The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
When I was a boy in the 1930s, the carbon dioxide level was still below 300 parts per million. This year, it… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important.… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
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… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough Copy Share
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. — David Attenborough Copy Share
Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of… — David Attenborough Copy Share
I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings,… — David Attenborough Copy Share
“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about… — David Attenborough Copy Share
At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote,… — David Attenborough Copy Share
I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival. — David Attenborough Copy Share
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on… — David Attenborough Copy Share
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the… — David Attenborough Copy Share
This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years… — David Attenborough Copy Share
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of… — David Attenborough Copy Share
In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts — David Attenborough Copy Share
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