Veteran broadcaster blamed too many people and not enough land. Suggested sending flour bags to under-developed countries was pointless.
Sending food aid to Africa to solve the famine crisis is ‘barmy’, Sir David Attenborough said last night.
The veteran broadcaster blamed too many people and not enough land for Africa’s food problem and suggested sending flour bags to under-developed countries was pointless.
Giving the example of famines in Ethiopia, Sir David, 87, said: ‘They’re about too many people for a too little piece of land. That’s what it’s about. And we are blinding ourselves.
‘We say, “get the United Nations to send them bags of ?our”. That’s barmy.’
Sir David said that population control was a ‘huge area of concern’, adding that the world was ‘heading for disaster unless we do something’.
He admitted the issues had ‘huge sensitivities’ but insisted it was important to ‘just keep on about it’.
He told the Daily Telegraph that if humans did not act soon, the ‘natural world will do something’.
Sir David said it was irresponsible to have a large family in today’s overcrowded world and that humans were a ‘plague on the Earth’.
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