So you just proved my point
and big ******* deal I don't really care how many people there are on this rock because only a few matter to me.
"We are a plague on the Earth," Attenborough told the Radio Times, as
reported by the Telegraph. "It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so."
Attenborough went on to say that both climate change and "sheer space" were looming problems for humanity.
"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," he said.
Attenborough is not the only naturalist who has warned of population growth outstripping resources. Paul Ehrlich, the president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University and author of "The Population Bomb" (Sierra Club-Ballantine, 1968) has long used language similar to Attenborough's. And in 2011, an analysis of species loss suggested that humans are beginning
to cause a mass extinction on the order of the one that killed the dinosaurs.
When asked about Attenborough's comments on humanity as its own scourge, Ehrlich told LiveScience he "completely agree(d), as does every other scientist who understands the situation." [
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Even so, that doesn't mean forceful measures must be taken. "Government propaganda, taxes, giving every sexually active human being access to
modern contraception and backup abortion, and, especially, giving women absolutely equal rights and opportunities with men might very well get the global population shrinkage required if a collapse is to be avoided," Ehrlich said.
In fact, providing free,
reliable birth control to women could prevent between 41 percent and 71 percent of abortions in the United States, according to a study detailed in the Oct. 4, 2012, issue of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Other scientists also agreed to some extent with the heart of Attenborough's message.
Sir David Attenborough, the famed British naturalist and television presenter, has some harsh words for humanity. "We are a plague on the Earth," Attenborough told the Radio Times, as reported by the Telegraph. "It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so."
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