Once the script and its timing is in place, it actually only takes him about two hours to record the narration for an hour-long episode, he explains, allowing for the odd re-take when theres a mispronunciation. [Attenborough] They lived in small numbers and didnt take too much. Did that number stop rising and start to drop, as a result of commitments made here? We rely entirely on this finely tuned life-support machine. The explosion was a result of bad planning and human error. Great numbers of species disappear and are suddenly replaced by a few. In Attenboroughs words, Our home was not limitless. 'Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet' Review: A Dire Warning Our EIN or tax ID is 45-3714703. Explore and monitor how Future of the Environment is affecting economies, industries and global issues. Half of the worlds rainforests have already been cleared. When Attenborough showed the world how similar we are to some of our closest relatives, mountain gorillas, in his Life on Earth series in 1978, wilderness had dropped to 55% of the planet. A boundary that marks a profound, rapid, global change. By and large, its a story of slow, steady change. Below the line are a multitude of lifeforms. We learnt how to exploit the seasons to produce food crops. The ocean has long since become unable to absorb all the excess heat caused by our activities. If we dont take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon. Just imagine that. Saving individual species or even groups of species would not be enough. [reindeer grunting] [birds hooting] [buffalo snorting] [birds cawing] [elephants trumpeting]. Its a sanctuary for wild animals that are very rare elsewhere. David Attenborough's breathtaking journey through Africa. We now understand this problem. All we need is the will to do so. Top 5 David Attenborough Moments | BBC Earth - YouTube World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use. A key reason the population is still growing is because many of us are living longer.
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