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This city in Ukraine was once
home to almost 50,000 people.
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It had everything
a community would need
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for a comfortable life.
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INDISTINCT CHATTER
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But On the 26th of April, 1986
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it suddenly became
uninhabitable.
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The nearby nuclear power station
of Chernobyl exploded...
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and in less than 48 hours,
the city was evacuated.
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No one has lived here since.
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The explosion was the result of
bad planning and human error...
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mistakes.
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It triggered
an environmental catastrophe
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that had an impact
across Europe.
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Many people regarded it
as the most costly
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in the history of mankind.
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But Chernobyl
was a single event.
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The true tragedy of our time
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is still unfolding
across the globe
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barely noticeable
from day to day.
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I'm talking about the loss
of our planet's wild places.
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Its biodiversity.
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The living world is a unique
and spectacular marvel.
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Billions of individuals
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of millions of kinds
of plants and animals...
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dazzling in their variety
and richness...
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working together to benefit
from the energy of the sun
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and the minerals of the earth.
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Leading lives that interlock
in such a way
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that they sustain each other.
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We rely entirely
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on this finely tuned
life-support machine.
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And it relies on
its biodiversity
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to run smoothly.
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Yet the way we humans
live on Earth now
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is sending biodiversity
into a decline.
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TREE CREAKS AND CRASHES
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This, too, is happening
as a result of bad planning
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and human error
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and it, too, will lead
to what we see here.
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A place in which we cannot live.
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The natural world is fading.
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The evidence is all around.
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It's happened in my lifetime.
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I've seen it with my own eyes.
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This film is
my witness statement
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and my vision for the future...
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the story of how we came to
make this, our greatest mistake
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and how, if we act now,
we can yet put it right.
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I am David Attenborough
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and I am 93.
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I've had the most
extraordinary life.
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It's only now that
I appreciate how extraordinary.
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INDISTINCT CHATTER
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I've been lucky enough
to spend my life
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exploring the wild places
of our planet.
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I've travelled
to every part of the globe.
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I've experienced
the living world first-hand
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in all its variety and wonder.
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In truth, I couldn't imagine
living my life in any other way.
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BIRDS CLICK
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I've always had a passion
to explore, to have adventures
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to learn about the wilds beyond.
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HE EXCLAIMS
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And I'm still learning...
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Boo!
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...as much now
as I did when I was a boy.
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BIRDSONG
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It was a very different world
back then.
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We had very little understanding
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of how the living world
actually worked.
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It was called "natural history"
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because that's essentially
what it was all about...
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history.
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It was a great place
to come to as a boy
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because this is
ironstone workings
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but it was disused.
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All this was absolutely clear.
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It was... Only just stopped
being a working quarry.
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When I was a boy,
I spent all my spare time
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searching through rocks
in places like this...
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for buried treasure.
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Fossils.
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It's a creature
called an ammonite.
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And, in life, the animal itself
lived in a chamber here
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and spread out its tentacles
to catch its prey.
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And it lived about
180 million years ago.
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This particular one
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has a scientific name
of Tiltonicerus
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because the first one ever
was found near this quarry
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here in Tilton,
in the middle of England.
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Over time,
I began to learn something
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about the Earth's
evolutionary history.
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By and large, it's a story
of slow, steady change.
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Over billions of years, Nature
has crafted miraculous forms
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each more complex
and accomplished than the last.
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It's an achingly
intricate labour.
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And then,
every 100 million years or so
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after all those
painstaking processes
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something catastrophic
happens...
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a mass extinction.
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Great numbers
of species disappear...
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and are suddenly
replaced by a few.
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All that evolution undone.
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You can see it.
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A line in the rock layers.
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A boundary that marks
a profound, rapid global change.
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Below the line
are a multitude of lifeforms.
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Above, very few.
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A mass extinction
has happened five times
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in life's
four-billion-year history.
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The last time it happened
was the event
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that brought the end
of the age of the dinosaurs.
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A meteorite impact
triggered a catastrophic change
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in the Earth's conditions.
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Seventy-five per cent of all
species were wiped out.
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Life had no option
but to rebuild.
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For 65 million years
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it's been at work reconstructing
the living world...
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until we come
to the world we know.
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Our time.
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Scientists call it the Holocene.
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The Holocene has been
one of the most stable periods
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in our planet's great history.
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BIRDS CHIRP
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For 10,000 years,
the average temperature
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has not wavered up or down
by more than one degree Celsius.
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And the rich and thriving
living world around us
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has been key to this stability.
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Phytoplankton
at the ocean's surface
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and immense forests
straddling the north
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have helped
to balance the atmosphere
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by locking away carbon.
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Huge herds on the plains
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have kept the grasslands
rich and productive
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by fertilising the soils.
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Mangroves and coral reefs along
thousands of miles of coast
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have harboured
nurseries of fish species
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that, when mature,
then range into open waters.
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A thick belt of jungles
around the Equator
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has piled plant on plant
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to capture as much of
the sun's energy as possible
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adding moisture and oxygen
to the global air currents.
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And the extent of the polar ice
has been critical
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reflecting sunlight back
off its white surface
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cooling the whole Earth.
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The biodiversity of the Holocene
helped to bring stability.
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And the entire living world
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settled into
a gentle, reliable rhythm...
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THUNDER RUMBLES
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...the seasons.
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THUNDER RUMBLES
— HERD LOWS
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On the tropical plains,
the dry and rainy seasons
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would switch every year,
like clockwork.
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THUNDER RUMBLES
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In Asia, the winds would
create the monsoon on cue.
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THUNDER RUMBLES AND CRASHES
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In the northern regions
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the temperatures would lift
in March, triggering spring...
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and stay high
until they dipped in October
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and brought about autumn.
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BIRDS CAW
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The Holocene was
our Garden of Eden.
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Its rhythm of seasons
was so reliable
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that it gave our own species
a unique opportunity.
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CATTLE MOOS
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We invented farming.
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We learnt how to exploit
the seasons
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to produce food crops.
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The history of all
human civilisation followed...
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each generation able
to develop and progress
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only because the living world
could be relied upon
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to deliver us
the conditions we needed.
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The pace of progress
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was unlike anything
to be found
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in the fossil record.
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Our intelligence changed
the way in which we evolved.
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In the past, animals had to
develop some physical ability
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to change their lives.
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But for us,
an idea could do that.
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And the idea could be passed
from one generation to the next.
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We were transforming
what a species could achieve.
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A few millennia after this began
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I grew up at exactly
the right moment.
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The start of my career in my 20s
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coincided with the advent
of global air travel.
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So, I had the privilege
of being amongst the first
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to fully experience
the bounty of life
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that had come about
as a result of
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the Holocene's gentle climate.
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NUMBERS CLICK
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Wherever I went,
there was wilderness.
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Sparkling coastal seas.
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Vast forests.
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Immense grasslands.
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You could fly for hours
over the untouched wilderness.
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And there I was, actually being
asked to explore these places
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and record the wonders
of the natural world
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for people back home.
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And to begin with,
it was quite easy.
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People had never seen
pangolins before on television.
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They'd never seen sloths before.
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They'd never seen
the centre of New Guinea before.
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It was the best time of my life.
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The best time of our lives.
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The Second World War was over...
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technology was making
our lives easier.
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The pace of change
was getting faster and faster.
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INDISTINCT CHATTER
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It felt that nothing
would limit our progress.
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The future
was going to be exciting.
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It was going to bring
everything we'd ever dreamed of.
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This was before any of us
were aware
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that there were problems.
