A Tribute to Sir David Attenborough

 
Sir David Attenborough sat beside the footprints of prehistoric human, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania From The Life of Mammals (2002)

Three and half million years seperate the individual tho left these footprints in the sands of Africa from the one who left them on the moon. A mere blink in the eye of evolution. Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever-increasing population. In spite of disaster when civilisations has over-reached themselves, that process has continued indeed accelerated, even today. Now mankind is looking for food, not just on this planet but on others. Perhaps the time has come to put that process into reverse. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we control the population to allow the survival of the environment.

Sir David Attenborough, in The Life of Mammals (2002)