(sr) David Attenborough: A life on our planet (documentary)

If we take care of nature, nature will take care of us. It’s now time for our species to stop simply growing to established a life on our planet in balance with nature, to start to thrive. When you think about it, we are completing a journey. 10,000 years ago we lived a sustainable life because that was the only option. All these years later, it’s once again the only option. We need to rediscover how to be sustainable. To move from being apart from nature to becoming a part of nature once again.

If we can change the way we live on earth an alternative future comes into view. In this future we discover ways to benefit from our land that help, rather than hinder, wilderness. And ways to harvest our forests sustainably. We will finally learn how to work with nature rather than against it.

I like the idea of having the need to rediscover how to be sustainable again as our only option to live on this planet. My fictional story for the film is based on this idea, of a potential future in which humans have thrived to be part of nature once again, a future where the only way of living is like it was 10,000 years, where evolution means looking back.