David Attenborough warns of ‘social unrest’ due to climate change

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WR2
July 10, 2019 10:00 pm

It’s one thing to fight actual existential threats to humanity, but these people are only interested in 1) feeling smug and self righteous, 2) implementing socialism, 3) crony capitalism, and 4) wreaking havoc on society. Prove me wrong.

Cyril Wentzel
Reply to  WR2
July 11, 2019 12:17 am

Let’s change point 3) into “cronyism”, shall we?
There is already so much confusion over what capitalism essentially is. Cronyism is in many respects opposite, since it ultimately builds on coercive state-power.

Alan in Kansas
July 10, 2019 10:37 pm

Emergency! Climate Change is causing an increase in….Alzheimer’s! At least it would seem so in this video clip.

Reply to  Alan in Kansas
July 11, 2019 1:08 am

I suppose the world must seem warmer when you’ve just been wheeled out from your cryogenic chamber!

Reply to  Alan in Kansas
July 12, 2019 11:54 am

If anyone wanted proof that working for the Bollox broadcasting parasitic oscillation company brought on senile dementia, look no further than those staring golf ball eyes every few seconds, – followed by the phrase “I’m alright”.

Maybe they sat his bum on the anode of one of their microwave transmitters a bit too long and cooked what little grey matter there was still lurking trying to control Sir R A’s largely disconnected big mouth.

All we need now is to have him & Teflon Tony put in the House of Lords,- a perfect new edition of “spitting image”.

John Robertson
July 10, 2019 10:46 pm

Like a stopped ,analogue ,clock Sir David is right.
There will be social unrest because of Climate Change.
When the pendulum swings on this mass hysteria,people will get even uglier.
Having been browbeat about “The Sky is Falling” for decades and robbed,manipulated and abused by the most odious of humans, that being righteous virtue signallers,the general population is going to be less than kind,when they see the scam.
Scams all have a life cycle and this Cult of Calamitous Climate is getting old.
The payback in this one is going to be brutal,as we have been betrayed by our governments as they attempted to gain power and make taxing air normal.
The bureaus will suffer and the more they moan the greater the cutting and burning.
For most government “watchdogs” exist to prevent such abuses of the citizen, seeing how hopelessly they have failed and how easily they have been subverted into provoking mass hysteria in the public, means there is no reason to continue their existence.

A career civil service has their fingerprints all over CAGW/CC.
When that crashes and burns they go with it.
The behaviour of these agencies in the aftermath of the CRU emails,showed all whose side these parasites are on.

CAGW is evidence that government has declared war on the citizen.
Hard to digest but there it is.

DocSiders
Reply to  John Robertson
July 11, 2019 2:29 am

Career Civil Service is the closest thing to immorality possible. CC jobs never go away. In many Agencies there are Bureaus that duplicate efforts and others that work at cross purposes.

Once a government program exists there will be supporters (or voting blocks) that lobby hard for its continuation and/or expansion…but never an equally concentrated effort to retire that program.

The support naturally gets concentrated by the efforts of beneficiaries, and the opposition is dilute since each small program is just another 0.001% of overall government waste.

July 10, 2019 11:57 pm

“David Attenborough warns of ‘social unrest’ due to climate change”
I know, he heard from his pet cheetah that the chimpanzees in London Zoo are demanding air conditioning!

Seriously , that suitably unqualified expert Harrabin – the BBC’s so called Environmental Analyst, whatever that is, referred to Attenborough as a Climate Scientist. That’s how relevant and
credible the BBC’s biased reporting of Climate Change is, and how much Attenborough should be believed!

July 11, 2019 12:05 am

Attenborough is an idiot and I’m glad to see that someone else recognises the BBC as the Bias Bullshit Corporation.

Steve Borodin
July 11, 2019 12:16 am

How can we persuade the electorate?

Simple Mr A, by providing evidence instead of endless appeals to authority, fake graphs and simple arrogance.

