By Paul Homewood
h/t Phil Salmon
Admirers of “cuddly” David Attenborough might like to recall what he said in 2013:
Sir David Attenborough has attacked the idea of sending food aid to countries enduring famine as “barmy” and has urged for more debate about population control, it has been reported.
The natural history broadcaster warned that the world was “heading for disaster” due to the threat of overpopulation, in comments made to the Daily Telegraph.
He said that unless human beings do not act soon the “natural world will do something”.
He added that the natural world has been doing it “for a long time” and more discussion is needed.
Raising the example of Ethiopia, Sir David said that the famine there was down to there being “too many people for too little piece of land”.
Speaking ahead of his new series David Attenborough’s Rise of Animals, he suggested that humans are “blinding ourselves” to the problem, claiming, “We say, get the United Nations to send them bags of flour. That’s barmy”.
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April 27, 2019 at 05:42AM
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