Attenborough warning - The human plague

Few public figures in the English-speaking world are as respected as TV naturalist David Attenborough. For more than half a century he has shown us the beauty — and nature red in tooth and claw — all around us.

Attenborough warning - The human plague

He has raised consciousness about the world’s really big issues and defining challenges so his opinions carry great weight. He is neither patronising nor hysterical. His record confers him with a degree of authority and integrity that we would be foolish to ignore.

So when he warns that human beings have become a “plague on the Earth” we should listen.

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