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NUMBERS CLICK
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My first visit to East Africa
was in 1960.
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Back then,
it seemed inconceivable
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that we, a single species
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might one day have the power
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to threaten the very existence
of the wilderness.
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The Maasai word "Serengeti"
means "endless plains".
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To those who live here,
it's an apt description.
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You can be in one spot
on the Serengeti
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and the place is
totally empty of animals
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and then, the next morning...
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WILDEBEEST GRUNT
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...one million wildebeest...
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WILDEBEEST GRUNT
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...a quarter of a million
zebra...
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ANIMALS YIP
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...half a million gazelle.
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GAZELLE SNORT
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A few days after that...
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and they're gone
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over the horizon.
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You can be forgiven for thinking
that these plains are endless
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when they could swallow up
such a herd.
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It took a visionary scientist,
Bernhard Grzimek
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to explain that
this wasn't true.
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PLANE ROARS
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He and his son used a plane
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to follow the herds
over the horizon.
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WILDEBEEST GRUNT
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ENGINE PURRS
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They charted them
as they moved across rivers
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through woodlands,
and over national borders.
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They discovered
that the Serengeti herds
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required an enormous area of
healthy grassland to function.
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That without such
an immense space
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the herds would diminish
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and the entire ecosystem
would come crashing down.
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The point for me was simple.
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The wild is far from unlimited.
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It's finite.
It needs protecting.
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And a few years later, that idea
became obvious to everyone.
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MAN, OVER RADIO:
Engines are on.
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Four, three, two, one, zero.
— EMISSIONS ROAR
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SIR DAVID:
I was in a television studio
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when the Apollo mission
launched.
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It was the first time
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that any human had moved away
far enough from the Earth
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to see the whole planet.
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And this is what they saw.
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What we all saw.
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Our planet...
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vulnerable and isolated.
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One of the extraordinary things
about it was
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that the world could actually
watch it as it happened.
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It was extraordinary
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that you could see
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what a man out in space
could see
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as he saw it at the same time.
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And I remember
very well that first shot.
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You saw a blue marble,
a blue sphere in the blackness
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and you realised that
that was the Earth.
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And in that one shot
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there was the whole of humanity
with nothing else
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except the person
that was in the spacecraft
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taking that picture.
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And that completely changed
the mindset of the population
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the human population
of the world.
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Our home was not limitless.
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There was an edge
to our existence.
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It was a rediscovery
of a fundamental truth.
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We are ultimately bound by
and reliant upon
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the finite natural world
about us.
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This truth defined the life
we led in our pre-history
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the time before farming
and civilisation.
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Even as some of us
were setting foot on the moon
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others were still
leading such a life
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in the most remote parts
of the planet.
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BIRDSONG
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In 1971, I set out to find
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an uncontacted tribe
in New Guinea.
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MEN SPEAK LOCAL LANGUAGE
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These people were
hunter-gatherers...
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as all humankind
had been before farming.
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MAN SPEAKS LOCAL LANGUAGE
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They lived in small numbers
and didn't take too much.
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MAN SPEAKS LOCAL LANGUAGE
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They ate meat rarely.
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The resources they used
naturally renewed themselves.
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Working with their
traditional technology
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they were living sustainably...
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a lifestyle that could continue,
effectively, forever.
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MAN SPEAKS LOCAL LANGUAGE
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It was a stark contrast
to the world I knew...
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a world that demanded
more every day.
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NUMBERS CLICK
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I spent the latter half of
the 1970s travelling the world
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making a series
I had long dreamed of
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called Life on Earth...
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the story of the evolution
of life and its diversity.
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It was shot in 39 countries.
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We filmed 650 species
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and we travelled
1.5 million miles.
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That's the sort
of commitment you need
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if you want to even begin making
a portrait of the living world.
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But it was noticeable
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that some of these animals
were becoming harder to find.
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When I filmed with
the mountain gorillas
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there were only 300 left
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in a remote jungle
in Central Africa.
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Baby gorillas
were at a premium
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and poachers would kill
a dozen adults to get one.
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I got as close as I did
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only because the gorillas
were used to people.
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GORILLAS GRUNT
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The only way to keep them alive
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was for rangers to be
with them every day.
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The process of extinction
I'd seen as a boy...
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in the rocks...
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I now became aware was happening
right there around me...
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to animals
with which I was familiar.
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Our closest relatives.
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And we were responsible.
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It revealed a cold reality.
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Once a species
became our target...
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there was now nowhere on Earth
that it could hide.
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HARPOON BLASTS
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Whales were being slaughtered
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by fleets of industrial
whaling ships in the 1970s.
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The largest whales, the blues
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numbered only
a few thousand by then.
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BLOWHOLE WHOOSHES
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They were virtually
impossible to find.
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We found humpbacks off Hawaii
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only by listening out
for their calls.
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A moment ago,
we made this recording
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With an underwater microphone
here in the Pacific near Hawaii.
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Just listen to this.
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WHALES SING ON TAPE
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WHALES SING
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SIR DAVID:
Recordings like these
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revealed that the songs
of the humpbacks
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are long and complex.
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Humpbacks living
in the same area
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learn their songs
from each other.
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And the songs have distinct
themes and variations
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which evolve over time.
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WHALES SING
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Their mournful songs
were the key
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to transforming people's
opinions about them.
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MAN SPEAKS IN RUSSIAN
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MAN, OVER MEGAPHONE:
Hello, Boctok. We are Canadian.
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Please stop killing the whales.
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SIR DAVID:
Animals that had been viewed
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as little more than
a source of oil and meat
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became personalities.
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MAN, OVER MEGAPHONE:
We are men and women
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and we speak for children.
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And we 're all saying
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"Please stop killing
the whales. "
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We have pursued animals
to extinction
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many times in our history.
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But now that it was visible,
it was no longer acceptable.
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WHALE SINGS
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The killing of whales turned
from a harvest to a crime.
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A powerful shared conscience
had suddenly appeared.
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Nobody wanted animals
to become extinct.
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People were coming to care
for the natural world...
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as they were made aware
of the natural world.
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And we now had the means
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to make people across the world
aware.
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"LIFE ON EARTH" TV THEME PLAYS
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SIR DAVID: By the time
Life on Earth aired in 1979
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I had entered my 50s.
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There were twice the number
of people on the planet
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as there were when I was born.
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You and I belong
to the most widespread
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and dominant species
of animal on Earth.
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We're certainly the most
numerous large animal.
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There are something like
4,000 million of us today
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and we've reached this position
with meteoric speed.
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It's all happened within
the last 2,000 years or so.
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We seem to have broken loose
from the restrictions
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that have governed
the activities
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and numbers of other animals.
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SIR DAVID:
We had broken loose.
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We were apart from
the rest of life on Earth...
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living a different kind of life.
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Our predators
had been eliminated.
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Most of our diseases
were under control.
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We had worked out
how to produce food to order.
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There was nothing left
to restrict us...
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nothing to stop us...
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unless we stopped ourselves.
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We would keep
consuming the Earth
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until we had used it up.
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Saving individual species
or even groups of species
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would not be enough.
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Whole habitats would
soon start to disappear.
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I first witnessed
the destruction
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of an entire habitat
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in Southeast Asia.
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In the 1950s
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Borneo was three-quarters
covered with rainforest.
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SIR DAVID, ON TV:
We heard a crashing
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in the branches ahead.
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And there,
only a few yards away
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we spotted
a great furry red form
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swaying in the trees.
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The orangutan.
