David Attenborough shines his light on the human race’s fatal flaw:
Human beings, because we’re so clever, have removed every single one of those [population] limiting factors. . . . So nothing controls our increase in numbers except our own wish. Since I first started making television programs, the population of the world has increased three times. That’s an extraordinary notion. Can it increase four times? Can it increase five times? The Earth is a finite size. So a point will eventually come when we run out of food, when we run out of space and when we will have destroyed most of the natural world. So ought we to do something about it before that happens?
Human beings, because we’re so clever, have removed every single one of those [population] limiting factors. . . . So nothing controls our increase in numbers except our own wish. Since I first started making television programs, the population of the world has increased three times. That’s an extraordinary notion. Can it increase four times? Can it increase five times? The Earth is a finite size. So a point will eventually come when we run out of food, when we run out of space and when we will have destroyed most of the natural world. So ought we to do something about it before that happens?
(Quoted from Science News, November 7, 2009.) For a brief biography of David Attenborough, click here. For images of and related to David Attenborough, click here.
What powers the destruction of Earth is far too many babies per mother. For images of the unspeakable octomom, click here.
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