I find this extremely problematic. One cannot be a meat-eating environmentalist. One cannot talk about saving the earth when they partake in the single biggest contributor to natural destruction, climate change, habitat loss and species extinction. Worse, yet, is that Attenborough is aware that animal agriculture in the leading cause. He advocates for reducing meat intake, which simply is not enough to make a significant difference. We need to stop consuming animal products entirely because they are ruining the planet. A graduate from the University of East Anglia's MA in Creative Writing, Matt is often invited to teach the subject for writers of all ages. Recently, he has hosted workshops across Russia and the Middle East. He has also served on judging panels for the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award and the Booktrust Teenage Book Prize.

Russian: Жизнь на нашей планете: Мое предупреждение миру на грани катастрофы, romanized: Zhizn na nashey planete: Moye preduprezhdeniye miru na grani katastrofy, lit.'Life on Our Planet: My Warning to the World on the Brink of Catastrophe'. Translated by Sergey Bavin. Moscow: BOMBORA. 2021. ISBN 9785041183585. We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is we have to do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return like the forest has taken over the city of Pripyat after the Chernobyl disaster forced people to evacuate the city." We have the opportunity to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited. It gives a good overview of the things that can be done to make the world a better place again, is highly readable, informative, inspiring, and comes from the heart.Following that are 4 more chapters, chronicling stops in 1978 when he produced Life on Earth, 1989, 1997 and 2011 when he produced Frozen Planet. Then we get to last year, 2020. This book has two sections: a “witness statement” and a “vision for the future.” The former is a kind of autobiography, charting both the turning points in Attenborough’s life and charting the climate’s descent into emergency. It is not exactly an intimate memoire. But using the lifespan of a single man (albeit one quite advanced in years) did effectively showcase the enormous rate of change being undergone by the earth. In part two, Attenborough outlines the cascading catastrophe that could unfold in the next 80 years if decisive action is not taken. Ever the optimist, however, he spends more time describing strategies for avoiding such a calamity.

We are causing a rate of biodiversity loss that is more than 100 times the average, and only matched in the fossil record during a mass extinction event. We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom.”

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The difficulties are not ‘sugar coated’ as things that can be easily fixed. We are cautioned that some reversal strategies will be difficult to implement, but reminded that it is the sum of all the parts that count. This is a global call for action. Revealing the most amazing sights on Earth in unprecedented ways, alongside stories of the ways humans are affecting the world’s ecosystems—from the wildebeest migrations in Africa to the penguin colonies of Antarctica—this book captures in one concise narrative a fundamental message:

I don’t think anyone other than Sir David Attenborough could have written this book and made it so powerful and enlightening. His voice, (yes you do hear him speaking as you read) makes everything interesting in this, a book full of statistics and scientifically described information. He manages to hold your attention and get his stark message in an easily understandable way, that very few others could manage. The only way out, then, is to try to “re-wild” the world. Attenborough has some concrete suggestions for this. We can prevent over-fishing by only permitting the practice in certain parts of the ocean, leaving others undisturbed to recover their populatioins. We can vastly reduce our need for farmland by switching to a mostly plant-based diet, and adopting better farming practices, thus leaving more space available for wildlife. We can stem human population growth by promoting economic development throughout the world, which leads to demographic transition. And we can, of course, stop emitting carbon into the atmosphere by switching to renewable energy like solar or wind. This way, the biodiversity that helped to stabilize the climate can return. We have ten years to change the fate of our planet's future - this is how. With an introduction from HRH Prince William and contributions from David Attenborough, Shakira, Christiana Figueres and more. This striking photographic companion to the groundbreaking NETFLIX original documentary series, from the directorsthat brought us the original Planet Earth and Blue Planet, takes us on a journey across the globe’s different biological realms to present stunning visuals of nature's most intriguing animals in action, and environmental change on a scale that must be seen to be believed.So I hope humanity can get a grip and remember that if nothing else, it’ll save a lot of money (no matter how expensive some conservation efforts might seem at first glance) and it’d serve us well if we protected the very planet that is feeding us. I certainly will recommend this book as an authoritative, and easily digestible narrative to raise awareness for everyone. There's also the excellent audiobook read by the author himself, as well as a new documentary available on Netflix for those less inclined to read. Potton, Ed (16 September 2020). "David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet review — a pre-emptive eulogy for the Earth". The Times . Retrieved 21 November 2020.

Finnish: Yksi elämä, yksi planeetta: Näkemys ihmeellisen maailmamme tulevaisuudesta. Translated by Ilkka Rekiaro. Helsinki: WSOY. 2020. ISBN 9789510456583. Dochartaigh, Kerri (26 October 2020). "A Life on Our Planet: David Attenborough's devastating but essential call to action". The Irish Times . Retrieved 21 November 2020. But even for someone like me, who hasn't witnessed the changes first-hand, the numbers are disconcerting to say the least. Nobody is able to deny that unless they are a complete idiot. Yes, there are different "interpretations", but the fact of the matter is that we're taking up more and more space, are overfishing the seas and leaving behind sheer unimaginable quantities of plastic waste for example.

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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet is a 2020 film by the documentarian and natural historian David Attenborough. Jonnie Hughes served as director and producer, as he has on Attenborough's documentaries since 2000. [1] Initially scheduled for cinematic release on 16 April 2020, the film was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film premiered on 28 September 2020 in cinemas and debuted on the online streaming platform Netflix on 4 October. [2] [3] [4] Those small moments illustrate how mammals, reptiles, arthropods, fish, cephalopods and other “dynasties”, as the programme likes to call them, established themselves via natural selection. “Throughout history, life has been waging an unending war,” says Morgan Freeman’s film-trailer voiceover, slightly nonsensically. “One dynasty rising, only to be vanquished by the next.” The next two sections talk about what lies ahead of us if we continue living as we do in the present and his vision for the future with proper and sustainable efforts to rewild the world. Biodiversity is what keeps Earth stable and balanced, with its resources constantly renewable to sustain life on the planet. However, the demands of the human race have far outstripped Earth's capacity to renew. As depressing as it may all appear to be, it is heartening to note that there have been progress made in certain sectors or countries, with notable impact in the targeted areas. 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. What truly infuriates is when some seem to be deliberately ignorant or obtuse about environmental or climate issues, and I've definitely come across such behaviour from personal experience. I am David Attenborough. At time of writing, I am 93 years old. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.