Rod Evans
July 11, 2019 12:17 am

The thing to remember is David Attenborough is put forward as the voice of the BBC he is no scientist he is one of the dinosaurs from the days when the BBC had a reputation for balanced output, sadly long gone. Attenborough, is a shrewd operator. He has moved with the changing nature of the BBC. Unlike the BBCs own real scientist, David Bellamy who was sacked when he refused to promote the false human induced global warming story, Attenborough could see he had to get on board the new BBC agenda or be gone.
So here we are, a man in his 90s who has spoken to camera longer than most, knows little of the science involved in global weather, and even less about global climate. He is the voice and face of the BBC’s false alarmism. It is sad he put career/income ahead of integrity, or maybe he is just too dim to know he is being used.
A candidate for the BBC award, British Brainwashing Champion….

Marv
Reply to  Rod Evans
July 11, 2019 1:20 pm

“Attenborough, is a shrewd operator.”

He is a survivalist.

“He has moved with the changing nature of the BBC. ”

A survivalist will do what he has to do in order to survive.

July 11, 2019 12:29 am

Most people who read this blog would agree with your position; most people who watch Blue Planet etc would agree with Attenborough, and of course Saint Greta T and (less so) Extinction Rebellion. They all love the planet and are terrified it is going to die … so they aren’t having children. Most of these people live in the western world which has an extremely low replacement birthrate any way. How do we reach the uncommitted in the west and the indifferent elsewhere; none of whom read this blog?

Sasha
July 11, 2019 12:33 am

David Attenborough says price of plane tickets should go UP “to save the environment”
Multi-millionaire Attenborough confessed that “I’m afraid such a hike would hit poorer families the hardest.”
How, exactly, pricing poorer people out of flying will “save the environment” was never explained.
I wonder how does David Attenborough and his crew and the massive weight of all their equipment get to all the countries to make his programmes then travel all over them? Does he walk? swim? row? sail? bicycle?
I’ll bet he has the carbon footprint of a small country, the hypocrite.

Rod Evans
Reply to  Sasha
July 11, 2019 10:34 am

Attenborough is so out of touch with the lives of poor families. Only someone on expenses and able to come and go as he pleases, paid for by the licence fee payers, which (for now) is not him, by the way.
When he claims, the poorer families will suffer most from a hike in airfares, he has no idea how offensive that is to those poorer families who can’t afford to even dream of flying.
The BBC and its whole ethos of paying presenters £million/yr to just sit and speak for a few minutes each week, has got to stop.

July 11, 2019 1:01 am

All that time in airplanes flying all over the world with a carbon foot print the size of a small country … I think all the cosmic ray radiation he’s been exposed to has fried his brain.

Sky King
July 11, 2019 1:08 am

Pompous vacuous British twit.

Reply to  Sky King
July 11, 2019 6:37 am

Pompous seems too weak. More like delusions of Godhood.

July 11, 2019 1:49 am

Just wait until the “people” realise that they have been lied to and impoverished then we will see real social unrest on the streets.

4TimesAYear
July 11, 2019 3:42 am

A lot of us can’t afford to cut back any more. Only those living high on the hog can afford to cut back. But they won’t.

Patrick MJD
Reply to  4TimesAYear
July 11, 2019 4:37 am

There will come a time when ordinary people won’t have the choice because it won’t be a option to cut back, the cut backs will already have been made for us.

John
July 11, 2019 4:54 am

The unrest is due to the charlatans stirring the pot.

Bruce Cobb
July 11, 2019 5:03 am

What a maroon. And hypocrite. And liar.

ResourceGuy
July 11, 2019 5:47 am

Does he own a drone and is it safe to fly into Heathrow these days?

July 11, 2019 6:22 am

Attenborough, one of Optimum Population Trust, OPT’s leading promoters, received the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts prize on March 10, 2011, from Prince Philip, the RSA president.

