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That's why I call it a taboo topic, because who's at fault?
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Extinction: The Facts

That's why I call it a taboo topic,because who's at fault?

That's why I call it a taboo topic,
because who's at fault?

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That's why I call it a taboo topic, because who's at fault?
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5 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:22:30
Uploaded
Jun 03, 2025
Genres
documentary
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BBC Studios

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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.
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...
In the UK, we have one really striking example of that. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
In the UK, we have one really striking example of that.
The last remaining pod of in-shore killer whales - Extinction: The Facts 00:09
The last remaining pod of in-shore killer whales
That population has been studied for about 30 years. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
That population has been studied for about 30 years.
She died due to entanglement in fishing gear. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
She died due to entanglement in fishing gear.
When we had her blubber levels analysed for PCBs, - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
When we had her blubber levels analysed for PCBs,
One of the highest levels ever recorded - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
One of the highest levels ever recorded
And when we looked at her ovaries, we found they were non-functional. - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
And when we looked at her ovaries, we found they were non-fu...