Friday, January 25, 2013

[Sigh] Well, It Looks Like Another Childhood Idol Has Fallen

I was a big fan of this guy and his nature and documentaries when I was a kid. Maybe, not so much now...

Hat-tip to Andy, over at Ace of Spades HQ:
David Attenborough - Humans are plague on Earth

The television presenter said that humans are threatening their own existence and that of other species by using up the world’s resources.

He said the only way to save the planet from famine and species extinction is to limit human population growth.

“We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now,” he told the Radio Times.
I do appreciate Jim Treacher's thoughts on the matter, via Ed Driscoll's Soylent Green is Sushi!:
“Presumably, Attenborough’s own children and grandchildren are exempted from this problem, as are the descendants of Sting, Al Gore, and every other lefty who has watched Soylent Green one too many times,” Jim Treacher adds. “Their use of the world’s resources is just fine, because it just is and you can shut up now.

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