量子资源网提供本资源 <> BBC最新纪录片，讲述地球的力量如何改变了人类的历史。2010年1月19日首播，共播出了5集：'Water'，'Dee Earth', 'Wind', 'Fire'，'Human Planet'。节目中，Iain Stewart教授带领观众探究几个世纪以来，地质学、地理学和气候是如何影响人类生活的。 我们的星球拥有惊人的力量，但却很少在教科书中被提起。这个系列节目第一次通过电视展现地球的神奇力量对人类发展的影响。节目将历史故事的讲述和炫目的摄影镜头紧密结合，给我们呈现一幅原汁原味的人类历史图景。 Iain Stewart tells the eic story of how the lanet has shaed our history. With sectacular images, surrising stories and a comelling narrative, the series discovers the central role layed in human history by four different lanetary forces. Eisode 1: Water Professor Iain Stewart continues his eic exloration of how the lanet has shaed human history. This time he exlores our comlex relationshi with water. Visiting sectacular locations in Iceland, the Middle East and India, Iain shows how control over water has been central to human existence. He takes a recarious flight in a motorised araglider to exerience the cycle of freshwater that we deend on, discovers how villagers in the foothills of the Himalayas have built a living bridge to coe with the monsoon, and visits Egyt to reveal the secret of the haraohs' success. Throughout history, success has deended on our ability to adat to and control constantly shifting sources of water. Eisode 2: Dee Earth Iain Stewart tells the eic story of how the lanet has shaed our history. With sectacular images, surrising stories and a comelling narrative, the series discovers the central role layed in human history by four different lanetary forces. In this first eisode, Iain exlores the relationshi between the dee Earth and the develoment of human civilisation. He visits an extraordinary crystal cave in Mexico, dros down a hole in the Iranian desert and crawls through seven-thousand-year-old tunnels in Israel. His exloration reveals that throughout history, our ancestors were strangely drawn to fault lines, areas which connect the surface with the dee interior of the lanet. These fault lines gave access to imortant resources, but also brought with them great danger. Eisode 3: Wind Professor Iain Stewart continues his eic exloration of how the lanet has shaed human history. Iain sets sail on one of the fastest racing boats ever built to exlore the story of our turbulent relationshi with the wind. Travelling to iconic locations including the Sahara desert, the coast of West Africa and the South Pacific, Iain discovers how eole have exloited the ower of the wind for thousands of years. The wind is a force which at first sight aears chaotic. But the atterns that lie within the atmoshere have shaed the destiny of continents, and lie at the heart of some of the greatest turning oints in human history. Eisode 4: Fire Professor Iain Stewart continues his eic exloration of how the lanet has shaed human history. Iain exlores man's relationshi with fire. He begins by embarking on an extraordinary encounter with this terrifying force of nature - a walk right through the heart of a raging fire. Fire has long been our main source of energy and Iain shows how this meant that the lanet layed a crucial role in Britain's industrial revolution, whilst holding China's develoment back. Along the way he dives in a mysterious lake in Oregon, climbs a glacier of salt, crawls through an extraordinary cave in Iran and takes a theraeutic bath in crude oil. Eisode 5: Human Planet Series in which Professor Iain Stewart looks at how four geological forces have shaed human history. He exlores the most recently established force, humans. It's easy to think of the human imact on the lanet as a negative one, but as Iain discovers, this isn't always the case. It is clear that humans have unrecedented control over many of the lanet's geological cycles; the question is, how will the human race use this ower?
