Attenborough says humans a 'plague on earth'

Subject: Attenborough says humans a 'plague on earth' Fri Jan 25, 2013 3:41 pm

Every now and then, Britain's best-loved naturalist takes a break from spying on the bedroom behaviour of birds of paradise to sound off about humans' impact on the environment. When he does, it almost always makes headlines - not only because he's Sir David Attenborough, but because he calls it as he sees it.

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In October, he took Mitt Romney, Barack Obama and America at large to task for their failure to face up to climate change. That sentiment may have ruffled a few feathers stateside but is relatively uncontroversial in his home country. This time, in an interview with the British TV-listings magazine Radio Times, he stepped in it a little deeper.

"We are a plague on the Earth," Attenborough said of humanity as a whole, in a quote promptly picked up by London's Times and Telegraph and plastered on the Drudge Report. "It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so." The full interview is available only in print, but the Independent cribbed from it liberally enough to give you the gist. "It's not just climate change," Attenborough went on. "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."

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv/8224895/Attenborough-says-humans-a-plague-on-earth

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Attenborough says humans a 'plague on earth'

Attenborough says humans a 'plague on earth'

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