FREE DAVID ATTENBOROUGH NEW LIFE STORIES PDF Sir David Attenborough | 3 pages | 13 Sep 2011 | BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House | 9781408468401 | English | London, United Kingdom BBC Radio 4 Extra - David Attenborough's Life Stories, Series 1 As an independent student newspaper and the paper of record for the city of Berkeley, the Daily Cal has been communicating important updates during this pandemic. Your support is essential to maintaining this coverage. In his faltering, he finds an emotional footing for scientific communication. Having dedicated his career to all the life around him, it is only fitting that viewers finally get a glimpse into his life. Opening with Attenborough wandering the regretful structures of Chernobyl, the first scene lacks anything new to say about the disaster. It works. Suddenly, year-old Attenborough takes his place in the present and, with all the same boyish energy, he proudly displays his latest find from his old digging ground, kicking off a journey through his life covering the natural world. The anxious emotion in these time shifts provides a solid narrative foundation for climate change —— one rooted David Attenborough New Life Stories the celebration of life rather than the terrifying numbers. The gut-wrenching climax of his witness statement sees his face superimposed over archival footage of his younger self, concluding that the wild world he saw was an illusion. That invisible change perfectly encapsulates what the truly great moments of the film have: heart. Attenborough purposely steers clear of power structures, politics and the forces of human idea evolution he relies on earlier that break his hopeful vision. While this choice depoliticizes the issue, the David Attenborough New Life Stories between his simple solutions and the inability of people to collectively act, hidden in his lingering pauses, is only evident to those already fighting environmental power structures. For those people, the sadness of reality only empowers the film further. Returning to Chernobyl, the film reveals that in the relatively short time since people fled, the wild has reclaimed its territory. The empty shells of human error now play host to a bounty of life, redeeming the hopeful tone of the solutions with evidence that humanity is either going with nature, or nature David Attenborough New Life Stories go on after humanity disappears. Humans have broken free of restrictions with David Attenborough New Life Stories destructive ability to evolve in ideas far faster than nature can evolve physically to answer them. We're an independent, student-run newsroom. Grade: 4. David Attenborough chronicles life through his eyes in documentary For nearly 70 years Sir David Attenborough has been exploring the planet, taking hundreds of millions of television viewers on eye-opening journeys through the natural world. Jungles and island archipelagos, deserts and deep under the sea, no place has been too remote, no animal too elusive, for Sir David and his talented team of filmmakers to document. The man known as a national treasure in his native Britain, is 94 years old now, but age and the pandemic haven't slowed him down, he's coming out with a new book and a remarkable and stunning new film, "A Life On Our Planet," which premieres on Netflix next week. They are, David Attenborough New Life Stories he calls, a witness statement, a firsthand account of what he has seen happen to the planet and a dire warning of what he believes awaits us if we don't act quickly to save it. Attenborough: The way we humans live on Earth, is sending it into a decline. Human beings have David Attenborough New Life Stories the world. We're replacing the wild with the tame Our planet is headed for disaster. Anderson Cooper: You call the film "a witness statement. Sir David Attenborough: Yeah, well, a crime has been committed. And-- and it so happens that, I'm of such an age, that I was able to see it beginning. But if you've got any sense of responsibility, you can't do that. Sir David spoke to us via Zoom near his home in London where he's been living in isolation due to the pandemic. Anderson Cooper: I imagine you living in a house full of things that you have collected from travels around the world, a sort of cabinet of curiosities. Sir David Attenborough: Well, that is David Attenborough New Life Stories in the sense. And-- and certainly I've got a cellar full of rock. And sometimes you pick it up and you say, "Good lord, what on earth is this," or indeed, "Why on earth would I have bothered to pick this up? He studied geology and zoology in college, and was working as a producer at the BBC inwhen he convinced his bosses to let him loose and start traveling the world. He was just 28 David Attenborough New Life Stories old. David Attenborough became a household name in with his ground-breaking BBC series, "Life On Earth," which was seen by an estimated million people worldwide. Sir David Attenborough: I know it sounds like a publicist slogan, but it is the greatest story ever told. It's the story of how life developed on this planet and led to you and me sitting here, talking across an ocean. Attenborough in "Life on Earth: Life in the Trees" : It's really very unfair that man should have chosen the gorilla to symbolize all that is aggressive and violent, when that's the one thing that the gorilla is not and that we are. Sir David Attenborough: They ended up, two of them, sitting on me. Was I alarmed? Was I frightened? Was I-- concerned that the mother of those two baby chimps was going to turn on me? Not at all. Not for a microsecond. It was the biggest compliment I can David Attenborough New Life Stories receiving. There is barely a corner of the earth he hasn't been to, or a species he hasn't shown us in a new way. He's done more than just bring the natural world into our homes, he's helped us make sense of it, given it a story, full of characters and complexity, not to mention excitement. So if the hatchling keeps its nerve it may just avoid detecti on. Anderson Cooper: I saw that on a plane. And I started talking David Attenborough New Life Stories the person next to me in my seat saying, "You have to watch this, David Attenborough New Life Stories is extraordinary. Sir David Attenborough: A bit of a d-- a piece of cake, how's that? Because the animals are so fantastic. Sir David has always been an animal advocate. In the early 's he was a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, but in his films he rarely focused on the destruction of their habitat or climate change. Anderson Cooper: You were skeptical of-- of climate change And David Attenborough New Life Stories think that's-- that's interesting, because I think it makes your warnings now all the more powerful. Sir David Attenborough: Yeah, yeah, certainly so. And if you're going to make a statement about the world, you better make sure that it isn't just your own personal reaction. And the only way you can do it, do that, is to see the-- the work of scientists around the world who are taking observation as to what's happening. As to what's happening to temperature, what's happening to humidity, what's happening to radioactivity, and what's happening ecologically? Anderson Cooper: You've said that-- that "climate change is the greatest threat facing the planet for thousands of years. Sir David Attenborough: Yes. Even the biggest and most awful things that humanity has done, civili-- so-called civilizations have done, pale to significance when you think of what could be around the corner, unless we pull ourselves together. Sir David Attenborough: Deserts in Africa have been spreading. There could be whole areas of the world, where people can no longer safely live. Sir David Attenborough: The hottest temperatures yet recorded in Death Valley and yet we are such optimists that we say-- we go to bed at night and say, "Ah, well, that was exceptional. Gosh, that was interesting, wasn't David Attenborough New Life Stories That was the highest temperature. Good lord. Well, that's the end of that. Wait another few months. Wait another year. See again. Sir David Attenborough: A coral reef is one of the most dramatic and beautiful and complex manifestations of life you can find anywhere. Sir David Attenborough: We went on this reef, which I David Attenborough New Life Stories. And it was like a cemetery. Because all the corals-- had died. They died because of a rise in temperature and acidity. And technology--". Anderson Cooper: And technology will evolve to come up with some sort of a solution that we can't even imagine? Sir David Attenborough: Ultimately we depend upon the natural world for every mouthful of food that we David Attenborough New Life Stories and indeed every lung full of air that we breathe. I mean, if it wasn't for the natural world the atmosphere would be depleted from oxygen tomorrow. Sir David Attenborough: If there were no trees around, we would suffocate. I David Attenborough New Life Stories and actually, in the course of this particular pandemic that we're going through, I think people are discovering that they need the natural world for their very sanity. People who have never listened to a bird song, are suddenly thrilled, excited, supported, inspired by the natural world.