“They are the people who are going to inherit the mess that we’ve made.”
David Attenborough has praised the young people around the world taking a stand against climate change.
The veteran BBC presenter and all round sound lad said that he has great respect for the Greta Thunbergs of the world, because they are taking real action against a very real issue.
Before last Friday’s global climate strike, Attenborough told Triple J Hack that he approved of students’ non-violent approach to protesting.
He also praised them for tackling the issue with poise and spreading their message “very clearly.”
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“If they just sit on the sidelines (…) they’ll say, ‘oh kids,’ but if they actually do something in the way that they have been doing in this era, then politicians have to sit up and take notice,” he said.
Attenborough said that although some have criticised young people for “just stopping traffic,” he pointed out that the strikes have made waves across the globe.
“They are important,” he said. “They are the people who are going to inherit the mess that we’ve made.”
“The world is sick, we really have to do things about it. And there’s no more time for argument.”
Attenborough, who has been lamenting the effects of climate change for years, is currently in the middle of his latest project, Extinction: The Facts.
The BBC documentary will consider what mass extinction of plants and animals would mean for the globe, and humanity, as more endangered species continue to die out.
The documentary is due to be released next year.
You can watch Attenborough’s interview in full here:
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