Sir David Attenborough on life, death, climate change and the future of the planet | Triple J Hack
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Sir David Attenborough has slammed Australian leaders for inaction on climate change in this wide-ranging interview with triple j’s Hack program.
The world’s most renowned natural historian speaks about his life’s work, his least favourite animal, school students striking for climate change action, the future of the planet, and his views on religion and what happens after death.
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It would be rather difficult to quantify the amount of value any given person has provided to this world but I believe that if you could, this man would be pretty high on that list.
David should be able life forever
He is the chosen one
He protects the earth
Stacy Eremeeva well said💖
lmao classic!
Agree!
Except that living forever, but continuing to age would be a living nightmare...
hes the only famous person that really voices environmental problems
"You're still doing so much, for someone in their *nineties* ."
I literally said out loud "HE'S WHAT?" and stared at my screen for five minutes when I read he's actually 93.
This is the man who taught me to love our world, to care for our planet. Thanks to him i get the opportunity to teach Wildlife Conservation and how to save our planet. I'm only 15 but because of the school i attend they let me teach this to kids form age 7 all the way to 17. I have learnt so much of this man and i would love to meet him one day.
Awesome❤️
How can a 15 year old teach anything LOL
Further evidence to my attitude that people who are able to say "I don't know" (when they also do have informed opinions) are the best people.
YEP LOVE YOUR COMMENT.
They are humble people which you don't get much of these days : ]
It's such an important thing for us to learn, both individually and as a species. Inventing answers to questions beyond our understanding leads to a lack of desire to learn and to understand.
Folks who say “I don’t know” in the responsible way, having paid their due diligence, are the wisest of them all. Truly
Agree fully, on many occasions, you have to say “I don’t know”!
As long as you try to find answers and solutions to the unknown!
Sir David is a national treasure. I already know that I'm going to cry when he's no longer with us and I really fear for our natural world when that day comes.
Every time his name crops up on Twitter's popularity feed, I have to rush off to the BBC website and make sure he's still with us.
He is a world treasure,not just a national...
@Caz Za I don't believe he was ever cruel. But what were you doing for the planet 50 years ago, things may have been different then, but he was making us aware of the natural world.
He is such a blessing. His passion is contagious.
He is a liar!!! Do you like liars?
Alex V lies? explain.
Brilliant interview. Brilliant man. I'm going to cry the day I read he has passed on.
Long live this great man, a humanist to the core
I was just thinking the same thing. He still seems vibrant and passionate, but we all come to an end and his death will move me. I’ve been raised on his nature programmes all my life and any natural history programme presented by someone else seems alien when I watch it. He’s the voice of natural history.
he will live forever
I used to like him, until he lied about the walruses killing themselves in the name of , climate change, cough bs cough. he is a UN muppet.
@@jrhughes3190 u misunderstood him
Attenborough is our grandad.♥
No David, the amazing shots are just the cherry on top! We love you! Your passion, and your voice in such a disappointing political climate. 😍
Love u sir david! Thanks for EVERYTHING! You will ALWAYS BE WITH US!
🌍💙💚
Hello Sir David Attenborough. I'm 6 and you are my hero. This is my nature conservation channel, inspired by you.
What a treat. When he opens his mouth you know it's going to be diamonds. I don't think I ever agreed with any known person as I agree with Sir David. And how lucky we are to have such a treasure live with us for so long. It just generally doesn't happen.
A truly wonderful interview with a man who has given so much
He’s like a national grandad who’s stories tells the 40 year old kids the most interesting things of the world.
There has been others but he does it with such commitment.
We owe him so much. What a tireless advocate for living creatures.
He’s in his 90’s yet looks and sounds still very sharp. Thank you, eternally for your work
What a living legend! Been watching Sir David Attenborough since I was a kid. Loved your comments about God. A world through the eyes of evolution is far more interesting and exciting.
Sir Attenborough is one of the hero’s in my life & my children’s lives.