With Philip at his side, Attenborough stated:

“We now realize that the disasters that continue increasingly to afflict the natural world have one element that connects them all—the unprecedented increase in the number of human beings on this planet,” as Malthus warned. But no one proposes the necessary measures to curb human population, which makes every problem worse. “Why this strange silence? … There seems to be some bizarre taboo around the subject…. There are over 100 countries whose combinations of numbers and affluence have already pushed them past the sustainable level…. It is tragic that the only current population policies in developed countries are, perversely, attempting to increase their birth rate, in order to look after the growing number of old people. The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on, ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.”

It is very odd that comments studiously avoid this obvious, in your face fostering of just plain genocide. The UN adopted OPT’s target of 4 billion, and OPT “estimated” the UK population should be 18 million, not 61 million.

toorightmate
July 11, 2019 6:52 am

Gee. I hope climate change does not cause social unrest as there has never been any social unrest in the history of mankind to date.

SeanC
July 11, 2019 9:35 am

Create a beast called Anthropogenic Climate Change, knowing full well that our Sun has entered a phase shift. No better time to trot out the AGW beast to claim all things natural. I say old boy: here’s to strangling the peasants in taxes and lowering the price of tea!

ResourceGuy
July 11, 2019 11:20 am

Add this to the clinical list of competency for evaluating the elderly.

-can they feed themselves
-can they dress themselves
-do they engage in frequent climate change scare antics

ResourceGuy
July 11, 2019 11:32 am

Wildlife in Africa and possible the rain forests will be gone by the time the climate crusades are re-evaluated to see what all happened during the one dimensional policy parade on CO2.

Matt G
July 11, 2019 11:50 am

David Attenborough has to support alarmist climate change or the BBC would fire him like they did with others. The BBC only employ alarmists or people that share their lefty agenda brain washing corporation.

I thought the left wanted equality? Only thing they have been supporting is wasted money on things that would be better spent on achieving this goal, but instead creating a greater divide whether done intentionally or not.

Higher energy prices from the climate scare are causing increasing number of people towards poverty, struggling to live and relying on food banks. There is your “social unrest” from climate change caused by ignorance.

tom0mason
July 11, 2019 2:12 pm

Addledborough is just another Malthusian, ‘up-his-own-inane-arse’, wannabe elitist who wishes a large section of the human population dead. Just a soft spoken fascist.

Quotes –

“We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now,” he told the Radio Times.

“Attempting to solve famine in Africa by simply sending flour bags is “barmy””, Sir David Attenborough has said

“We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now,” he told the Radio Times.

Why anyone considers his anti-human ideas worthy or sane should reconsider, basically he says nature (and ‘we’ are all part of it) can not keep up with changes that humanity does. This is the BIG LIE! Nature is far more resilient than this over-publicized dork believes and voices.
I wish he would go and talk to a polar bear in it’s natural habitat, and not just voice over the script he’s given in the comfort of an air-conditioned studio.

July 11, 2019 3:19 pm

Sir David told the Glastonbury festival crowd how excellent it was that the festival organizers had chosen to go plastic-free. The photos in this following report are marvelously entertaining…

At least they picked their tents up! Campers leave pockmarked field after Glastonbury ends as droves begin clean-up of sea of bottles and food waste despite festival going ‘plastic-free’ (Daily Mail, 1 July)

In his speech to thousands of fans from the Pyramid Stage, Sir David said: ‘There was one sequence in Blue Planet II which everyone seems to remember.

‘It is one in which we showed what plastic has done to the creatures that live in the ocean. It had an extraordinary effect and now this great festival has gone plastic-free.’

…resulting in a vast sea of plastic garbage.

CLIVE bOND
July 12, 2019 4:04 am

Wrong. The air in contact with the ocean, UV long wave radiation, does not penetrate water. The ocean is warmed by direct sunlight, short wave radiation, down to 100 metres. It’s got NOTHING to do with carbon dioxide.