We are not saving the planet, but saving ourselves.

Percy 2022-09-05 21:08:48

Father is ninety-five this year, right? Even at an advanced age, I still love nature, and I still put my heart and soul into the exploration of nature, and practice personally to live and learn, which is admirable.

It may be because of his deep love for nature that the old man is more worried about the drastic changes in the environment and has a more sense of crisis. What he saw with his 95-year experience relative to the ancient earth is that it took only two hundred years for mankind to change the achievement of the earth in two million years-global warming. This is just one of the problems facing the planet, including but not limited to species extinction, rainforest decline, marine pollution, and overfishing. When the old man talked about these issues, he choked for a while, and it looked really uncomfortable.

The documentary starts at Chernobyl and ends at Chernobyl. On the one hand, it symbolizes that the disasters facing human development are caused step by step by mankind, which is an accusation; on the other hand, it also symbolizes that nature has its own laws of development. Human beings do not intervene, which is the best protection of nature, and it is a prospect. . The whole film is roughly divided into two parts.

In the end, the old man also gave the best form and mode of human development. Although it seems to many people to be utopian and not in line with the reality of development, I think that what we need is this utopian. Only when more and more utopians invest in the protection of nature or other aspects of human society can civilization develop, right?

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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet quotes

  • David Attenborough: This is not about saving our planet, it's about saving ourselves. The truth is, with our without us, the natural world will rebuild.

  • David Attenborough: The living world will endure. We humans cannot presume the same. We've come this far because we are the smartest creatures that have ever lived. But to continue, we require more than intelligence. We require wisdom.