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SIR DAVID:
By the end of the century
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Borneo's rainforest
had been reduced by half.
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BIRDS TRILL
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Rainforests are
particularly precious habitats.
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More than half of
the species on land live here.
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BIRD WHOOPS
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They're places in which
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evolution's talent
for design soars.
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BIRD TRILLS
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BIRD CAWS
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BIRD SQUAWKS
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BIRD CLICKS
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BIRD CLICKS
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LEAVES RUSTLE
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Many of the millions
of species in the forest
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exist in small numbers.
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Every one has
a critical role to play.
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Orangutan mothers have to spend
ten years with their young
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teaching them
which fruits are worth eating.
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Without this training
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they would not complete
their role in dispersing seeds.
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The future generations of many
tree species would be at risk.
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And tree diversity
is the key to a rainforest.
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BIRDS WHOOP AND TWITTER
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In a single small patch
of tropical rainforest
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there could be
700 different species of tree
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as many as there are
in the whole of North America.
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And yet...
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this is what we've been turning
this dizzying diversity into...
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a monoculture of oil palm.
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A habitat that is dead
in comparison.
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And you see
this curtain of green
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with occasionally birds in it
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and you think it's perhaps OK.
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But if you get in a helicopter
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you see that that is a strip
about half-a-mile wide.
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And beyond that strip
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out there is nothing but
regimented rows of oil palms.
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CHAINSAWS BUZZ
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There is a double incentive
to cut down forests.
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CHAINSAW BUZZES
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People benefit from the timber
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and then benefit again
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from farming the land
that's left behind.
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CHAINSAW BUZZES
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TIMBER CREAKS
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TIMBER CRASHES
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TIMBER CREAKS
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Which is why we've cut down
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three trillion trees
across the world.
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Half of the world's rainforests
have already been cleared.
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What we see happening today
is just the latest chapter
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in a global process
spanning millennia.
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The deforestation of Borneo
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has reduced
the population of orangutan
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by two-thirds since I first
saw one just over 60 years ago.
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We can't cut down
rainforests forever
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and anything that
we can't do forever
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is, by definition,
unsustainable.
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If we do things
that are unsustainable
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the damage accumulates...
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ultimately, to a point where
the whole system collapses.
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No ecosystem,
no matter how big, is secure.
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Even one as vast as the ocean.
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This habitat was the subject
of the series The Blue Planet
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which we were filming
in the late '90s.
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NUMBERS CLICK
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It was an astonishing vision
of a completely unknown world
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a world that had existed
since the beginning of time.
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All sorts of things that
you'd no idea had ever existed
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all in a multitude of colours,
all unbelievably beautiful.
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And all of them completely
undisturbed by your presence.
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For much of its expanse,
the ocean is largely empty.
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But in certain places,
there are hotspots
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where currents bring
nutrients to the surface
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and trigger
an explosion of life.
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In such places,
huge shoals of fish gather.
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The problem is
that our fishing fleets
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are just as good at finding
those hotspots
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as are the fish.
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When they do,
they're able to gather
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the concentrated shoals
with ease.
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It was only in the '50s
that large fleets
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first ventured out
into international waters...
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to reap the open-ocean harvest
across the globe.
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Yet they've removed 90 per cent
of the large fish in the sea.
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At first, they caught
plenty of fish in their nets.
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But within only a few years
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the nets across the globe
were coming in empty.
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The fishing quickly
became so poor...
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that countries began
to subsidise the fleets
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to maintain the industry.
517
00:38:34,854 --> 00:38:38,107
Without large fish
and other marine predators
518
00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:41,569
the oceanic
nutrient cycle stutters.
519
00:38:48,493 --> 00:38:50,829
The predators help
to keep nutrients
520
00:38:50,912 --> 00:38:53,206
in the ocean's sunlit waters
521
00:38:53,289 --> 00:38:54,374
recycling them
522
00:38:54,457 --> 00:38:57,836
so they can be used
again and again by plankton.
523
00:39:02,715 --> 00:39:04,175
Without predators
524
00:39:04,259 --> 00:39:07,470
nutrients are lost
for centuries to the depths
525
00:39:07,554 --> 00:39:10,181
and the hotspots
start to diminish.
526
00:39:11,724 --> 00:39:14,060
The ocean starts to die.
527
00:39:19,649 --> 00:39:24,028
Ocean life was also
unravelling in the shallows.
528
00:39:29,701 --> 00:39:33,079
In 1998, a Blue Planet film crew
529
00:39:33,162 --> 00:39:36,124
stumbled on an event
little known at the time.
530
00:39:40,169 --> 00:39:43,256
Coral reefs were turning white.
531
00:39:47,886 --> 00:39:52,015
The white colour is caused
by corals expelling algae
532
00:39:52,098 --> 00:39:54,893
that lives symbiotically
within their body.
533
00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:03,610
When you first see it
534
00:40:03,693 --> 00:40:06,070
you think perhaps
that it's beautiful
535
00:40:06,154 --> 00:40:08,114
and suddenly
you realise it's tragic.
536
00:40:08,656 --> 00:40:11,034
Because what you're looking at
is skeletons.
537
00:40:11,576 --> 00:40:13,745
Skeletons of dead creatures.
538
00:40:21,753 --> 00:40:25,548
The white corals are
ultimately smothered by seaweed.
539
00:40:26,466 --> 00:40:29,177
And the reef turns
from wonderland...
540
00:40:30,511 --> 00:40:31,930
to wasteland.
541
00:40:36,809 --> 00:40:40,146
At first, the cause of
the bleaching was a mystery.
542
00:40:40,229 --> 00:40:42,732
But scientists
started to discover
543
00:40:42,815 --> 00:40:44,984
that in many cases
where bleaching occurred
544
00:40:45,944 --> 00:40:47,820
the ocean was warming.
545
00:40:48,780 --> 00:40:51,950
For some time,
climate scientists had warned
546
00:40:52,033 --> 00:40:55,328
that the planet would get warmer
as we burned fossil fuels
547
00:40:55,411 --> 00:40:59,040
and released carbon dioxide
and other greenhouse gases
548
00:40:59,123 --> 00:41:00,333
into the atmosphere.
549
00:41:03,127 --> 00:41:04,462
LAVA ROARS
550
00:41:04,545 --> 00:41:06,839
A marked change
in atmospheric carbon
551
00:41:06,923 --> 00:41:10,218
has always been incompatible
with a stable Earth.
552
00:41:11,177 --> 00:41:14,764
It was a feature of
all five mass extinctions.
553
00:41:15,223 --> 00:41:16,766
LAVA ROARS
554
00:41:20,103 --> 00:41:21,479
In previous events
555
00:41:21,562 --> 00:41:25,733
it had taken volcanic activity
up to one million years
556
00:41:25,817 --> 00:41:28,653
to dredge up enough carbon
from within the earth
557
00:41:28,736 --> 00:41:30,238
to trigger a catastrophe.
558
00:41:33,074 --> 00:41:35,159
By burning millions of
years' worth
559
00:41:35,243 --> 00:41:37,578
of living organisms
all at once
560
00:41:37,662 --> 00:41:39,372
as coal and oil...
561
00:41:39,998 --> 00:41:43,751
we have managed to do so
in less than 200.
562
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,505
The global air temperature
563
00:41:47,588 --> 00:41:50,383
had been relatively stable
till the '90s
564
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,970
but it now appeared
this was only because the ocean
565
00:41:54,053 --> 00:41:56,180
was absorbing much of
the excess heat
566
00:41:56,848 --> 00:41:58,599
masking our impact.