I remember his first dive in the coral reef when I was in hi school.
He, Jacque Cousteau, Valery Taylor inspired my son to study oceanography
& become a scientist himself.
THANK YOU ❗️❤️
I'm trying to make good personal choices and I am changing the way I shop. I'm trying to buy less plastic packaging. Almost everything comes in plastic. 1) We need to demand a near future ban on plastic packaging
2) we need a comprehensive program to make every home, school and every other airconditioned building efficient, preferably with recycled fibers such as cellulose insulation, which is made from waste paper from schools, offices, etc. And is 40% more fuel efficient than fiberglass. 40% is a bunch of wasted fossil fuel. Think about every house that is poorly insulated, burning fossil fuels to heat and cool all year long. And it would put people to work doing the rehabs, an investment in the workforce that will yield tax money in the coffers, which we can put toward more projects that will reduce our pollution.
3) encourage small local farmers to produce more than monoculture crops. Local produce and animal products would cut shipping fuel usage and refrigeration costs and electricity usage.
There are so many more things that we can be doing with technology that already exists to make a livable world possible for following generations
Exactly.
The best thing you can do as an Australian is stop buying products produced in countries with no epa and made to break. Buy Australian made. The way we waste our resources and buy from polluting multinational corporate industries is as big if not a bigger problem than our coal plants. The pacific islands use diesel generators ! The only way things get better is if we become a correctly informed not fear indoctrinated direct democracy and only do business with other like minded countries.
Sanguinarius9999 maybe we should create an Oceania Union?
100 years ago the governments of this wold should have listened to Nicola Tesla. we would have had abundant free energy for everyone
chieftain 76 nice comment I agree. Also would like to add that eating animals is the largest contributor to environmental destruction.
This has been the best thing ive seen all week
An old man telling lies is the best thing you've seen all week?
Anders Jensen lies? care to explain?
This man the the ASMR of my childhood, and, as a consequence, the voice of my adult conscience.
My sentiments exactly 🤘🏼
Sir David Your a gift to the planet 👍💪😇
all ages love your docos sir..your knowledge is outstanding ❤✔
Slavery became intolerable because we found a way to get what we wanted without them- we industrialised. For the same thing to happen with climate change, we would have to find a similar technological marvel, like say, cheap clean energy.
Or just reintroduce slavery.....
**cough** nuclear power **cough**
@@isakpalsson9012
The fact is the promoters of the political processes in climate change are looking to a reintroduction of a global elite and a global genocide; pretty much the communist/socialist Utopia again.
Unfortunately Sir David is one of many spokesmen for this cause.
Good Luck and Cheers!
A great interview, what a legend! I wish world leaders were that sound of mind.
An absolute pleasure Tom & David 🙏
Dude I have loved this guy since I was shown his work by my high school zoology/chemistry teacher! And heM’s 91 and still working and doing what he does so wonderfully! Does anyone else feel like he’s going to work till 110 and live to st least 120! Listen to how sharp he sounds and spry he looks and moves!
Man has failed us all!!!! We have not taken care of the earth as we should and we deserve to loose it!!!!! It is too late to fix it!!!!! Technology has ruined everything!!!!!!!
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The way he walks in and sits down at the start shows he's still very sprightly for a 93 year old 💪
The biggest problem we face is overpopulation and this has been an increasing problem since the 1940's when antibiotics became freely available to the public. We have completely wiped out the balance of equilibrium and cheated death. (Un)fortunately (for us), it is short-lived. Bacteria is adapting to the antibiotics that we have and we will be faced once again with the equilibrium of bacterial disease and fatalities due to it. This will bring back equilibrium and thus lower global warming greatly by lowering the amount of humans thus the global footprint.
I am not saying that we don't need curb our habits now as I cannot say for certain that someone won't develop working technology that uses viruses as a control for bacterial infection, but we need to lower birth rates. This needs to come from the government, esp in the UK where being a mother is an income and they pump out children for more money.
