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There is no question that clim...

There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

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You can cry about death and ve...

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

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People talk about doom-laden s...

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.

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Cameramen are among the most e...

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

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The process of making natural ...

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

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Natural history is not about p...

Natural history is not about producing fables.

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I had a huge advantage when I ...

I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.

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The climate, the economic situ...

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

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I often get letters, quite fre...

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.

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Nature isn't positive in that ...

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

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Steve Irwin did wonderful cons...

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

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If I were beginning my career ...

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.

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I don't think whole population...

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

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One in eight plant species fac...

One in eight plant species face extinction.

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The World is full of wonders, ...

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

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Human beings, because we're so...

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 nat

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In the Baboon community, it is...

In the Baboon community, it is not how strong you are that is important, but who you know that counts

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Anyone who believes in indefin...

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist

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The correct scientific respons...

The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.

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If we and the rest of the back...

If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse

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