“Attenborough warns on population”, BBC News, 13/4. This article reports that Sir David Attenborough has become a patron of the UK-based Optimum Population Trust, as he is very concerned at the drastic increase in human population during his lifetime.
On joining the Optimum Population Trust, Sir David said growth in human numbers was “frightening”. Sir David has been increasingly vocal about the need to reduce the number of people on Earth to protect wildlife.
I have enjoyed his TV nature documentaries for many years, so it’s nice to know he is concerned about the issue. For future generations – perhaps as early as mid-century – the documentaries may be poignant records of environments and species which have vanished by then, no thanks to their destruction by humans.
