“The Moment Of Crisis Has Come”: David Attenborough Slams Australia’s Climate Change Inaction
"This is an urgent problem that has to be solved. And what is more is we know how to do it -- that's the paradoxical thing -- that we are refusing to take steps that we know have to be taken."
Guys, we’ve done it again. We’ve disappointed Sir David Attenborough, the man we should be protecting at all costs.
The 93-year-old icon singled us out when criticising the global response to climate change, saying it was “palpable nonsense” for people to suggest our bushfires had nothing to do with climate change.
“As I speak, south-east Australia is on fire. Why? Because the temperatures of the Earth are increasing,” he told the BBC.
It seems like an obvious statement to make, but since we’re apparently living in a Twilight Zone where people believe internet trolls over scientists, it’s one that still has to be made.
Stay in your lane, Attenborough!
I’ll be getting my climate change policy advice from that racist former fish and chip shop owner with a 9th grade education.
— Scott Morrison Robot PM (@roboscomo) January 16, 2020
The iconic naturalist went on to say the world needs to start “making some life or death decisions”.
“The moment of crisis has come,” he said.
“We can’t go on saying: ‘But there is hope and we’ll leave it till next year’. We have to change. This is an urgent problem that has to be solved. And what is more is we know how to do it — that’s the paradoxical thing — that we are refusing to take steps that we know have to be taken.”
“Every year that passes makes those steps more and more difficult to achieve.”
It’s not the first time our coal-loving government has been caught in Attenborough’s crosshairs.
“You are the keepers of an extraordinary section of the surface of this planet, including the Barrier Reef, and what you say, what you do, really, really matters,” he told Triple J last September.
“And then you suddenly say, ‘No it doesn’t matter … it doesn’t matter how much coal we burn … we don’t give a damn what it does to the rest of the world.'”
fair warning, when david attenborough dies i might just lie down and die too
— Charlotte Conley (@char_mae_c) January 16, 2020
Honestly, at this point I’d lobby for climate action purely because it breaks my heart knowing David Attenborough is mad at us.
