COP26: Sir David Attenborough urges world leaders to 'rewrite our story'

Sir David Attenborough has called on the COP26 summit in Glasgow to kickstart 'a wonderful recovery' from climate change.

The broadcaster urged world leaders to act to reduce the level of carbon in the atmosphere.

[Ortim]

davis bellamy was right in 2003 when he refered the climate crisis as "poppycock" so they completely cancelled him

[jason]

Yeah the leaders are flying in, in their electric private jets.

[Aisatsana]

Sagan-
There's two kinds of dangers. One is what I just talked about. That we've arranged a society based on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. I mean, who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it? And the second reason that I'm worried about this is that science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan political or religious who comes ambling along. It's a thing that Jefferson laid great stress on. It wasn't enough, he said, to enshrine some rights in a Constitution or a Bill of Rights. The people had to be educated, and they had to practice their skepticism and their education. Oherwise we don't run the government—the government runs us.

[FutureDictator]

there were 400 private jets to the COP summit, let that sink in.

[wetincornwall]

Bet my carbon footprint is less than yours David.

[ronjohnson]

This bloke jets all over the world another hypocrite.

[williamkennedy]

We are being led into the abyss by such fools, when will we hear the other side f the argument .

[danielthomas]

Why do these so-called world leaders get to rewrite our story? Let the people join in.
I wouldn't trust this batch of 'leaders' to rewrite a nursery rhyme.

[stringer-ikpc]

This man has 'single handedly' damaged the planet more than anyone on here watching this. He's flown around the world thousands of times making films and earned himself millions. Bollocks to him and the rest of the hypocrites.

[gregoryfox]

He never mentioned all the animals he killed for exhibits in museums and galleries over the years

[mooxbleach]

He’s made a fortune flying all over the world

[emmettoliver]

The planet is doing what it's done since it's beginning.. it's changing, evolving.. if we can't handle that we need to go

[bjoerndippon]

This speech will be remembered. Unfortunately no-one seems to remember, that Sir David Attenborough already alerted years ago. But maybe we must reach the bottom of the barrel first to realize that he was right all along and that now it's too late. We'll wish that Corona would have stayed the only problem when we have to face the climate crash into our faces...

[dovidell]

from hero to zero, Sir Dave, give it a break mate !!

[surality]

Print millions of hardback books on the subject of climate change, that's the Bill and Greta solution to climate change.

[omrik]

That man is a global treasure!!!
It's up to all of us to do something... Or we are all screwed. It's a fact.

[musaxcoco]

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
-George Orwell

[bhew]

Such a nice speech even Biden could stay awake!

[carlwilliams]

The ignorance of so many people leaves me feeling hopeless for the future and future generations! 💔🌍

[jamesellwood]

Those people will only be remembered as the greedy generation who's primary focus is money and