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Across the globe, the pressures faced by the natural world
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Extinction: The Facts

Across the globe, the pressuresfaced by the natural world are becoming ever harder to...

Across the globe, the pressures
faced by the natural world are becoming ever harder to solve because of our growing demand
for nature's resources

Full Transcript

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Across the globe, the pressures faced by the natural world
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are becoming ever harder to solve
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because of our growing demand for nature's resources.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:35
Uploaded
Jun 03, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
BBC Studios

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Movie Summary

With a million species at risk of extinction, Sir David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all, threatening food and water security, undermining our ability to control our climate and even putting us at greater risk of pandemic diseases.
When I was a kid in the 1960s, - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
When I was a kid in the 1960s,
So I watched it go to six billion around 2000 or so, - Extinction: The Facts 00:12
So I watched it go to six billion around 2000 or so,
Population growth is much, much higher in the developing world - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
Population growth is much, much higher in the developing wor...
But it's problematic to just talk about population - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
But it's problematic to just talk about population
It's population, but it's also consumption. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
It's population, but it's also consumption.
And in terms of impact on the planet, - Extinction: The Facts 00:12
And in terms of impact on the planet,
That's why I call it a taboo topic, because who's at fault? - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
That's why I call it a taboo topic, because who's ...
Is it the very large number of people, - Extinction: The Facts 00:10
Is it the very large number of people,
The average person in the UK consumes nearly four times - Extinction: The Facts 00:14
The average person in the UK consumes nearly four times
One of the problems is that many of the products we use are manufactured - Extinction: The Facts 00:14
One of the problems is that many of the products we use are ...
While in a country like the United Kingdom, - Extinction: The Facts 00:13
While in a country like the United Kingdom,
Most of the things that we actually use are produced abroad in countries - Extinction: The Facts 00:10
Most of the things that we actually use are produced abroad ...
So we are simply moving our footprint on destroying nature - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
So we are simply moving our footprint on destroying nature
Pollutants can have a lasting impact on species - - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
Pollutants can have a lasting impact on species -
PCB stand for polychlorinated biphenyls. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
PCB stand for polychlorinated biphenyls.
We invented them in the '20s - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
We invented them in the '20s
They affect the immune system - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
They affect the immune system
If PCBs are not disposed of appropriately, - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
If PCBs are not disposed of appropriately,
Animals at the base of the food chain - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
Animals at the base of the food chain
But then as animals above them eat more and more of the small animals, - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
But then as animals above them eat more and more of the smal...