Crying Wolf Is A Real Danger.

At A Time When It's Possible For Thirty People To Stand On The Top Of Everest In One Day, Antarctica Still Remains A Remote, Lonely And Desolate Continent. A Place Where It's Possible To See The Splendours And Immensities Of The Natural World At Its Most Dramatic And, What's More, Witness Them Almost Exactly As They Were, Long, Long Before Human Beings Ever Arrived On The Surface Of This Planet. Long May It Remain So.

You'll Discover In Countries Where Women Have Control Over Their Own Bodies, Where They Have Education, Where They Have Birth Control, Where They Have Facilities And Where They Are Literate, When Those Things Happen, The Birth Rate Falls.

If My Grandchildren Were To Look At Me And Say, 'you Were Aware Species Were Disappearing And You Did Nothing, You Said Nothing', That I Think Is Culpable. I Don't Know How Much More They Expect Me To Be Doing, I'd Better Ask Them.

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.

I Would Be Absolutely Astounded If Population Growth And Industrialisation And All The Stuff We Are Pumping Into The Atmosphere Hadn't Changed The Climatic Balance. Of Course It Has. There Is No Valid Argument For Denial.