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A Life on Our Planet

October 10, 2020 by Celia @ Fig Jam and Lime Cordial

Friends, if you haven’t already watched this, please, please make a point of doing so.

It’s available on Netflix but is also screening at some cinemas. It’s Sir David’s witness statement about the changes he’s seen during the course of his lifetime. When he was a young boy in 1937, the human population of the world was just 2.3 billion; today it stands at 7.8 billion.

Today, we and the animals we raise to feed us account by weight for a truly staggering 96% of all the mammals in the world. That means everything else, from blue whales to mice (as Sir David puts it) accounts for just 4%. Domestic birds make up 70% of the total birds in the world, and most of those are chickens raised for meat and eggs. 50% of the fertile land on the planet is farmland. We have truly and completely overrun the planet and we risk self-extermination within a century if nothing is done about it.

It is a show which will terrify you, make you cry, and give you hope. Please, please watch it. ♥

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  1. on October 10, 2020 at 8:25 am Susan

    thank you, I will look for it.


  2. on October 10, 2020 at 10:43 am lifeofanearthmuffin

    I’ve heard so many great things about this – I’ll definitely have to check it out if I have the time this weekend :)
    Jenna ♥
    Stay in touch? Life of an Earth Muffin


  3. on October 10, 2020 at 12:04 pm Eha

    In my view absolutely compulsory viewing and reviewing ! And thanks to Sir David – so many people seem ‘thrilled to ‘retire’ at 65 – he and Her Majesty the Queen are both still ‘at it’ at 94 !


  4. on October 11, 2020 at 2:29 am Helen

    Funnily enough, I’ve just asked my daughter to set Netflix up on my laptop and guess which programme came up first?


  5. on May 2, 2021 at 6:42 am Karen White

    I’ve watched it a couple of times now. Compelling viewing.



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