A Life on our Planet

In a new Netflix documentary, A Life On Our Planet, Sir David Attenborough says we must change our diet. “The planet can’t support billions of meat-eaters. If we had a mostly plant-based diet we could increase the yield of the land”.

Experts are saying that using large tracks of land to grow feed solely for livestock is wasteful because animals are inefficient converters of calories, and growing human-edible crops on the land would provide more total food.

“Half of fertile land on Earth is now farmland, 70 per cent of birds are domestic, majority chickens. We are one third of animals on Earth. This is now our planet run by – and for – humans. There’s little left for the world. We have completely destroyed it.” says Attenborough. He adds: “Our planet is headed for disaster. We need to learn how to work with nature rather than against it.

Sir David warns: “Scientists predict by 2030 the rainforest turns into a dry savannah, altering the global water cycle. The Artic becomes ice-free, global warming increases, frozen soils release methane and accelerate climate change dramatically. He urges the world to restore biodiversity and rewild the world, which, he says, would be “easier than you think”.

Click the button below for the link to the trailer on Netflix.