In groups where people deny climate change is real, I kept coming across people saying they used to like Attenborough when they were kids, but now he had become all political with his support with the climate change nonsense so they couldn't stand him. Thank you to Netgalley, Random House and Sir David Attenborough for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. I’m glad to have one of his books and very glad he’s sharing more of his expertise and knowledge on how better to take care of this beautiful planet 🌎 of ours!

So if there were ever a possibility of escaping the human condition and living imaginatively in another creature’s world, it must be with the gorilla. Attenborough emphasizes that there’s no room for continued growth - population, GDP, consumption — on a closed-system planet worth limited resources. The causes are anthropogenic climate change and biodiversity loss pushing the planet towards a sixth mass extinction event over a period of centuries rather than the hundreds of millennia that built up to previous mass extinctions. 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. However, as an introduction to some of the current environmental challenges, I think this offers a pretty good overview.The benign environment of the Holocene and the marvellous biodiversity is more important to us than ever. Wherever women have the vote, wherever girls stay in school for longer, wherever women are in charge of their own lives and not dictated to by men, wherever they have access to good healthcare and contraception, wherever they are free to take any job and their aspirations for life are raised, the birth rate falls. And he is very good at explaining his point so convisely and accessibly, and with such hope that even the cynics among us start wondering that maybe, just maybe, we have a chance after all.

In the third part of the book he shows what is already done in parts of the world and what has to be done globally to put things right. I have to admit that I haven't seen many of the documentarys he has narrated as me and tv have it complicated. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future is a 2020 book by documentarian David Attenborough and director-producer Jonnie Hughes.In one of his most recent TV programmes, I was watching a crowd of young flamingo's escape the clutches of a beady-eyed predator. We learn of his early fascination with fossils and thus learn some details about ammonites, their significance for natural history. 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. The current geological epoch of Holocene's stability is inevitable for the development and sustenance of civilizations.

He's got this infectious fascination for life on this planet that I can never help being swept along with. However, there is no denying that our mere presence on the planet is having often devastating effects. All these stories are always connected to the topic of the book and the reader learns about the importance of biodiversity and how with the Holocene the living world settled into a gentle, reliable annual rhythm. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It was not laws invented by human beings that interested me, but the principles that governed the lives of animals and plants; not the history of kings and queens, or even the different languages that had been developed by different human societies, but the truths that had governed the world around me long before humanity had appeared in it.It has its difficult parts, but I think it is very well worth the read, even a reread, which I think I'm going to do later this year. of the mass of all the mammals on Earth is made up of our own bodies and those of the animals that we raise to eat. It also serves to show us how important it is that we indeed do something because the eco system is a fragile thing and we need food and water from it so it is in our own best interest to get a move on. A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation.

Perhaps not surprisingly they revolve to a certain degree around regenerating nature, or re-wilding it, and I think he's got a point. A Life on Our Planet is one of the best books I’ve read this year and one of the best on sustainability. He described population trends and stages in development and what this meant in terms of food requirements.It's probably fairly old news, but I'd chew off a limb if it meant me sipping coffee and nibbling biscuits with Sir Attenborough.