567
00:42:01,978 --> 00:42:04,147
It was the first
indication to me
568
00:42:04,230 --> 00:42:07,650
that the Earth was beginning
to lose its balance.
569
00:42:08,317 --> 00:42:10,528
WIND WHOOSHES
— ICE CREAKS
570
00:42:16,034 --> 00:42:18,536
The most remote habitat of all
571
00:42:18,619 --> 00:42:22,707
exists at the extreme north
and south of the planet.
572
00:42:27,045 --> 00:42:30,590
I've visited the polar regions
over many decades.
573
00:42:35,386 --> 00:42:38,765
They've always been a place
beyond imagination...
574
00:42:39,599 --> 00:42:42,310
with scenery unlike
anything else on Earth...
575
00:42:44,353 --> 00:42:49,317
and unique species adapted
to a life in the extreme.
576
00:42:53,279 --> 00:42:55,448
But that distant world
is changing.
577
00:42:58,659 --> 00:43:03,498
In my time, I've experienced
the warming of Arctic summers.
578
00:43:06,584 --> 00:43:08,294
We have arrived at locations
579
00:43:08,377 --> 00:43:11,047
expecting to find
expanses of sea ice
580
00:43:11,464 --> 00:43:12,924
and found none.
581
00:43:15,843 --> 00:43:17,720
We've managed to travel by boat
582
00:43:17,804 --> 00:43:21,307
to islands that were impossible
to get to historically
583
00:43:21,390 --> 00:43:24,102
because they were
permanently locked in the ice.
584
00:43:27,355 --> 00:43:32,235
By the time Frozen Planet
aired in 2011
585
00:43:32,568 --> 00:43:35,530
the reasons for these changes
was well established.
586
00:43:40,493 --> 00:43:44,122
The ocean has long since
become unable to absorb
587
00:43:44,205 --> 00:43:48,209
all the excess heat
caused by our activities.
588
00:43:49,377 --> 00:43:52,505
As a result, the average
global temperature today
589
00:43:52,588 --> 00:43:56,968
is one degree Celsius warmer
than it was when I was born.
590
00:43:57,426 --> 00:43:58,970
ICE RUMBLES AND CRASHES
591
00:44:02,557 --> 00:44:07,520
A speed of change that exceeds
any in the last 10,000 years.
592
00:44:07,603 --> 00:44:09,522
ICE CRASHES AND RUMBLES
593
00:44:15,278 --> 00:44:17,280
Summer sea ice in the Arctic
594
00:44:17,363 --> 00:44:20,950
has reduced by
40 per cent in 40 years.
595
00:44:23,077 --> 00:44:25,872
Our planet is losing its ice.
596
00:44:26,539 --> 00:44:28,249
ICE CRASHES
597
00:44:31,836 --> 00:44:35,339
This most pristine
and distant of ecosystems
598
00:44:35,923 --> 00:44:37,550
is headed for disaster.
599
00:44:55,693 --> 00:44:58,946
Our imprint is now
truly global...
600
00:44:59,906 --> 00:45:02,825
our impact now truly profound.
601
00:45:03,451 --> 00:45:06,579
Our blind assault on the planet
has finally come
602
00:45:06,662 --> 00:45:09,999
to alter the very fundamentals
of the living world.
603
00:45:18,758 --> 00:45:22,386
We have overfished
30 per cent of fish stocks
604
00:45:22,470 --> 00:45:23,596
to critical levels.
605
00:45:26,349 --> 00:45:30,436
We cut down over
15 billion trees each year.
606
00:45:30,561 --> 00:45:32,021
BIRDS TRILL
607
00:45:33,231 --> 00:45:35,066
By damming, polluting
608
00:45:35,149 --> 00:45:37,777
and over-extracting
rivers and lakes
609
00:45:37,860 --> 00:45:40,696
we've reduced the size
of freshwater populations
610
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:43,157
by over 80 per cent.
611
00:45:44,575 --> 00:45:48,079
We're replacing
the wild with the tame.
612
00:45:52,250 --> 00:45:57,255
Half of the fertile land
on Earth is now farmland.
613
00:46:04,262 --> 00:46:07,974
Seventy per cent of the mass
of birds on this planet
614
00:46:08,057 --> 00:46:09,725
are domestic birds.
615
00:46:10,309 --> 00:46:13,104
The vast majority, chickens.
616
00:46:17,441 --> 00:46:22,530
We account for over one third of
the weight of mammals on Earth.
617
00:46:23,531 --> 00:46:27,576
A further 60 per cent are
the animals we raise to eat.
618
00:46:32,873 --> 00:46:38,087
The rest, from mice to whales,
make up just four per cent.
619
00:46:41,549 --> 00:46:44,260
This is now our planet
620
00:46:44,343 --> 00:46:47,513
run by humankind for humankind.
621
00:46:48,014 --> 00:46:51,392
There is little left for
the rest of the living world.
622
00:46:57,857 --> 00:47:00,568
Since I started filming
in the 1950s
623
00:47:01,152 --> 00:47:04,280
on average,
wild animal populations
624
00:47:04,697 --> 00:47:06,532
have more than halved.
625
00:47:09,368 --> 00:47:12,955
I look at these images now,
and I realise that
626
00:47:13,039 --> 00:47:14,165
although as a young man
627
00:47:14,248 --> 00:47:16,250
I felt I was out there
in the wild
628
00:47:16,334 --> 00:47:19,587
experiencing
the untouched natural world...
629
00:47:20,546 --> 00:47:22,089
it was an illusion.
630
00:47:24,008 --> 00:47:28,679
Those forests and plains
and seas were already emptying.
631
00:47:33,893 --> 00:47:36,687
Um, so, the world
is not as wild as it was.
632
00:47:38,314 --> 00:47:39,523
Well, we've destroyed it...
633
00:47:40,274 --> 00:47:41,692
not just ruined it.
634
00:47:41,776 --> 00:47:43,361
I mean, we have completely...
635
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,238
well, destroyed that world.
636
00:47:46,322 --> 00:47:49,075
That non-human world is...
is gone.
637
00:47:50,034 --> 00:47:51,243
Uh...
HE STAMMERS
638
00:47:51,702 --> 00:47:53,788
Human beings
have overrun the world.
639
00:48:35,955 --> 00:48:39,333
That is my witness statement.
640
00:48:40,167 --> 00:48:44,755
A story of global decline
during a single lifetime.
641
00:48:49,927 --> 00:48:52,138
But it doesn't end there.
642
00:48:53,806 --> 00:48:56,225
If we continue
on our current course
643
00:48:56,308 --> 00:48:58,978
the damage that has been
the defining feature
644
00:48:59,061 --> 00:49:00,396
of my lifetime
645
00:49:00,479 --> 00:49:04,733
will be eclipsed by the damage
coming in the next.
646
00:49:06,652 --> 00:49:08,279
NUMBERS CLICK
647
00:49:16,579 --> 00:49:21,167
Science predicts
that were I born today
648
00:49:21,750 --> 00:49:24,420
I would be witness
to the following.
649
00:49:24,962 --> 00:49:26,297
FIRE CRACKLES
650
00:49:29,675 --> 00:49:31,093
The Amazon Rainforest...
651
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:35,556
cut down until it can no longer
produce enough moisture...
652
00:49:36,599 --> 00:49:38,767
degrades into a dry savannah
653
00:49:39,685 --> 00:49:42,146
bringing
catastrophic species loss...
654
00:49:43,689 --> 00:49:46,817
and altering
the global water cycle.
