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Book:Life on our planet

Author David Attenborough

Genre: journalism

Score (1 to 6): 6

One of the first books I want to tell you about in more detail than I was able to describe on Instagram is Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough.

This is a book I read recently, but I think the effect of what I read will stick with me for years. I've been more interested in living an eco-friendly lifestyle for some time and trying to make choices in that direction. That's what I was thinking about when I reached for the book - I'm going to educate myself some more.

I didn't expect it to have such an effect on me at all. At the very least, I didn't expect to go into deep thoughts about life and question almost all my plans for the future. Well, it happened.

First, I'll give you a little "background":

- About David Attenborough: he was born in May 1926. Both of my grandfathers, who have been out of this world for quite some time, were born that year. A juxtaposition that makes David's youth seem even more distant to me. And so, the information he provides - even more valuable.

In the 1950s he became the first presenter of the world's first television (BBC) to make a programme about wild animals and went into the field to show the whole world the footage. In some ways he originated the idea of National Geographic and all similar channels.

- For me: in the last 3-4 years, the eco-friendly lifestyle has started to come into my life more and more, after the topic of the destruction of our planet finally managed to get my attention. If you haven't gotten into it yet and do, you'll notice that it has a digging effect - the more you dig into it, the more information comes out.

So, since I was already familiar with the topic (decently) I was expecting the title to make me more excited. But instead I was abruptly confronted with reality - we live in the most benign, peaceful (at least until recently) times, with a burgeoning technological and even cultural revolution, and we have turned our backs on literally the most important factor in this - the planet we live on. David Atterborough calls his text "testimony" and I like that so much. We are literally a combination of criminals and witnesses to a serious crime.

His testimony, from the beginning of his journalistic career until today, shows a different world, changed in just one human lifetime. A world that for hundreds of thousands of years has only gone up, evolved and developed in the most intelligent way known to man. Until man "evolved" to sapiens with a technological revolution.

I will not write more details about the content of the book, because it definitely with

and worth reading. If only for the beautiful landscapes of jungles, savannahs, wonderful animal species, glaciers and close encounters with African tribes. And, as a bonus, there are wonderful photographs.

Amid the growing war, the world situation increasingly reminds me of the last season of Game of Thrones, when the final battle for the Iron Throne is near, but another threat looms seriously over the world - the threat of a clash with the army beyond the shaft. This is exactly the analogy I would make with the world right now - the 'big guys' are on the verge of a huge clash for power and money that will devastate millions of lives, not realising that a far more terrifying and important battle is on the brink - that of climate change. With ourselves. Perhaps the world's population should also first unite against the common enemy and save the world. And then, if there is still a pressing need, we will divide up the territory we have fought for.