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SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH has urged people to “stop waste of any kind”, saying the world is precious and should be “celebrated and cherished”.
The broadcaster and naturalist warned humans have a “last chance” to change their behaviour and save the planet, as he urged politicians to address “the biggest problem humanity has ever faced”.
In an interview on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Attenborough (93) said it will be the younger generation who will have to make changes because “they will be able to see the consequences of what they do”.
My lot are dying off and we are the ones that caused the problem.
He suggested people should see the world and their time in it as precious, saying “that’s the fundamental attitude”.
“The world is not a bowl of fruit in which we can just take what we wish. We are part of it and if we destroy it we destroy ourselves,” he warned.
Asked what people can do to help protect the planet, Attenborough said: “Stop waste. Stop waste of any kind. Stop wasting power, stop wasting food, stop wasting plastic. Don’t waste, this is a precious world. Celebrate and cherish.”
He went on to say that his message to world leaders would be: “This is the last chance. There are short-term problems and long-term problems.
A politician is tempted to deal with short-term problems all the time and neglect long-term problems. This is not only a long-term problem it is the biggest problem humanity has faced. Ever.
“Please examine it and please respond.”
Attenborough has worked with Netflix to produce an upcoming documentary called A Life On Our Planet which looks at the challenges facing Earth and what can be done to address them.
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Ex staff who use insider information should be jailed as the criminals they are
Much, much easier said than done in the real world. Near impossible in Ireland. Sure we couldn’t even manage convictions against the Anglo boys who pretty much admitted market manipulation.
Will they get locked up I guess not !
Have not being reading about those who are trying to hide assets being prosecuted?
Considering most of these developers have top financial and legal advisors and considering they had very little to gain by informing Nama about the full extent of their assets , you would have to wonder what the full amount of assets salted away by developers was , easily a multiple of the 800million anyway I’ve no doubt
But how many who owe Nama money, are still buying property off Nama ? It’s all a game…
In fact they should make Nama: the board game. The Go to Jail card would be a hundred Euro note.
Figure should be ten fold.
They have “clawed back ” from people who did not put it beyond reach…
I’m suprised they don’t have them sign an agreement to barring them using the information.
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