655
00:49:53,866 --> 00:49:58,204
At the same time, the Arctic
becomes ice-free in the summer.
656
00:50:01,332 --> 00:50:03,167
Without the white icecap
657
00:50:03,667 --> 00:50:06,921
less of the sun's energy
is reflected back out to Space.
658
00:50:08,506 --> 00:50:11,926
And the speed
of global warming increases.
659
00:50:12,343 --> 00:50:13,677
MUD CRASHES
660
00:50:18,516 --> 00:50:22,436
Throughout the north,
frozen soils thaw
661
00:50:22,895 --> 00:50:24,230
releasing methane
662
00:50:24,980 --> 00:50:29,318
a greenhouse gas many times
more potent than carbon dioxide
663
00:50:30,694 --> 00:50:34,657
accelerating the rate
of climate change, dramatically.
664
00:50:42,706 --> 00:50:45,960
As the ocean continues to heat
and becomes more acidic
665
00:50:46,544 --> 00:50:49,171
coral reefs
around the world die.
666
00:50:53,300 --> 00:50:55,886
Fish populations crash.
667
00:51:04,770 --> 00:51:07,773
Global food production
enters a crisis
668
00:51:08,190 --> 00:51:10,943
as soils become
exhausted by overuse.
669
00:51:19,952 --> 00:51:22,288
Pollinating insects disappear.
670
00:51:22,871 --> 00:51:24,665
THUNDER CRACKS
671
00:51:24,748 --> 00:51:27,960
And the weather is
more and more unpredictable.
672
00:51:33,841 --> 00:51:37,595
Our planet becomes
four degrees Celsius warmer.
673
00:51:39,722 --> 00:51:43,684
Large parts of the Earth
are uninhabitable.
674
00:51:44,602 --> 00:51:45,853
HIPPOS SNUFFLE
675
00:51:47,187 --> 00:51:50,149
Millions of people,
rendered homeless.
676
00:51:53,611 --> 00:51:56,280
A sixth mass extinction event...
677
00:51:57,406 --> 00:51:58,991
is well underway.
678
00:51:59,074 --> 00:52:00,326
WIND WHIPS
679
00:52:05,623 --> 00:52:09,460
This is a series
of one—way doors...
680
00:52:10,836 --> 00:52:13,047
bringing irreversible change.
681
00:52:15,507 --> 00:52:17,718
Within the span
of the next lifetime...
682
00:52:18,886 --> 00:52:21,889
the security and stability
of the Holocene...
683
00:52:23,599 --> 00:52:25,601
our Garden of Eden...
684
00:52:27,353 --> 00:52:28,520
will be lost.
685
00:52:28,604 --> 00:52:30,189
WIND WHIPS
686
00:52:34,777 --> 00:52:36,403
APPLAUSE
687
00:52:37,863 --> 00:52:40,949
Right now, we're facing
a manmade disaster...
688
00:52:41,867 --> 00:52:43,619
of global scale.
689
00:52:44,912 --> 00:52:47,289
Our greatest threat
in thousands of years.
690
00:52:48,374 --> 00:52:49,958
If we don't take action
691
00:52:50,584 --> 00:52:52,961
the collapse
of our civilisations
692
00:52:53,962 --> 00:52:57,257
and the extinction
of much of the natural world
693
00:52:58,300 --> 00:52:59,510
is on the horizon.
694
00:53:00,219 --> 00:53:01,595
But the longer we leave it
695
00:53:02,012 --> 00:53:05,557
the more difficult it'll be
to do something about it.
696
00:53:06,433 --> 00:53:08,102
And you could happily retire.
697
00:53:09,770 --> 00:53:13,982
But you now want to explain
to us what peril...
698
00:53:14,983 --> 00:53:15,984
we are in.
699
00:53:17,152 --> 00:53:18,070
Um...
700
00:53:18,570 --> 00:53:24,368
And, in a way, I-I wish I wasn't
involved in this struggle.
701
00:53:24,451 --> 00:53:25,411
HE CHUCKLES
702
00:53:25,494 --> 00:53:27,913
Because I wish the struggle
wasn't there or necessary.
703
00:53:28,414 --> 00:53:32,626
But I've had unbelievable luck
and good fortune...
704
00:53:33,544 --> 00:53:38,215
um, and I certainly
would feel very guilty...
705
00:53:39,341 --> 00:53:44,471
if I saw what the problems are
and decided to ignore them.
706
00:53:44,555 --> 00:53:46,014
APPLAUSE
707
00:53:47,558 --> 00:53:50,060
SIR DAVID, ON VIDEO: Climbing
over the tightly-packed bodies
708
00:53:50,144 --> 00:53:52,312
is the only way
across the crowd.
709
00:53:52,396 --> 00:53:54,064
WALRUSES GROWL
710
00:53:54,148 --> 00:53:56,442
Those beneath
can get crushed to death.
711
00:53:57,901 --> 00:53:59,528
WALRUSES GROWL
712
00:54:00,446 --> 00:54:01,989
VIDEO CONTINUES PLAYING
713
00:54:14,376 --> 00:54:16,837
SIR DAVID:
We are facing nothing less
714
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,131
than the collapse
of the living world.
715
00:54:21,300 --> 00:54:24,595
The very thing that gave birth
to our civilisation.
716
00:54:26,096 --> 00:54:30,309
The thing we rely upon for every
element of the lives we lead.
717
00:54:33,771 --> 00:54:35,689
No one wants this to happen.
718
00:54:36,648 --> 00:54:39,485
None of us can afford
for it to happen.
719
00:54:43,322 --> 00:54:45,282
So, what do we do?
720
00:54:47,284 --> 00:54:48,911
It's quite straightforward.
721
00:54:50,287 --> 00:54:52,873
It's been staring us
in the face all along.
722
00:54:55,167 --> 00:54:57,294
To restore stability
to our planet...
723
00:54:58,462 --> 00:55:01,507
we must restore
its biodiversity...
724
00:55:03,425 --> 00:55:05,719
the very thing
that we've removed.
725
00:55:10,098 --> 00:55:13,852
It's the only way out of
this crisis we have created.
726
00:55:16,939 --> 00:55:19,983
We must rewild the world.
727
00:55:23,111 --> 00:55:24,571
REINDEER GRUNT
728
00:55:26,657 --> 00:55:28,659
BIRDS WHOOP
729
00:55:30,410 --> 00:55:31,995
BIRDS CAW
730
00:55:40,003 --> 00:55:41,588
BUFFALO GRUNT
731
00:55:47,094 --> 00:55:48,637
BIRDS CAW
732
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:53,725
ELEPHANT TRUMPETS
733
00:56:00,148 --> 00:56:04,194
Rewilding the world
is simpler than you might think.
734
00:56:04,778 --> 00:56:06,572
And the changes we have to make
735
00:56:06,655 --> 00:56:10,492
will only benefit ourselves
and the generations that follow.
736
00:56:11,785 --> 00:56:15,956
A century from now, our planet
could be a wild place again.
737
00:56:16,874 --> 00:56:18,667
And I'm going to tell you how.
738
00:56:19,918 --> 00:56:21,545
BIRDS TWITTER AND SQUAWK
739
00:56:26,466 --> 00:56:28,552
Every other species on Earth
740
00:56:28,635 --> 00:56:32,180
reaches a maximum population
after a time.
741
00:56:33,765 --> 00:56:35,475
The number that can be sustained
742
00:56:35,559 --> 00:56:38,061
on the natural resources
available.
