This glorious visual celebration of the natural world combines extraordinary photography from the series with stunning illustrations from acclaimed artist, Richard Jones. Lose yourself in icy landscapes, dense jungles and endless oceans. Learn how our fascinating habitats, and the plants and creatures living there, interconnect to create the one place we all call home – Our Planet. However, Attenborough describes actions which could prevent these effects and combat climate change and biodiversity loss. He proposes that bringing countries out of poverty, providing universal healthcare and improving girls' education would make the growing human population stabilise sooner and at a lower level. Renewable energy such as solar, wind, water and geothermal could sustainably power all human energy usage. Protecting a third of coastal areas from fishing could allow fish populations to thrive and the remaining area would be sufficient for human consumption. Humans changing their diet to eliminate or reduce meat in favour of plant-based foods could allow land to be used far more efficiently. Attenborough cites government intervention in Costa Rica causing deforestation to reverse, Palau's fishing regulations and improved use of land in the Netherlands as good examples. Finnish: Yksi elämä, yksi planeetta: Näkemys ihmeellisen maailmamme tulevaisuudesta. Translated by Ilkka Rekiaro. Helsinki: WSOY. 2020. ISBN 9789510456583. Nature programmes used to celebrate how enormous and wondrous our world is. Then the climate crisis forced them to adapt, so they became programmes about how wondrous our world was, and still could be, if we could only stop damaging it. Now, wildlife series are evolving again, and Life on Our Planet is part of a new breed that looks at humanity killing itself, and says: hey, nature has been through worse than this before. Here, the story that will happily carry on without us is told to us as an awesome, cinematic epic.

In 2020 he was 93, and things changed quite a bit: population 7.8 billion, atmospheric carbon 415 ppm, and remaining wilderness 35%.This book does nothing to detract from that feeling. This book is released when Attenborough is 93 years old, and it is still up to the standards one expects from him. It's partly David Attenborough's work biography, which for someone that has watched as much of his work as I have is fascinating. He's been doing this for so long that he probably could have written a whole book on that subject alone, and it would have been a great read, but it is also his witness statement on what is happening with our planet, and he is in a good position to give evidence on that as he has seen so many thing through his work. He has seen how the planet has been changing due to climate changes. Hungarian: Egy élet a bolygónkon: A szemtanú vallomása - és látomás a Föld jövőjéről. Translated by Benjamin Makovecz. Budapest: Park Könyvkiadó. 2020. ISBN 9789633557006. In 1937 he was 11, and at that time the world population was 2.3 billion, atmospheric carbon 280 ppm, and remaining wilderness 66%. David Attenborough has always been a voice that I absolutely love and respect and when he speaks, I give all my attention to him because he is someone who knows what he is talking about. A Life on Our Planet is his witness statement, as can be discerned from the book's subtitle. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is about the changes Attenborough has witnessed while living through the years. He is 94 at the moment, so, he has seen quite a lot. He explains the problems we have created, both for ourselves and for our home (are they even separate?!) and all I was wondering was how could he have any hope left in himself after seeing everything he did! But when it comes to love, when have we ever been logical? How desperately we cling on to any hope we can find! The second part of the book tells us about his hopes for the future and what we, as a community of homo sapiens (do we really deserve to be called that?), could do to avert the disaster we have wrought upon ourselves and thus, on our home.

Irrespective of where a person is on that spectrum, there is no denying the expertise, passion and thoroughness of this man, this writer, this environmentalist, this scientist is all laid out in this text. This educators’ guide (and accompanying presentations) includes five activities that provide a range of classroom and outdoor learning opportunities to help young people build their knowledge and understanding of sustainability issues, explore their own values and attitudes and develop key skills so that they feel empowered to take action in shaping a brighter future for our planet. Lithuanian: Gyvenimas mūsų planetoje. Mano liudijimas ir ateities vizija. Translated by Jurgita Jėrinaitė. Vilnius: Helios. 2021. ISBN 9789949691951. The benign environment of the Holocene and the marvellous biodiversity is more important to us than ever.” Greek: Η ζωή στον πλανήτη μας: Η μαρτυρία μου και ένα όραμα για το μέλλον, romanized: I zoí ston planíti mas: I martyría mou kai éna órama gia to méllon. Translated by Myrto Kalofolias. Athens: Patakis. 2021. ISBN 9789601693545.

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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. We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return.” 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. The book offers a positive, collective approach to solving the problems. ‘It is possible,’ he writes. Simple versus overreaching words of encouragement. 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.