A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

I liked the book except the print is pretty small so not a good gift for someone who's not got great eye sight.

I have read and watch the entirety on Netflix. David Attenborough is a genius in providing us the effect of climate change.

It is rare for me to read, let alone purchase, a non-fiction book. However, anything David Attenborough related and I am immediately there!I received the book yesterday and have been so engrossed by the content that I have already finished it.To me the book felt like the right length; it went through what the problems are in clear language, and what the solutions are. The images and pictures were also nice little breathers as you are reading the book.The evidence and predictions of what could happen if nothing changes is horrifying, but the solutions do give hope for the future, if they are implemented.I hope that politicians everywhere are given a copy of this book and read it.David Attenborough is quite rightly a hero to many people, myself included. It is amazing that he is 94 years old and still fighting hard to save the natural world, with this book and the related film his latest brilliant efforts.He is an inspiration to us all and this book should be read by anyone that is a human and lives on planet earth!

I think this is the only book I've finished in 15 years.The book covers various aspects of how things used to be and have changed over the years. It covers sections on how we've extracted more and more from our surroundings over the decades to the current unsustainable levels.I found the potential future options interesting to read because it outlines how the rest of our (and our kids) lives will be affected over the next 10-80 years or so.It seems to also highlight how much our governments, banks and big corporations roles play into the state of our planet, how much we need them to change so that our individual choices can actually make a significant difference.

David Attenborough is a well known and loved British personally and his love and passion for nature and our planet is unbelievable.This book is split into three parts covering different aspects of how we have changed the very fabric of our planet earth.Part one of the book covers David Attenborough's time of how he started making programs of all natural world and how the effects we have had on the planet and animals were already being seen and continues up until present day.Part two tells us of things to come if we don't change or do so at a slow pace and how these things are already beginning right now.Part three is what we all need to do to hopefully slow the pace and eventually change the course of fate that we and are planet are on. Helping to restore nature to its natural balance and live within our means in a more sustainable and sensible way.This book is quite hard hitting and upsetting, but David Attenborough brings his love and passion of nature out to us to encourage us to make a difference and save the planet not just for ourselves but for future generations.

Worth the read - makes you think. Time to wake up and wise up.

"WE HAVE COME AS FAR AS WE HAVE BECAUSE WE ARE THE CLEVEREST CREATURES TO HAVE EVER LIVED ON EARTH. BUT IF WE ARE TO CONTINUE TO EXIST, WE WILL REQUIRE MORE THAN INTELLIGENCE. WE WILL REQUIRE WISDOM"Read this with a heavy heart and melancholy filled my soul. It hurt this book, I don't have much hope cause apart from those very close to me, most people around me couldn't give a flying F about what's happening with the subject of our planet and sustainability.I aren't perfect, but I try. I read labells more and more. I won't buy certain products anymore if I know them to be unsustainable, have alternatives and I look out for palm oil. I've give up a lot of plastic and I will not buy anything in plastic unless necessary. I go for jars and glass more. I have shampoo bars, bath bombs... I try to reduce as much waste as possible. I've given up meat throughout the week and only eat it 1/2 times a week for one of my meals. But you look around and see people so oblivious and it's not from not understanding... They understand... They just don't want the change, too inconvenient, taking their choices away.Well guess what... Be no choice left when there is no planet and it has had enough and wiped us out cause we're constantly shafting it for our own ease and economical gain.Comes down to laziness and money...Bravo Humans 👏🏻