David Attenborough has claimed that humanity needs to learn to show more restraint for the good of the natural world. Speaking ahead of the broadcast of Planet Earth III, a new instalment of his landmark natural history series, he talked about how one episode focuses on chimpanzees whose forest homes have been encircled by human settlements.
“The huge problem is the way we have gobbled up space as though it belongs to us and nobody else,” said Attenborough. “And the notion that you should actually have to restrain yourself in order to accommodate the natural world is not one which everybody feels. We need to persuade people that it’s quite a selfish thing to do.”
