“Now this great festival has gone plastic-free, that is more than a million bottles of water have not been drunk by you in plastic. Thank you! Thank you”
Sir David Attenborough at a surprise appearance on the final day of Glastonbury festival!
Stunning four-minute prequel for forthcoming series sound-tracked by Sia and Hans Zimmer collaboration premieres simultaneously to 100,000 festival goers on all Worthy Farm site screens and globally in almost 50 countries and on social and digital platforms
To celebrate Glastonbury going single-use plastic free for the first time in its 49-year history, inspired by the continued Blue Planet II effect, BBC Studios joined forces with festival organizers to celebrate the amazing work of its iconic Natural History Unit and globally launch its next blockbuster Seven Worlds, One Planet, which is set to premiere later this year on BBC One.
And in a surprise appearance in front of his biggest ever live audience, the show’s narrator, Sir David Attenborough, took to the legendary Pyramid stage to introduce the world premiere of the new series’ curtain-raising prequel. Sir David also revealed that the extended trailer features a tantalizing collaboration between enigmatic Australian performer/songwriter Sia and legendary composer Hans Zimmer, who join forces on the original song Out There, that accompanies the prequel. BBC
Unlike its predecessors (Earth planet II, Blue Planet II and Our Planet) the soundtrack of Seven Worlds One Planet is fierce and heart-touching. As time advances, the narrative of these documentaries evolves often reflecting the current state of the world.
Sia sings in her enigmatic voice:
“ This walk feels longer in the dark tonight
No hand to hold, no hand in sight
I pour my heart out to the blackest sky
Oh, spirit, can you hear my soul's cry?
Can you hear my call? Can I have a sign?
'Cause I am losing hope Yeah, on my darkest night”
It almost feels like a monologue from nature calling out for help in this dire state of humanity. Music adds soul to the film with the right perspective. And when such talented artists come together to produce a beautiful soundtrack, the impact they leave is tremendous.
Sir David Attenborough has told Prince William that people have never been more "out of touch" with the natural world than they are today.
In an interview with the prince at the World Economic Forum, the naturalist warned: "We can wreck it with ease, we can wreck it without even noticing."
Sir David, 92, said: "When I started 60 years ago in the mid-50s, to be truthful, I don't think there was anybody who thought that there was a danger that we might annihilate part of the natural world."
In his early career, he said, simply showing people a new animal on television would astound them.Even then, he added: "Television in Britain in the 50s was only seen by a few million people in southern England."
His new series, Our Planet, due to air on Netflix, could reach 150 million people immediately, he said, "and go on being seen - by word of mouth".Despite this, he said, with more people than ever living in towns, "the paradox (is) that there has never been a time when more people are out of touch with the natural world than there's now".
He warned: "It's not just a question of beauty or interest or wonder, it's the essential ingredient, essential part of human life is a healthy planet.”
In his interview with the Duke of Cambridge, Sir David said it was "difficult to overstate" the climate change crisis.
"We are now so numerous, so powerful, so all pervasive, the mechanisms we have for destruction are so wholesale and so frightening that we can exterminate whole ecosystems without even noticing it.
We have now to be really aware of the dangers that we are doing. And we already know that of course the plastics problem in the seas is wreaking appalling damage on marine life - the extent of which we don't yet fully know."
Last year, Sir David said he was "astonished" by the response to Blue Planet II, which raised the issue of single-use plastics and the damage they were doing to the world's oceans.
Despite all the efforts, scientists says the nature documentaries is misleading audiences!
Nature documentaries could be “actively misleading audiences” by showing nature as something pristine that is not being damaged by humans, researchers warn.
Scientists looked at the scripts from the four most recent David Attenborough-narrated BBC and Netflix nature series and said they did not show the extent to which nature is being threatened by human activity.
“Nature is still mostly shown as pristine, and the presence or impacts of people on the natural world very seldom appear,” researchers wrote in the paper published in People and Nature.
Scientists from the universities of Oxford, Newcastle, Kent and Bangor found the Netflix series Our Planet dedicated 15 per cent of the script to environmental threats and conservation. This far exceeded the BBC series Planet Earth II and Dynasties.
However, they said it still failed to visually show how threatened the natural world is.
“Considerable research is needed to investigate how viewing nature, portrayed as threatened or pristine, in a documentary affects people in ways which might, ultimately, contribute to saving it.”
Guess what? The results are here as you asked for.
88% of People Who Saw 'Blue Planet II' Have Now Changed Their Lifestyle
We have so much to thank David Attenborough for.
Once you’ve seen albatross parents feeding plastic to their chicks, there's no going back.
The final episode of the BBC’s Blue Planet II has been widely heralded as a key moment sparking the war on plastics.
And new research has shown that an incredible 88% of people who watched the programme have since changed their behaviour as a result. Half of these people said they had “drastically changed” their behaviour, and half said they had “somewhat changed” it.
A new era of environmentalism has taken hold, and attitudes towards single-use bags, disposable plastic straws, and packaging will never be the same,” reads the report.
According to the research, more than 60% of people use reusable water bottles more now than they did in 2017 — and over 70% of 18 to 24-year-olds.
Also, the Wikipedia page of Blue planet II has a list of impacts it had after its release.