Plastic. I can't buy a lettuce without it being wrapped in plastic. I never use straws so the ban on straws hasn't reduced my carbon footprint and it was a moronic thing to single out, why did they focus on straws instead of the real problem, the material it is made out of. It's hard to find an alternative. Why can't I buy soft drinks from a refill fountain at Tesco?
We certainly can make personal changes but until the powers that be ban plastic and stop encouraging/rewarding unethical behaviour (including business, like the businesses that dictate what green changes will be cost-efficient to them) we will continue to see people destroy the planet for their own convenience.
David Attenborough needs to be president of the United States of America or at least prime minister of the United Kingdom
Sir Attenborough..You are about 23 years older than me. I have been hearing about "Zero Population Growth" for over 50 years. I have learned through the years that the lack of food for some people has more to do with troubles with distribution, especially when warlords and dictators are in charge of things. I've also learned that all the people in the world can fit into Texas. I have loved watching you throughout the years when you share what you have discovered all over the world with us, and how you enjoy and appreciate both flora and fauna. Thank you so much for that. I do want you to ask a few more scientists for their findings about the "climate change" conundrum. I have found that the mining of certain ores cause more trouble than the burning or smelting . The Great Barrier Reef does need to be tended to and corrected. The CO2 can't cause too much trouble since CO2 is what trees and other plants love, and it is still less than 0.04 percent of the atmosphere. The planet will be greener with a higher CO2 level. Our problem is mostly with how we dispose of waste and keeping our waterways clean. Also, Uranium mining is bad for us...I don't like Nuclear Power. Have a Happy Birthday this May.
It’s not luck Sir David, it’s that your heart beat so beautifully it gives you your youth. We’ve been given your voice of reason and if only we would all listen. Thank you Sir David
Love him, and everything he stands for.
Everyone should stop using plastic, and make their own small gardens. Plant trees and nurture your environment
I didn't like that he asked him if he was scared of dying, felt that was inappropriate especially given his age. All the other questions were fine though. Sir David is very clever in his responses to controversial topics but if you listen you can get his opinion. What a British legend
So blessed to have this human on the planet.
David Attenborough is like look my dad, is look like my smart teacher or my best friend so I can gain any knowledge from him, what, how and we can do it better.
Really enjoy *
Toyo, Indonesia *
Amazing man. He is a world treasure.
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He is a liar!
@@AndersJensenTH You are a liar,...2
@@AndersJensenTH Carla is right, you are a liar.
Im just wondering whose the interviewer. I just so love how peaceful , calm and smart he is.
Bless this man, now and forever. I really hope we can turn the tide soon, it's so sad that there are those out there who simply deny what they see right in front of them, I hope the young remember this motivation when they come into power. We need action NOW
If our humanity was to end one day, I can easily imagine that the narrator of our drama would have his voice. Thankfully, if our humanity was able to grow and save ourselves, I can also imagine his voice as the narrator.
Sir Attenborough has shown us the rich and diverse beauty of planet earth we all should respect and treasure....thank you 🙂
Wow, Sir Attenborough!
Long live thee!
I am 73 next month, and I would say that he is one of the amazingly wise and knowledgeable people I have ever seen. I wish that more people would take serious notice of what he has been telling us for years. For the good of the generations to come.
The barrier reef in the fifties : no colour camera... the great barrier reef 2020 : there is no colour left to record.
When temperatures rise to 50C people will migrate. When masses migrate it creates conflict and war. Consider the costs of such conflict
That's the thing, the migrations won't be allowed, there'll be zero tolerance for that. And so there will be war and that war will solve our issues once and for all. Some will survive but not on the surface as our weapons make the earth temporarily uninhabitable. Our descendents would be made then and the humans we are now may cease to exist. But our spirit would live in in the creatures we give our abilities to.
