I'm A Humanist. I'm Neither One Side

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.

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.

Fundamentally Not To Waste Energy. If We Were All To Reduce Our Demands For Energy, It Would Make An Enormous Amount Of Difference.

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 Natural World. So Ought We To Do Something About It Before That Happens?

In The Old Days... It Was A Basic, Cardinal Fact That Producers Didn't Have Opinions. When I Was Producing Natural History Programmes, I Didn't Use Them As Vehicles For My Own Opinion. They Were Factual Programmes.