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David Attenborough har sett mer av världens natur än någon annan. I över sjuttio år har han i sina naturfilmer visat oss vår planet i all sin storslagenhet. David Attenborough är idag 93 år gammal. Han har besökt jordens alla kontinenter, har utforskat dess vildmarker och dokumenterat den levande världen i all dess rikedom. Nu, för första gången, ser han tillbaka på de avgörande ögonblicken i sitt liv som naturskildrare, liksom på den förödande utvecklingen han har bevittnat under sitt liv. Attenborough tar upp några av de största utmaningarna som vår planet står inför och ger oss insikt om den enorma förlust av natur som skett under en enda livstid. Men han har också ett starkt budskap om hopp för framtida generationer och presenterar lösningarna för att rädda vår planet från katastrof. Den här boken är hans vittnesmål och vision för framtiden. Jag heter David Attenborough och jag är 93. Jag har levt ett verkligt extraordinärt liv. Inte förrän nu har jag riktigt uppskattat hur extraordinärt. Den levande världen är ett unikt och spektakulärt underverk. Trots det lever vi människor på jorden på ett sätt som leder till dess förfall. Människan har överskridit världen. Den här boken är mitt vittnesmål och min vision för framtiden. Den är berättelsen om hur vi kom att begå detta vårt största misstag och hur vi, om vi agerar nu, fortfarande kan rätta till det. Vi måste lära oss hur vi arbetar med naturen snarare än mot den - och jag ska berätta hur.
Publication Year: 2020
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A really good book, I get why it was one of the winners of Goodreads choice awards.
I liked most of it, but when it moved away from the animal life and nature and more into how humans need to use solar power and recycle and not eat as much meat I kind of lost my interest for a little bit. Not because I think he is wrong, but it was very simplified. I mean, yes, solar power is a good thing, but we also need to talk about how the panels are made, because there is a lot of garbage created from them. Maybe it's not so much in what sources we use, but that we overall, both companies and private, need to cut down on a bunch of stuff. Because the way we are living is not sustainable. And he talked about that when he brought up meat and fish, how we are draining the oceans, and how we eat so much more meat now than we used to. He touched upon some very interesting points that I wished he would have gone deeper into. He mentioned how just a small percentage use a very large amount of the earth. The richest in the world treat our planet very poorly, flying private planes, buying stuff all of the time, etc. He also talked about how we might think our country is doing well, but many times when we think how our country that is rich is able to have our forests grow back and have beautiful landscapes, we don't talk about how we often outsource to poorer countries that instead are the ones destroying their countries so that we can live in a lie. These two topics would have been better to go even deeper into, instead of the beautiful lie that if we only switch to solar panels and eat less meat everything will be better. It's so much more complicated than that.
One part he did talk about a lot that I thought was so interesting was how we are treating the oceans and the fish, and there was a lot fo good examples of how smaller countries had gotten back a lot of fish because they did not use every part of the ocean but instead let some parts be free zones that the fish could feel safe in and grow bigger in.
It is a good book. I would recommend that most people read it because even if it brought up terrible stuff about how we are treating our planet, it also had such a beautiful beginning with how he came to love the planet and how he got to travel and experience it.
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