I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
Interpretation
David Attenborough emphasizes the undeniable impact of human activity on climate change.
In this quote, David Attenborough expresses his astonishment at the idea that human actions, such as population growth and industrialization, have not altered the Earth's climate. He asserts that the evidence of climate change is overwhelming and that any argument denying this reality lacks validity, highlighting the urgent need for awareness and action against environmental degradation.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about environmental conservation at a climate rally.
I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of human beings. Children and the elderly in tropical regions (usually the poorest) are the most widely affected. A painful, slow death is virtually certain. The worm can actually live in the host for 17 years before the host finally dies.
The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.
I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.
...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment as the communities that our parents gave us, we've got to start by protecting that infrastructure; the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, the landscapes that enrich us.
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.
To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.
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