the single farthest habitat there is
The most remote habitat of all exists at the extreme north and south of the planet.David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet · 2020 — Capítulo 10 de 10 · 2'26" · C1
No Ice Where Ice Was, Explained: headed for disaster
The poles look like a world apart, but the arrivals tell a different story. People reach places expecting expanses of sea ice and find none, and boats now reach islands once permanently locked in the ice. Under the travel log is a harder claim: "Our planet is losing its ice," and that distant ecosystem "is headed for disaster."
Qué pasa
The polar regions were beyond imagination. The speaker has watched Arctic summers warm: arrivals expecting sea ice found none, and boats now reach islands once locked in ice. The ocean can no longer absorb the excess heat from human activity. The planet is one degree warmer than when the speaker was born, summer sea ice is down 40 percent in 40 years, and the ecosystem is headed for disaster.
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beyond imaginationa life in the extremein my timefound none
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headed for disaster
moving toward ruin, not there yet
The last line calls the cleanest, farthest ecosystem headed for disaster: ruin is not claimed as finished, but the direction is.
This budget is headed for disaster if the repairs keep slipping.
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- beyond imagination
too extraordinary to picture
- a life in the extreme
a whole way of living inside extreme conditions
- in my time
within my own lifetime
- found none
the expected thing was absent
- locked in
shut so that passage fails
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too extraordinary to picture
Right after the poles are called the most remote habitat, someone remembers them as beyond imagination, still in a tone of wonder.
They've always been a place beyond imagination...no match anywhere on the planet
with scenery unlike anything else on earth...already adapted to that way of life
and unique species adapted to a life in the extreme.a whole way of living inside extreme conditions
Still inside the portrait of wonder, someone adds that these species live a life in the extreme: a whole way of life, not a temporary task.
and unique species adapted to a life in the extreme.Let and stay light and move the weight onto unique at once.
and unique species adapted to a life in the extreme.within my own lifetime
Once the distant world is said to be changing, in my time ties warmer Arctic summers to one lifespan, as witness rather than overview.
In my time, I've experienced the warming of Arctic summers.expected it to be there
We have arrived at locations expecting to find expanses of sea ice and found none.wide unbroken stretches of sea ice
We have arrived at locations expecting to find expanses of sea ice and found none.the expected thing was absent
At the sharpest drop, someone reports arriving where sea ice should be, and found none ends it without excuse or image.
We have arrived at locations expecting to find expanses of sea ice and found none.participle clause: Expecting modifies the arrival; found is the verb paired with arrived.
We have arrived at locations expecting to find expanses of sea ice and found none.Put the weight on none and do not punch every earlier word.
We have arrived at locations expecting to find expanses of sea ice and found none.not merely hard; unreachable then
We've managed to travel by boat to islands that were impossible to get to historically because they were permanently locked in the ice.sealed shut by ice no lock; the ice itself kept the island closed
We've managed to travel by boat to islands that were impossible to get to historically because they were permanently locked in the ice.relative clause: The that-clause says which islands, and because gives the ice as the reason.
We've managed to travel by boat to islands that were impossible to get to historically because they were permanently locked in the ice.Keep locked and in together, with only a light touch between them.
We've managed to travel by boat to islands that were impossible to get to historically because they were permanently locked in the ice.already firmly demonstrated
the reasons for these changes was well established.true long ago, and still true
After the causes are called long settled, long since says the ocean's failure to take the extra heat is old, not fresh.
The ocean has long since become unable to absorb all the excess heat caused by our activities.no longer able to take something in
The ocean has long since become unable to absorb all the excess heat caused by our activities.surplus heat
The ocean has long since become unable to absorb all the excess heat caused by our activities.using one's birth year as the baseline
As a result, the average global temperature today is one degree Celsius warmer than it was when I was born.comparative clause: Than compares today's temperature with the one at the speaker's birth.
As a result, the average global temperature today is one degree Celsius warmer than it was when I was born.Let than and was ride along instead of standing as full beats.
As a result, the average global temperature today is one degree Celsius warmer than it was when I was born.how fast it changes, not what it became
A speed of change that exceeds any in the last 10,000 years.fragment relative: The line has no main verb; the that-clause says how fast the change is.