743
00:56:40,939 --> 00:56:42,149
With nothing to restrict us
744
00:56:42,232 --> 00:56:45,527
our population has
been growing dramatically
745
00:56:45,611 --> 00:56:46,987
throughout my lifetime.
746
00:56:47,070 --> 00:56:48,030
CROWD CHANTS
747
00:56:48,113 --> 00:56:49,907
On current projections
748
00:56:49,948 --> 00:56:55,412
there will be 11 billion people
on Earth by 2100.
749
00:56:56,455 --> 00:57:00,751
But it's possible to slow,
even to stop, population growth
750
00:57:00,834 --> 00:57:03,462
well before it reaches
that point.
751
00:57:08,425 --> 00:57:11,553
Japan's standard of living
climbed rapidly
752
00:57:11,637 --> 00:57:14,306
in the latter half
of the 20th century.
753
00:57:15,349 --> 00:57:17,935
As healthcare
and education improved
754
00:57:18,268 --> 00:57:21,480
people's expectations
and opportunities grew
755
00:57:21,939 --> 00:57:23,982
and the birthrate fell.
756
00:57:25,817 --> 00:57:29,488
In 1950, a Japanese family
was likely to have
757
00:57:29,571 --> 00:57:31,281
three or more children.
758
00:57:32,658 --> 00:57:36,870
By 1975, the average was two.
759
00:57:39,790 --> 00:57:43,502
The result is that the
population has now stabilised
760
00:57:43,585 --> 00:57:46,338
and has hardly changed
since the millennium.
761
00:57:48,507 --> 00:57:50,926
There are signs that
this has started to happen
762
00:57:51,009 --> 00:57:52,344
across the globe.
763
00:57:55,180 --> 00:57:57,015
As nations develop everywhere
764
00:57:57,099 --> 00:57:59,768
people choose
to have fewer children.
765
00:58:04,064 --> 00:58:07,401
The number of children
being born worldwide every year
766
00:58:08,068 --> 00:58:09,945
is about to level off.
767
00:58:12,322 --> 00:58:14,700
A key reason the population
is still growing
768
00:58:15,867 --> 00:58:17,744
is because many of us
are living longer.
769
00:58:20,163 --> 00:58:21,790
At some point in the future
770
00:58:22,457 --> 00:58:26,336
the human population will peak
for the very first time.
771
00:58:26,420 --> 00:58:27,796
LOW HUBBUB
772
00:58:27,879 --> 00:58:29,381
The sooner it happens
773
00:58:29,464 --> 00:58:32,843
the easier it makes
everything else we have to do.
774
00:58:33,093 --> 00:58:34,803
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
775
00:58:37,347 --> 00:58:40,142
By working hard to raise
people out of poverty...
776
00:58:41,143 --> 00:58:43,520
giving all
access to healthcare...
777
00:58:44,396 --> 00:58:46,481
and enabling girls,
in particular
778
00:58:46,565 --> 00:58:49,026
to stay in school
as long as possible
779
00:58:49,443 --> 00:58:53,196
we can make it peak sooner
and at a lower level.
780
00:58:55,198 --> 00:58:57,159
Why wouldn't we want
to do these things?
781
00:58:57,826 --> 00:58:59,911
Giving people
a greater opportunity of life
782
00:58:59,995 --> 00:59:01,913
is what we would
want to do anyway.
783
00:59:02,831 --> 00:59:05,500
The trick is to raise
the standard of living
784
00:59:05,584 --> 00:59:06,668
around the world
785
00:59:07,085 --> 00:59:10,297
without increasing
our impact on that world.
786
00:59:10,672 --> 00:59:12,132
That may sound impossible
787
00:59:12,215 --> 00:59:14,801
but there are ways
in which we can do this.
788
00:59:24,436 --> 00:59:27,939
The living world is,
essentially, solar-powered.
789
00:59:31,068 --> 00:59:32,944
The Earth's plants capture
790
00:59:33,028 --> 00:59:37,699
three trillion kilowatt-hours
of solar energy each day.
791
00:59:38,867 --> 00:59:42,496
That's almost 20 times
the energy we need...
792
00:59:43,413 --> 00:59:44,748
just from sunlight.
793
00:59:49,377 --> 00:59:53,215
Imagine if we
phased out fossil fuels
794
00:59:53,298 --> 00:59:54,841
and ran our world
795
00:59:54,925 --> 00:59:58,011
on the eternal energies
of Nature, too.
796
00:59:59,179 --> 01:00:04,101
Sunlight, wind,
water and geothermal.
797
01:00:10,690 --> 01:00:12,192
At the turn of the century
798
01:00:12,651 --> 01:00:16,238
Morocco relied on
imported oil and gas
799
01:00:16,321 --> 01:00:18,824
for almost all of its energy.
800
01:00:19,324 --> 01:00:24,079
Today, it generates
40 per cent of its needs at home
801
01:00:24,162 --> 01:00:27,165
from a network
of renewable power plants...
802
01:00:27,249 --> 01:00:30,460
including the world's
largest solar farm.
803
01:00:34,798 --> 01:00:36,716
Sitting on the edge
of the Sahara...
804
01:00:37,467 --> 01:00:39,970
and cabled directly
into southern Europe...
805
01:00:40,887 --> 01:00:46,518
Morocco could be an exporter
of solar energy by 2050.
806
01:00:53,733 --> 01:00:57,154
Within 20 years,
renewables are predicted
807
01:00:57,279 --> 01:01:00,031
to be the world's
main source of power.
808
01:01:01,867 --> 01:01:04,536
But we can make them
the only source.
809
01:01:05,704 --> 01:01:09,291
It's crazy that our banks
and our pensions
810
01:01:09,791 --> 01:01:11,960
are investing in fossil fuel...
811
01:01:13,044 --> 01:01:14,921
when these are the very things
812
01:01:15,005 --> 01:01:18,425
that are jeopardising the future
that we are saving for.
813
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:21,219
SIRENS WAIL
814
01:01:21,303 --> 01:01:24,556
A renewable future
will be full of benefits.
815
01:01:25,473 --> 01:01:28,393
Energy everywhere
will be more affordable.
816
01:01:30,145 --> 01:01:32,731
Our cities will be
cleaner and quieter.
817
01:01:34,274 --> 01:01:37,360
And renewable energy
will never run out.
818
01:01:41,990 --> 01:01:43,950
TWINKLING NOISE
819
01:01:52,959 --> 01:01:56,713
The living world can't operate
without a healthy ocean.
820
01:01:57,172 --> 01:01:58,381
And neither can we.
821
01:02:05,222 --> 01:02:07,015
The ocean is a critical ally
822
01:02:07,098 --> 01:02:09,976
in our battle to reduce carbon
in the atmosphere.
823
01:02:13,313 --> 01:02:17,359
The more diverse it is,
the better it does that job.
824
01:02:21,279 --> 01:02:23,073
WHALES SING
825
01:02:35,043 --> 01:02:38,630
And, of course, the ocean
is important to all of us
826
01:02:39,089 --> 01:02:40,423
as a source of food.
827
01:02:43,301 --> 01:02:46,554
Fishing is the world's
greatest wild harvest.
828
01:02:47,222 --> 01:02:50,058
And if we do it right,
it can continue...
829
01:02:51,518 --> 01:02:54,479
because there's
a win-win at play.
830
01:02:55,855 --> 01:02:57,899
The healthier
the marine habitat
831
01:02:57,983 --> 01:02:59,526
the more fish there will be
832
01:03:00,110 --> 01:03:01,861
and the more
there will be to eat.
