David Attenborough: Are we doomed for not seeing the bigger picture?

'Perhaps the fact that the people affected by climate change are no longer some imagined future generations but young people alive today, perhaps that will give us the impetus we need to rewrite our story, to turn this tragedy into a triumph,' Mr Attenborough said.

“Is this how our story is due to end – a tale of the smartest species doomed by that all too human characteristic of failing to see the bigger picture in pursuit of short-term goals?”

Those were the sobering words of one of the most instantly recognisable and trusted figures of recent modern history, David Attenborough, as he spoke of the existential crisis around climate change at the Cop26 event in Glasgow.