and morally consistent environmental activist "it's time to start panicking" because there is still hope that we can change this. However, as an introduction to some of the current environmental challenges, I think this offers a pretty good overview.This was a short, simple, and definitely to the point kind of read, and when it comes to world issues, Attenborough is the King, and I think this book is thought-provoking and terribly necessary to anyone that happens to read it. So it seems really very unfair that Man should have chosen the gorilla to symbolise everything that is aggressive and violent, when that is the one thing that the gorilla is not - and that we are.

He's got this infectious fascination for life on this planet that I can never help being swept along with.Delightful autobiographical section to open this interesting book – 4 StarsA well-presented book that’s very easy to read, and I particularly enjoyed the opening section in which Sir David Attenborough gives us a potted autobiography covering several of his most notable broadcasts.

of Life (1990), The Private Life of Plants (1995), Life of Birds (1998), The Blue Planet (2001), Life of Mammals (2002), Planet Earth (2006) and Life in Cold Blood (2008).The first section was about his life and that was all very interesting and I was glad it started like that before talking about the future of the earth. I've seen both ends of the spectrum when it comes to awareness of what is happening and the impact of our choices in our daily lives on the planet that we live in. James Bradley of The Sydney Morning Herald found the book "extremely powerful", writing that Attenborough "captures the accelerating ruination of the planet in the starkest possible terms". Personally, I've seen it here in my area: storks were gone for over 15 years, we barely had any amphibians left, the water quality dropped significantly (which, by the way, meant we needed to apply expensive methods to clean it enough to make it drinkable so saving the environment might even be cheaper), foxes and badgers weren't seen, the forests grew sick, a lack of birds of prey meant the place being overrun by vermin or people needing to use terrible poisons to get a hold of the situation.