A speed of change that exceeds any in the last 10,000 years.a drop of forty percent, not a remainder
Summer sea ice in the Arctic has reduced by 40% in 40 years.in the process of losing ice it had
Our planet is losing its ice.moving toward ruin, not there yet
The last line calls the cleanest, farthest ecosystem headed for disaster: ruin is not claimed as finished, but the direction is.
This most pristine and distant of ecosystems is headed for disaster.of-superlative: Most…of picks one ecosystem out as the cleanest and the farthest.
This most pristine and distant of ecosystems is headed for disaster.Skim headed for, then set disaster down on its own.
This most pristine and distant of ecosystems is headed for disaster.No Ice Where Ice Was, explicado
What's really going on
Remote habitats and scenery unlike anything else give way to a blunt turn: "But that distant world is changing." In one lifetime, Arctic summers have warmed. The visits that expected ice end in a flat report: "We have arrived at locations expecting to find expanses of sea ice and found none." Islands once "permanently locked in the ice" can now be reached by boat. By 2011, when Frozen Planet aired, the reasons were already well established. The ocean has long since been unable to absorb the excess heat from human activity. The world is one degree Celsius warmer than when the speaker was born, faster than any change in 10,000 years. Summer sea ice is down 40 percent in 40 years. "Our planet is losing its ice." The last line does not say the disaster is finished. This pristine ecosystem "is headed for disaster."
Theme
MemoryThe measure is one life: Arctic summers warmed in the speaker's time, and the world is a degree warmer than when the speaker was born.
SurvivalSpecies adapted to the extreme now face a world losing its ice, and that distant ecosystem is headed for disaster.
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- and unique species — Let and stay light and move the weight onto unique at once.
- found none — Put the weight on none and do not punch every earlier word.
- locked in the — Keep locked and in together, with only a light touch between them.
- than it was — Let than and was ride along instead of standing as full beats.
We have arrived at locations expecting to find expanses of sea ice and found none.The point of the journey was the ice. The locations were reached, and the sea ice that was supposed to be spread out there was missing.
We've managed to travel by boat to islands that were impossible to get to historically because they were permanently locked in the ice.Islands that history could not reach, because permanent ice sealed them in, are now accessible by boat. The barrier itself is what has changed.
The ocean has long since become unable to absorb all the excess heat caused by our activities.The ocean's job was to take in extra heat from human activity. That ability ran out long ago, and it still has not come back.
As a result, the average global temperature today is one degree Celsius warmer than it was when I was born.The benchmark is the speaker's own birth. Today's average global temperature is one degree Celsius higher than it was then.
Our planet is losing its ice.A direct statement of the loss: the ice that belongs to the planet is going.
This most pristine and distant of ecosystems is headed for disaster.Not a claim that the disaster is already over. The cleanest, most remote ecosystem is on a course toward it.
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Why can boats reach islands that used to be unreachable?
Those islands were permanently locked in the ice, which is why they were impossible to get to historically. The narration says boats have managed to reach them now.
How much warmer is the planet than when the speaker was born?
One degree Celsius. The narration links that rise to the ocean no longer absorbing all the excess heat from human activity, and says the speed exceeds any change in the last 10,000 years.
What is headed for disaster?
The most pristine and distant of ecosystems — the polar world just described. The line says it is headed for disaster, not that the disaster has already fully arrived.
Why bring up Frozen Planet and 2011?
To place the changes in time: by the time that series aired, the reasons for them were already well established.
David Attenborough: Una vida en nuestro planeta · 10 capítulos
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Capítulo 2achingly intricateAttenborough at the Disused Quarry
Capítulo 3like clockworkThe Holocene Was Our Eden
Capítulo 4come crashing downGrzimek Charts the Serengeti
Capítulo 5an edge toDavid Sees the Blue Marble
Capítulo 6little more thanWhaling Turns from Harvest to Crime
Capítulo 7dizzying diversityOil Palms Behind the Green Curtain
Capítulo 8reap the open ocean harvestThe Ocean Starts to Die
Capítulo 9stumbled onCoral Reefs Turn White
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