833
01:03:09,369 --> 01:03:12,664
Palau is a Pacific Island nation
834
01:03:13,290 --> 01:03:17,502
reliant on its coral reefs
for fish and tourism.
835
01:03:22,173 --> 01:03:24,592
When fish stocks
began to reduce
836
01:03:24,676 --> 01:03:28,805
the Palauans responded
by restricting fishing practices
837
01:03:28,888 --> 01:03:32,225
and banning fishing entirely
from many areas.
838
01:03:36,021 --> 01:03:39,858
Protected fish populations
soon became so healthy
839
01:03:39,941 --> 01:03:43,278
they spilt over
into the areas open to fishing.
840
01:03:48,950 --> 01:03:51,745
As a result, the "no fish" zones
841
01:03:51,828 --> 01:03:54,372
have increased the catch
of the local fishermen
842
01:03:54,456 --> 01:03:58,293
while at the same time
allowing the reefs to recover.
843
01:04:03,590 --> 01:04:06,593
Imagine if we committed
to a similar approach
844
01:04:06,676 --> 01:04:07,927
across the world.
845
01:04:09,262 --> 01:04:11,931
Estimates suggest
that "no fish" zones
846
01:04:12,015 --> 01:04:14,351
over a third of our coastal seas
847
01:04:14,434 --> 01:04:16,311
would be sufficient
to provide us
848
01:04:16,394 --> 01:04:18,688
with all the fish
we will ever need.
849
01:04:24,986 --> 01:04:29,115
In international waters,
the UN is attempting to create
850
01:04:29,199 --> 01:04:32,160
the biggest
"no fish" zone of all.
851
01:04:34,954 --> 01:04:38,416
In one act, this would
transform the open ocean
852
01:04:38,500 --> 01:04:42,087
from a place exhausted
by subsidised fishing fleets
853
01:04:42,670 --> 01:04:45,882
to a wilderness that
will help us all in our efforts
854
01:04:45,965 --> 01:04:47,884
to combat climate change.
855
01:04:49,719 --> 01:04:52,430
The world's
greatest wildlife reserve.
856
01:05:09,239 --> 01:05:10,615
When it comes to the land...
857
01:05:11,533 --> 01:05:14,619
we must radically reduce
the area we use to farm
858
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:17,664
so that we can make space
for returning wilderness.
859
01:05:18,039 --> 01:05:20,708
And the quickest and most
effective way to do that
860
01:05:20,792 --> 01:05:23,002
is for us to change our diet.
861
01:05:28,633 --> 01:05:31,052
Large carnivores
are rare in Nature
862
01:05:31,511 --> 01:05:34,764
because it takes a lot of prey
to support each of them.
863
01:05:41,729 --> 01:05:44,649
For every single predator
on the Serengeti
864
01:05:44,732 --> 01:05:47,694
there are more than
100 prey animals.
865
01:05:47,819 --> 01:05:49,279
WILDEBEEST GRUNT
866
01:05:52,198 --> 01:05:54,409
Whenever we choose
a piece of meat
867
01:05:54,492 --> 01:05:56,744
we, too, are
unwittingly demanding
868
01:05:57,162 --> 01:05:59,205
a huge expanse of space.
869
01:06:01,249 --> 01:06:02,834
HERD LOWS IN DISTANCE
870
01:06:04,669 --> 01:06:09,257
The planet can't support
billions of large meat-eaters.
871
01:06:10,091 --> 01:06:11,593
There just isn't the space.
872
01:06:12,135 --> 01:06:13,052
BELL DINGS
873
01:06:14,387 --> 01:06:15,555
ASPARAGUS SIZZLES
874
01:06:16,264 --> 01:06:19,225
If we all had a largely
plant-based diet...
875
01:06:20,268 --> 01:06:23,813
we would need only half the land
we use at the moment.
876
01:06:25,857 --> 01:06:29,360
And because we would be
then dedicated to raising plants
877
01:06:29,777 --> 01:06:33,448
we could increase the yield
of this land substantially.
878
01:06:39,496 --> 01:06:41,748
The Netherlands
is one of the world's
879
01:06:41,831 --> 01:06:44,417
most densely
populated countries.
880
01:06:45,877 --> 01:06:48,838
It's covered with
small family-run farms
881
01:06:49,339 --> 01:06:51,132
with no room for expansion.
882
01:06:54,010 --> 01:06:56,804
So, Dutch farmers
have become expert
883
01:06:56,888 --> 01:06:59,724
at getting the most
out of every hectare.
884
01:07:02,352 --> 01:07:05,313
Increasingly, they're
doing so, sustainably...
885
01:07:08,775 --> 01:07:12,237
raising yields tenfold
in two generations
886
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:14,906
while at the same time
using less water
887
01:07:15,865 --> 01:07:18,826
fewer pesticides,
less fertiliser
888
01:07:19,369 --> 01:07:21,120
and emitting less carbon.
889
01:07:26,209 --> 01:07:28,878
Despite its size,
the Netherlands is now
890
01:07:28,962 --> 01:07:32,715
the world's second largest
exporter of food.
891
01:07:37,679 --> 01:07:40,515
It's entirely possible
for us to apply
892
01:07:40,598 --> 01:07:43,434
both low-tech
and hi-tech solutions
893
01:07:43,518 --> 01:07:46,980
to produce much more food
from much less land.
894
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:52,777
We can start to produce food
in new spaces...
895
01:07:55,488 --> 01:07:58,157
indoors, within cities.
896
01:08:01,661 --> 01:08:04,831
Even in places
where there's no land at all.
897
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:21,014
As we improve
our approach to farming
898
01:08:21,389 --> 01:08:24,017
we'll start to reverse
the land-grab
899
01:08:24,100 --> 01:08:27,395
that we've been pursuing
ever since we began to farm
900
01:08:28,271 --> 01:08:29,772
which is essential
901
01:08:29,856 --> 01:08:34,319
because we have an urgent need
for all that free land.
902
01:08:41,659 --> 01:08:44,829
Forests are
a fundamental component
903
01:08:44,912 --> 01:08:46,456
of our planet's recovery.
904
01:08:48,374 --> 01:08:51,127
They are the best technology
Nature has
905
01:08:51,210 --> 01:08:52,795
for locking away carbon.
906
01:08:54,839 --> 01:08:57,425
And they are centres
of biodiversity.
907
01:09:01,888 --> 01:09:04,724
Again, the two features
work together.
908
01:09:05,516 --> 01:09:08,394
The wilder and more diverse
forests are
909
01:09:08,478 --> 01:09:10,063
the more effective they are
910
01:09:10,146 --> 01:09:12,649
at absorbing carbon
from the atmosphere.
911
01:09:14,859 --> 01:09:19,238
We must immediately halt
deforestation everywhere...
912
01:09:20,323 --> 01:09:22,909
and grow crops
like oil palm and soya
913
01:09:23,201 --> 01:09:26,704
only on land that was
deforested long ago.
914
01:09:28,164 --> 01:09:30,541
After all, there's plenty of it.
915
01:09:32,752 --> 01:09:34,420
But we can do better than that.
916
01:09:38,633 --> 01:09:42,595
A century ago, more than
three quarters of Costa Rica
917
01:09:42,679 --> 01:09:44,347
was covered with forest.
918
01:09:52,480 --> 01:09:56,275
By the 1980s, uncontrolled
logging had reduced this
919
01:09:56,359 --> 01:09:58,027
to just one quarter.
