So this is Sir David Attenborough's account of the change he has witnessed in the natural world since he was born. 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. There were times when I felt the science became dense, but I imagined the sound of the author’s distinctive voice. Ascultată ca audiobook, tratată în mod pertinent (deh, e vorba de Attenborough), prezintă principalele probleme cu care ne confruntăm, dar și soluții pe termen scurt și lung. But then further into the book it explained all what needs to be done and what is currently being done, and turned my despair into hope.

His documentary career began in the 1950s when he began working for the BBC, a British public service broadcaster. On the whole, however, I found this book (and the accompanying documentary) both moving and inspiring. With a new afterword, Why You Are Here: A speech on the opening of the COP26 climate summitAs a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world – but it was an illusion.This book is what it says it is; Sir David Attenborough's witness statement of our planets last 80-odd-years. He was Controller of BBC2 (1965-68), during which time he introduced colour television to Britain, then Director of Programmes for the BBC (1969-1972). WWF-UK (Worldwide Fund for Nature) Trading Limited, registered in England and Wales with company no. Tenho um pingo de esperança na humidade quando ele cita exemplos de países que estão adotando essas práticas, mas ao ver nosso país, com nossos políticos jogando contra tudo o que David sugere, fico desanimado.

This is a great book I thoroughly enjoyed by a man I have the utmost respect for since I grew up watching his programs and learning a lot about the natural world. At the beginning of every chapter Attenborough quotes three numbers and their development over the years, which is quite disconcerting. 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.He visited places such as the African Serengeti, in which native animals require vast areas of land to maintain grazing patterns. We've not only got ourselves into this climate crisis, but we've also started the sixth extinction event with our behaviour, and it's going to hurt us as well if we don't manage to turn this around. To quote an extraordinary and morally consistent environmental activist "it's time to start panicking" because there is still hope that we can change this. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to live our comfortable lives. The shame of it is, probably only those who are nature lovers will read it, but the people who really need to learn are those that give little consideration to animals and the environment.