LAKE NATRON HELICOPTER CRASH SERIES

Series producer Huw Cordey says: “Even the most hostile of volcanic landscapes can support life, like Lake Natron in Tanzania, which is the most corrosive body of water. Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and Marcus Rashford top ethics poll.Sir David Attenborough wins lifetime achievement award.The first episode deals with volcanoes, and looks at the wildlife which manage to thrive amid the toxic effects of the eruptions. You need to empower them with the solutions and the good news is nature is unbelievably resilient and mankind already has the technology to solve these problems. “It's not longer good enough just to give people the bad news stories. That the ocean currents are no longer flowing as they did, that the hurricanes hitting the east coast of America are more frequent and more powerful – but also they talk about the solutions. “They talk about the home truths, the facts, that we're producing one hundred times more carbon dioxide than all the volcanoes on the planet. Including the past president.”įothergill says the upcoming series uses scientists and experts to explain what needs to be done. And you have to say, there is a very strong element in the United States that does not believe it. He sees no reason why anybody should take any action. 'Rubbish,' he said (well, he actually said something else) but he didn't believe it. “I said to the pilot, look at all these huge, great hotels, if we go on like this they'll all be under water.

Sir David Attenborough in the studio recording (Image: Huw Cordey/Silverback Films 2020)īut he knows that he's got his work cut out – speaking to the pilot of a helicopter who was flying him over Miami during filming made him realise how big the task was. What do we have to do to persuade people that that's the case?” And we have still got a chance to stop it happening. That's not imagination, it's not HG Wells, it's not science fiction. And if the ice melts, the seas are going to rise and flood those cities. 'A high proportion of the big cities in the world are built around the coast, because of their ports. If we warm the earth to such a degree that the Arctic melts – every city in the world will be under water,” he stresses. With the international conference on global warming being held in Glasgow next year, Sir David says this is a very timely moment to press home the message that climate change is real. Like the presenter, he feels America getting a new, greener President is a crucial development. So if humanity can unite to solve Covid surely we can to solve climate change?” “To be honest, Covid is a relatively small problem compared with the planetary crisis that's facing us. “We've seen how, in the search for the vaccine, humanity has united and put so much energy into solving that problem,” Fothergill explained. Sir David, and executive producer Alastair Fothergill, said that the Covid pandemic has given them hope that climate change is a problem that can be solved. The fifth and final episode takes a sharp change of tone as it examines the dramatic impact of humans on the planet – and what needs to be done to correct the damage. His thoughts on climate change and the action that needed will become even clearer when viewers tune in to BBC1's new landmark series A Perfect Planet from next month reports the Mirror.Ĭombining earth science and natural history in a way that hasn't been done before, it explores how the forces of nature, weather, ocean currents, solar energy and volcanoes drive, shape and support the planet's great diversity of life. I've never done it before, even for our own elections.

'I can't remember getting out of my seat and cheering all by myself until that moment. That someone should be coming into power who recognises the importance of the ecological problems that face us – who's first statement after it became clear he was going to become the President Elect was to reinstate America's backing of the Paris agreement. He said: “America is the most powerful country in the world, economically, and has huge influence on what happens. He may be 94-years-old but hearing Joe Biden say he would sign America back up to the international agreement to limit global warming left him feeling hugely heartened. Sir David Attenborough admitted he jumped for joy in delight after climate change denier Donald Trump lost the US election.

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