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Our Planet Earth
Editor’s Note: Our website https://ourplanetearth.eco encourages all children of God to act with “Care for Our Common Home.” It’s also a resource on https://laudatosiactionplatform.org/ and https://ourcommonhome.org/.
Introduction
Sir David Attenborough is a well-known English broadcaster, writer, and naturalist best known for writing and presenting landmark nature documentaries. He is 100 years old and said, “We are perilously close to climate change tipping points that, once passed, will send global temperatures spiraling catastrophically higher. If we continue on our current path, we will face the collapse of everything that gives us our security, food production, access to fresh water, habitable ambient temperature, and ocean food chains. And if the natural world can no longer support the most basic needs, then much of the rest of civilization will quickly break down. Please make no mistake －climate change is the biggest threat to security that modern humans have ever faced.”
Sir David has witnessed for more than 70 years what has gone wrong in nature. His thoughts are to live out his core lifetime mission: replace human apathy and exploitation with deep wonder, ecological stewardship, and urgent collective action. Listen to him about our earthly mistakes. His vision for healing the planet include:
Reconnect Humanity with Nature
Attenborough believes that "no one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced." By showing animals as important fellow beings rather than mere resources, he replaces human detachment with personal care and responsibility for such animals.
He highlights and brings to light crises in the world, e.g., deep-sea bottom trawling, plastic accumulation in ocean currents, forest destruction in especially the tropical rain forests, and degradation of farmland topsoil. His brings these issues into people’s living rooms, and makes inaction impossible to justify.
Protecting Ecosystems
Attenborough champions aggressive land and marine protection－specifically protecting 30% of global land and oceans by 2030, and up to 50% by 2050 －to allow degraded natural systems to rebound and work for all of us in providing our basic needs throughout the world.
In addition, Attenborough advocates for actively restoring lost and damaged habitats, such as reintroducing native species, reviving marine life, and scaling up carbon-absorbing forests for the assimilation of carbon from the atmosphere which are so important to our survival.
He also emphasizes that true conservation succeeds when it works hand-in-hand with local communities and indigenous natives who have lived in balance with nature since their existence.
Move Away from Fossil Fuels and Address Pollution in Ecosystems
Through platforms like the UN Climate Change Summits in Conferences of the Party (COP) 2026, he’s urged global leaders to shift away from fossil fuels, scale up clean energy, and treat climate recovery as a shared global priority. In addition, he advocates for cleaning up polluted water, air, and land throughout the planet.
Following man’s overwhelming positive review and fascination from the TV program Blue Planet II as found at this Link, Attenborough pushes industries and governments to do away with plastic-heavy supply chains and embrace circular, biodegradable economies.
Sustainable Resource Balance
Attenborough frequently highlights stabilizing human pressure on the planet by relying on humane, positive solutions, e.g., elevating the status of women, expanding global education, and improving healthcare. He also believes in sustainable fishing in our oceans and seas, calling it the greatest wildlife reserve. If done correctly, fishing can provide healthier marine habitats, more fish, and more fish for consumption.
What Can You Do?
The first thing you can do is to vote for a leader that will take you, your family, and your survival seriously in a world that is literally treating our planet as a waste depository. Pollutants can be found everywhere and they must be removed from our land, water and air. If you want to be an eco-friendly citizen of this world, we need to be active stewards that love and care for God’s creations. And, we can do all these things without being too inconvenienced, and even save some money by our planning efforts.
For those experiencing climate change anxiety, an excellent article in Psychology Today (Jan/Feb 2025), which gives ways to manage it. One way is: “It can be helpful to spend time in nature and reconnect with the Earth.”
“The Earthshot Prize 2023” Video by Sir David Attenborough
Quote: “We live our comfortable lives in the shadow of a disaster of our own making. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to live our comfortable lives.”― David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
Tom Cervone, Deacon and PhD, is the founder, and Michael Cervone, B.S., is the programmer and designer of the “Our Planet Earth” website. We also thank others for their earlier help in developing this website. Comments may be directed to ourplanetearth@gmail.com Thank you.