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He spent 70 years watching the world. Now he's telling us how it ends. 🌍🎙️ We investigate David Attenborough's Final Warning. We break down his "Witness Statement" from A Life on Our Planet, tracing the collapse of global biodiversity during his single lifetime—from 66% wilderness in 1937 to just 35% today. We analyze the science of Planetary Boundaries and his 4-step plan to "Rewild the World" and save civilization from itself.


1. The Witness Statement: A timeline of loss. We analyze the data. We track the three numbers that defined his life: World Population (up), Carbon (up), and Wilderness (down). We explain how he witnessed the "shifting baseline" firsthand, finding it exponentially harder to locate animals in the 90s than in the 50s, proving that the "wild world" we see on TV is largely an illusion.


2. The Escalator to Extinction: Leaving the Holocene. We expose the threat. We discuss the concept of Planetary Boundaries (Johan Rockström). We explain that we have exited the "Holocene"—the 10,000-year period of stability that allowed human civilization to exist—and are entering a chaotic new age of the 6th Mass Extinction, driving species to extinction 100 times faster than the natural rate.


3. The Rewilding Plan: It’s not too late. We explore the solution. We break down Attenborough's vision: moving to renewable energy, shifting to a plant-based diet to free up farmland, and stabilizing the population by raising living standards and educating girls. We highlight success stories like Costa Rica (forests) and the Mountain Gorillas (Virunga) as proof that nature can bounce back if we just give it space.


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