kickass moves he s got but his voice is extremely kickass. you know, he was one of the first names on the list for the council and we have got this earthshot prize council so we effectively, having gone through a number of filter processes, through expert advisory panels and everything else, it comes to us as the council members to sign off the winners, and david was the first person on the list along with christiana figueres. we needed their expertise, their sort of global interest, to kind of test it on them. i remember, the first meeting with david, discussing about the earthshot prize, and he would sit there and you know, he would look at me very sincerely and nod along and then he sort of, he looked around and thought about it for a bit and then he said, yeah, i think this is exactly what we need and that was my little moment where i was like, do you know what? this is ok. kerching, yeah. has he given you just an amazing piece of advice that you can just link everything to? he
and the positivity, particularly the positivity around the debate, has been missing. it s been very negative. understandably it s such a large issue that everyone feels completely overwhelmed by the facts, the scale of the problems and things like that. so we wanted to break it down and try and work out how could we add something that was going to create action and create positivity, create energy towards actually solving some of these problems? i think for me it sort of formulated and it cemented itself a bit in my mind in namibia about three years ago. i love community conservation and namibia had been some of the world leaders in community conservation. for people who don t know what that is, it is effectively the locals, wherever you are in the world, taking an interest in the management of the wildlife, nature, the environmental assets around them. so they very much manage them, they protect them, they nurture them for their own prosperity. and for me i came away having met loads
an offshore wind turbine. it has taken a bit of time but there s now no doubt that we entering a new revolution, a sustainable revolution. the david attenborough music. this field of turbines of the east coast of england. no david, sadly. he could do this a lot better. this is pretty good for a first timer, actually. and today, britain s offshore wind farms that supply the electricity needs of more than a third of its homes. it is a small step in the right direction. but across the world, we need to do so much more. cool shots. bit of slow mo. love it. the climate is changing faster than ever. which is why fix 0ur climate is one of the five goals of the earthshot prize. there is you standing on the top. yeah, takes about half an hour to get up there. we will award £1 million to a project that will help us to achieve this goal.
charlotte is still a little bit young, she s still not quite sure, and louisjust enjoys playing outside the whole time, he lives outside, but i think it is slowly dawning on them that these things matter. but when you are that young you just want to have fun and enjoy it and i feel bad, i don t want to give them the burden of that worry. i suppose going in the other direction your dad has been worried about this stuff for a very long time and people used to take the mickey out of him a little bit for it. absolutely. i think it has been a hard road for him. my grandfather started off helping out the wwf a long time ago with nature work and biodiversity and i think my father sort of progressed that on and talked about climate change a lot more very early on before anyone else thought it was a topic. yes, he s had a really rough ride on that and i think he has been proven to be well ahead of the curve in his time in warning about some of these dangers. but it shouldn t be that there
in the water or smash onto the deck. so there was a lot of sweaty moments. but no, it was really fun working with the team and filming that. you know, i don t do a david attenborough impression but, you know, he would have done a betterjob but i really enjoyed kind of explaining a bit about what, you know, the awards and things are about. yeah. this is a really dweeby question but do you have a favourite renewable energy because i think everyone has a favourite? that is quite a dweeby question. you know, i don t really know, no. i don t know the stats well enough. i like all renewables. they all come together. we know, like if you go on that website and the national grid tells you what the energy mix is like every second of the day, that s really cool. right, shall we watch another episode? yes. now, this is where we get introduced to the legend that is sir david attenborough. good. here in the british isles, over the centuries, we have long since turned our natural wildernesses into a