Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making

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If we’re doing something like Springwatch, it’s not brain surgery; nobody ever dies because you messed something up on television. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. The dating points that people use, like birthdays and Christmas, didn’t exist – everything was just about that day. But it's looking at the impact that we've had on the planet, which unfortunately generates parallels with the previous problems that Earth has faced. Packham rings a number, and says a driver who does some work for him will give me a lift to the station.

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Chris takes us back 800 million years to when a giant supercontinent, Rodinia, broke up and carbon dioxide disappeared from the atmosphere, resulting in a freeze that lasted around 50 million years, before new species emerged. Earth selects five cataclysms from history where our planet's future hung in the balance, condensing over 4.Packham has evolved from a domestic nerd on Springwatch, parting foliage to reveal a vole, into a big-name presenter who can carry the sort of planet-sized show that would once have relied on David Attenborough. He has long been a vociferous opponent of foxhunting, and Wild Justice, the not-for-profit company he co-founded in 2018, has mounted a number of legal challenges against the government and its agencies, fighting the illegal shooting of birds of prey, badger culling and sewage discharge in rivers, among other things.

Earth By Chris Packham | New | 9780008507206 | World of Books

I’m 62 years old, I’m running out of time, I’ve got to try to alleviate some of the grotesque guilt I carry for our generation not having done the work early enough.I’d assumed his condition must be relatively mild, but it doesn’t take long to discover how much it has dominated his life, even if he and his parents never had the word for it.

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A volcanic eruption, a thousand times greater than any ever seen by humans, covered one percent of Earth’s only land mass, Pangea, with liquid fire and released four million cubic kilometres of lava, greenhouse gas and ash. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. It sees Chris Packham, who recently co-hosted Our Changing Planet, travel around the world to examine the significant turning points of the last four and a half billion years, from devastating volcanic eruptions and freezes, to the evolution of plants, the creation of the atmosphere, and the repercussions of human activity. After the surface eruptions stopped, magma that remained underground, not ostensibly incinerating any flora or fauna, burned up coal reserves that created yet more CO2, and set fire to salt that pumped halogens into the air, dissolving the ozone layer and subjecting pollen to mutations caused by unfiltered UV rays.It’s when you lose contact with everything, and no matter what people say to you, it’s not about them any more. He’s reached so many people and instilled that passion for the natural world the like of which nobody could probably do again. With the trademark dramatic storytelling techniques of The Planets and The Universe, Andrew Cohen and Chris Packham narrate the biography of the Earth, revealing the most epic moments from its history, from the first seconds of its existence to the arrival of its most incredible inhabitants, us. My management technique, which was one of utter self-protection, was to not engage with anyone of my age at all. But, after 11,000 years of mankind transforming Earth with technological advancements, what will the future hold?