920
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:03,032
The government decided to act
921
01:10:03,408 --> 01:10:08,037
offering grants to land owners
to replant native trees.
922
01:10:12,792 --> 01:10:14,877
In just 25 years
923
01:10:14,961 --> 01:10:19,841
the forest has returned to cover
half of Costa Rica once again.
924
01:10:20,842 --> 01:10:22,301
BIRDS CHIRP
925
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:29,600
Just imagine if we achieve this
on a global scale.
926
01:10:32,729 --> 01:10:34,772
The return of the trees
would absorb
927
01:10:34,856 --> 01:10:37,942
as much as two thirds
of the carbon emissions
928
01:10:38,025 --> 01:10:40,069
that have been pumped
into the atmosphere
929
01:10:40,153 --> 01:10:41,988
by our activities to date.
930
01:10:49,787 --> 01:10:51,289
With all these things
931
01:10:51,956 --> 01:10:54,542
there is one
overriding principle.
932
01:10:57,628 --> 01:11:02,800
Nature is our biggest ally
and our greatest inspiration.
933
01:11:05,386 --> 01:11:08,931
We just have to do
what Nature has always done.
934
01:11:10,933 --> 01:11:15,062
It worked out
the secret of life long ago.
935
01:11:21,152 --> 01:11:24,906
In this world,
a species can only thrive...
936
01:11:26,574 --> 01:11:30,077
when everything else
around it thrives too.
937
01:11:36,542 --> 01:11:39,378
We can solve
the problems we now face
938
01:11:39,462 --> 01:11:42,006
by embracing this reality.
939
01:11:45,051 --> 01:11:47,261
If we take care of Nature...
940
01:11:49,138 --> 01:11:51,682
Nature will take care of us.
941
01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:59,774
It's now time for our species
to stop simply growing...
942
01:12:02,151 --> 01:12:05,029
to establish
a life on our planet
943
01:12:05,613 --> 01:12:07,490
in balance with Nature...
944
01:12:10,201 --> 01:12:12,703
to start to thrive.
945
01:12:16,207 --> 01:12:17,583
When you think about it
946
01:12:18,501 --> 01:12:20,044
we're completing a journey.
947
01:12:21,504 --> 01:12:24,507
Ten thousand years ago,
as hunter-gatherers...
948
01:12:25,424 --> 01:12:27,802
we lived a sustainable life
949
01:12:27,885 --> 01:12:29,387
because that was
the only option.
950
01:12:30,721 --> 01:12:32,223
All these years later
951
01:12:33,224 --> 01:12:35,935
it's once again the only option.
952
01:12:36,394 --> 01:12:38,229
We need to rediscover...
953
01:12:39,730 --> 01:12:41,399
how to be sustainable.
954
01:12:41,482 --> 01:12:44,777
To move from being
apart from Nature
955
01:12:45,528 --> 01:12:49,740
to becoming a part
of Nature once again.
956
01:12:50,533 --> 01:12:52,076
FILM PROJECTOR WHIRRS
957
01:12:52,159 --> 01:12:53,160
SINGLE BEEP
958
01:12:55,329 --> 01:12:57,748
Tonight, we've got rather
a different programme for you.
959
01:13:00,877 --> 01:13:03,921
SIR DAVID: If we can change
the way we live on Earth...
960
01:13:05,131 --> 01:13:07,550
an alternative future
comes into view.
961
01:13:11,679 --> 01:13:12,889
In this future...
962
01:13:13,639 --> 01:13:16,642
we discover ways
to benefit from our land
963
01:13:16,726 --> 01:13:19,896
that help, rather than hinder,
wilderness...
964
01:13:21,898 --> 01:13:23,900
ways to fish our seas
965
01:13:23,983 --> 01:13:27,445
that enable them
to come quickly back to life.
966
01:13:27,528 --> 01:13:29,447
WHALES SPOUT AND SPLASH
967
01:13:32,742 --> 01:13:34,368
FOREST ANIMALS CALL
968
01:13:34,452 --> 01:13:38,915
And ways to harvest
our forests sustainably.
969
01:13:42,501 --> 01:13:46,339
We will finally learn
how to work with Nature
970
01:13:46,797 --> 01:13:49,133
rather than against it.
971
01:13:51,802 --> 01:13:52,887
In the end
972
01:13:53,262 --> 01:13:56,390
after a lifetime's exploration
of the living world
973
01:13:56,474 --> 01:13:58,267
I'm certain of one thing.
974
01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:02,355
This is not about
saving our planet...
975
01:14:03,564 --> 01:14:05,816
it's about saving ourselves.
976
01:14:10,905 --> 01:14:13,824
The truth is,
with or without us
977
01:14:14,450 --> 01:14:17,119
the natural world will rebuild.
978
01:14:27,046 --> 01:14:31,217
In the 30 years since
the evacuation of Chernobyl...
979
01:14:32,051 --> 01:14:35,221
...the wild has
reclaimed the space.
980
01:14:35,304 --> 01:14:36,639
BIRDS CHIRP
981
01:14:46,983 --> 01:14:50,861
Today, the forest
has taken over the city.
982
01:15:04,917 --> 01:15:07,086
It's a sanctuary
for wild animals
983
01:15:07,545 --> 01:15:09,422
that are very rare elsewhere.
984
01:15:11,590 --> 01:15:12,842
HORSES SNORT
985
01:15:16,345 --> 01:15:18,472
And powerful evidence
986
01:15:18,973 --> 01:15:21,017
that however grave our mistakes
987
01:15:21,684 --> 01:15:24,562
Nature will, ultimately,
overcome them.
988
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:32,069
The living world will endure.
989
01:15:34,405 --> 01:15:37,908
We humans cannot
presume the same.
990
01:15:40,870 --> 01:15:42,163
We've come this far
991
01:15:42,705 --> 01:15:45,166
because we are
the smartest creatures
992
01:15:45,249 --> 01:15:46,584
that have ever lived.
993
01:15:51,172 --> 01:15:52,757
But to continue
994
01:15:53,132 --> 01:15:55,801
we require
more than intelligence...
995
01:15:57,803 --> 01:16:00,681
we require... wisdom.
996
01:16:14,070 --> 01:16:16,655
There are many differences
between humans
997
01:16:16,739 --> 01:16:18,616
and the rest of the species
on Earth
998
01:16:19,158 --> 01:16:20,910
but one that has been expressed
999
01:16:20,993 --> 01:16:24,080
is that we alone are able
to imagine the future.
1000
01:16:25,790 --> 01:16:29,710
For a long time, I, and perhaps
you, have dreaded that future.
1001
01:16:30,795 --> 01:16:32,254
But it's now becoming apparent
1002
01:16:32,797 --> 01:16:35,132
that it's not
all doom and gloom.
1003
01:16:36,342 --> 01:16:38,636
There's a chance
for us to make amends...
1004
01:16:39,595 --> 01:16:41,639
to complete our journey
of development
1005
01:16:42,056 --> 01:16:43,390
manage our impact
1006
01:16:43,474 --> 01:16:47,895
and once again become a species
in balance with Nature.
1007
01:16:49,021 --> 01:16:51,732
All we need
is the will to do so.
1008
01:16:52,316 --> 01:16:54,860
We now have
the opportunity to create
1009
01:16:54,944 --> 01:16:57,071
the perfect home
for ourselves...
1010
01:16:57,780 --> 01:17:01,951
and restore the rich,
healthy and wonderful world
1011
01:17:02,701 --> 01:17:03,953
that we inherited.
1012
01:17:05,204 --> 01:17:06,622
Just imagine that.