In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast… — 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
Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population.… — 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
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 have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in… — 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
I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in… — 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
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
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
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
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 Image
I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition. — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