David, you are a god in my eyes. I wish that a fraction of our world leaders had a slither of your insight on how this planet really works. You are an old man but your mind is more capable of seeing the truth than anyone I know, let alone our pathetic leadership. To quote a phrase I heard recently; 'Hot water makes potatoes soft, but also makes eggs hard.' What kind of human are you? A potato? or an egg?
I have watched Sir David since I was a kid, he is an inspiration. Thank you/
Sir David Attenborough should be granted a Unesco world heritage status for as humans go he truly is a priceless cultural treasure for mankind!
I absolutely love the natural world the and fascinating magic that is nature. David brings us the awe, wonder and incredible beauty, power and mystery of life. Sir David thank you. I hope we stop waste and understand the preciousness of all life forms on this planet. 💚
I love u david. Thank you for all u have shared. I pray the world will take heed 😚
David is 93 in this interview and looks great, he reminds me of my Nan (1924 - 2015) some of his mannerisms the same both great people, David could run the world I reckon not just be Prime Minister. So full of life still.
WHY don't the powers that be listen to this man? He is so pragmatic and intelligent and at such a great age......truly a great gift to us all.
One of my hero’s could listen to his wisdom all day
This wonderful man presents an amazing irony. The Ultra Right-wing pious Fundamentalist speaks in a judgmental, hateful voice,
while this soft-spoken agnostic gentleman speaks of love and respect for humanity and all life on this planet, which he urges us to help save.
That is the irony. He lives the way Jesus instructed humans to live, and so many of his so-called followers do not. I believe that if there is
a Heaven, it will be populated with people like Sir. David Attenborough. Nice irony.
provide empirical evidence for being 'left wing' as making you correct/right ?
A difficult ending. Life is for living the more you use it the more you have but inevitably there is an end to everything so live life with that in mind. Thank you Sir David Attenborough your life's work is a treasure.
Advice to politicians: "In the end, you have to appeal think is right, do you think it right that we go on destroying the world the way we are." Imagine someone, other than the greens, leading with a bit of backbone.
That's why BREXIT needs to happen so we control what we do and not EUROPE! I don't care about the money! We need to start taking control of our seas and stop them being over fished by other nations, farm the way we see fit, not to European standards where a vegetable has to meet a specific shape and size standard! Reduce our emissions, plastics, fossil fuel use, focus on making a stand for the planet and not for the bank balances!
I think we (the world) are very lucky that Sir David is so very lucky to be in so good physical and mental health in his age.
No it is you David Attenborough! You have brought an appreciate for the planet to a generation of kids that have not been able to experience it themselves.
Also your voice is awesome
David is amazing even at 93 I think he could be PM and has more of an idea about the world than some people, I could listen to David forever.
I love Sir David's answers at the end of the video! To the question how this World came to be, his answer is: "I never believed that Genesis was literally true... As a boy... come on !" Watch the whole thing, but from 20:55 he his just honest...
I thought if you replaced "GOD" with a space exploration fleet, it would be more believable. Scientists setup a lab experiment, set it running and stop by now and then to take readings, collect samples and tweek the components. Then they leave until the next report is due. If they were on a terraforming mission, to create a new world for their race - then rhe "God created this" on the 1st day, this in the 2nd day bit would have ended with extra terrestrial tenants installed.
Young people think about there future were as a lot of older people will say well they will be gone by that point so it won't affect them
Certainly one of my heros in life. Someone who clearly values the process of understanding, and how important it is for making the decisions of life.
A brilliant range of questions too, hats off to the interviewer and his team!
Politicians must have that agenda which will put them get re-elected. They do not have long term considerations. Dont wait for governments. Do your own thing for climate change reversal.
I first saw his very early documentaries, on Indonesia. He was already suave, speaking the local language, Malay, to the natives. Amazing!
Sir David Attenborough is not always on point with recent science, he is usually living in science from his youth, but he has his points from time to time. His comments on current climate change are on point, a 100 %.
