David Attenbrough: Let’s save our planet … let’s save our lives!

“Living on this planet is a wonderful vision, and the way we humans live here is leading us to decline.” Thus begins my documentary “David Attenborough: Life on Our Planet”, which has launched its worldwide broadcast on Netflix. Legendary naturalist David Attenborough, a naturalist rich in definitions, has spent most of his life documenting wildlife, and during his nearly 70-year career, he traveled to the frontiers of the planet in search of biodiversity and natural history to pass us by. Today, at ninety-four years old, he did not retire, he still continues to provide us with programs and documentaries. Dedicated to documenting life on Earth as a biodiverse paradise in a complex balance, Attenbrugh believes that much of what he discovered and what he knew no longer exists. Wildlife has been destroyed by human intervention. The rapid changes the planet has undergone as a result of neglected human life have led to an unprecedented environmental crisis. Wildlife is being destroyed, frozen seas are melting, and forests are disappearing, leading to imminent extinction. The documentary is a testimony in which Attenbrough reviews his career and contemplates the future of humanity. More than that, it urges us to act urgently to address the environmental and climate crisis we face. For him, restoring this paradise is the most urgent duty to protect our future. The British scientist has not yet given up, he has an optimistic outlook on the future. The solution is there, it only depends on us being allies of Mother Earth, if we take care of nature, she will take care of us. In the end, “it’s not about saving our planet, it’s about saving ourselves.”

The documentary begins by shedding light on aspects of David Attenborough’s life. We see the expeditions that he made throughout his life. We enter the second chapter of the film, as it introduces us to the importance of nature, biodiversity and marine ecosystems. Oceans, forests, deserts, the Arctic, rain, water, and atmospheric phenomena are the perfect unified set on this planet. David Attenbrough sees it clearly, and only says that by putting all these things together again, the planet can recover and we are with him. The last part of the documentary reveals the difficulties we will face if we continue with our unsustainable activity on the planet.

The documentary ends with the simple fact that nature will survive with us or without us.

The message is direct and concise. The environmental catastrophe we are experiencing can be fixed, but it requires changes and sacrifices that we must be willing to make. The documentary ends with a simple and shocking fact; Nature will survive with us or without us. Attenebrow takes the example of the human-caused accident at a Chernobyl nuclear power plant. After 30 years, nature makes its way between buildings, and destruction, of course, is repair and restoration. However, people still cannot live there continuously.
The documentary is more than wonderful, as if it were an abbreviation of Attenborough’s lifetime, with the help of scenes previously filmed in his shows such as “Planet Earth 1 and 2”, “Our Planet” (shown on Netflix) and “The Blue Planet”. At a crucial time for humanity, when the Corona pandemic has put the modern world and civilization under a microscope and revealed the fragility of humans, Attenebrow proposes to embrace nature and make up for lost time before it’s too late.

* A life on our planet on Netflix

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