How is he not on point with recent science?
The time for talking is long over. Those who do not comply with requirements of others in this highly climate interdependent world must be termed as climate rogue nations. They must be ostracised and boycotted. Just as you would a rogue family member who wreaks havoc on other family members through misdeeds.
I can't get words to describe and thank you sir attenborough for the shear work that u doing..
What a wonderful human being
Thank you for this terrific interview. Sir David is so right ~ money talks but will corporations see this before their immediate greed? What a brilliant and open mind...keeping it real on free speech, humble enough to be undecided on many things - even the source of life...especially organized religion. My hero🙏🏽🌈🌹🇿🇦♥️
If there's a rolemodel in this world,here's the only one worth trying to follow.
His name? Sir David Attenborough!
79 more years should be added to the age of David Attenborough.😃😃🙏 forgive the old man please. O LORD. The Word 'Forgive' is Gold in my translation of English language.
The perfect human does exist.
I hope this interviewer knows how lucky he is! He did quite well too!
The only perfect man is the God-man named Jesus Christ(1 Peter 2:22)
Jesus Christ died on a cross to save us from our sin(Romans 5:8). You and I broke God's law but Jesus paid our fine. Then Jesus rose from the dead, 3 days later, thus defeating death.
If we as a species, could allow one person to live as long as they choose, I choose to let Sir David Attenborough be that human. Just so I don't nor any others ever have to be in a world he is not in and showing us the amazing things about the natural world that still provide him and he infects us with his wonder.
The sad thing is I think he would need many lifetimes to make people understand ✌
The biggest burden to our planet is people are living longer than they are supposed to.
My issue with the kids protests is it’s just organised badly. They are just taking time off school. Maybe these days going to school and getting getting this great grades is all the rage, but people my age and above, this just seems like an excuse to take time off. This would be more impressive if there were several rallies of kids doing this on ongoing weekends. Even for teachers, not having kids in school is an easy day.
Sloppy Toons did you just moan at kids for being unorganized? Insightful mate!
Sir David Attenborough has really changed my views and educated me growing up, I’m 17 years old and I really want to initiate later on in my lifetime with Climate Change.
He's the only person who deserves a knighthood 😬
Sir David Atteborough should give you a clue.
He is the recipient of the most awards given to any Briton. Let that sink in, and also that you were informed by an American.
Perfect example of a great human, if only we all walked the talk he talks - we wouldn't be in this mess
So much wisdom.
Such an admirable, compassionate, humble man 🙏🏼❤️🕊
I cant sleep without his voice everynight
God bless you sweetheart. I will pray you to keep going
Its very simple, if we listen to this man we have a very bright future, if we dont then we wont, IN SIR DAVID WE TRUST!
Great interview!
I cried they whole video. I love him so much
Great questions and very interesting answers from the top man!
An absolutely amazing man..nature's treasure
thx ,for this wonderful interview
I recycle as much as I can and I don't drive so I try to do my bit
Incredible human David Attenborough love all your work and attitude
In the 1960s we talked about over population. I’m proud to say My husband & I took it seriously, we had 2 boys who in turn produced 1 child & that child doesn’t want to bring a child into this degraded world.
What a beautiful hearted human being David Attenborough is!
Love this interview. I would love to find groups in chicago that are as adamant as I am.
Great interview thanks, what a legend!
Edit: just seen a bunch of comments about climate change being wrong.... wow you kids need to get out more! The internet and our planet are not the same thing!
Funny how a man more than 4 times my age does more in a few words then I have in a year. How even tho he’s old, he values the younger generation and the planet which in his time we took for granted. Destroying lives and loosing beauty that’s can never be replaced.
Why do we have dinosaur politicians? Why don't they acknowledge common sense? Do they understand that kindergarten kids have a better understanding of climate change than they do. Thank you David your a living legend.
David Attenborough: The Father of Nature
This man has so much Wisdom