Watch Sir David Attenborough's powerful speech to leaders at COP26

Sir David Attenborough urges everyone to use the climate crisis as an impetus to 'rewrite our story' in a powerful speech at the COP26 climate summit.


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[knlknl]

The fact that you can see so many of these so called "leaders" looking down to their phones in the audience is depressing as hell...

[IamBananas]

he has been one with the environment for such a long time, we're so incredibly lucky to have such a powerful voice on climate change and I hope his words can enact positive outcome

[joshuaharrison]

Our future is as uncertain as that podium!

[IngVasiu]

"We need to not just talk about what we can do, but to do what we can"

[teddyruxspin]

Yet these guys create more carbon than anyone

[stuartedwards]

What an iconic speech, what an iconic “treasure” of a human being…if only our Australian political leaders would take note and take action rather than await “miracles”.

[Fal]

He is the unmistakable VOICE of nature

[songscoops]

All will feel the impact....but not in the way these think..

[zjslozy]

Powerful speech. Would have been perfect if the podium is stable.

[georgecrisan]

Others sleeping, others browsing their phones... what a waste of a beautiful speech, soul and human.

[peterchattelin]

Very powerful and well done Sir David! Hope everybody there is aware off the importance of your message. Thank you for your powerful words..

[StressageDiva]

I hope they listen, and I hope we listen. Thank you for this powerful speech

[RicardoSantos-lnrh]

They all flew in their private jets when they could just have a Zoom call. But hey! you're bad for driving your beat-up car to work everyday.

[derrickengelman]

All talk, these movers and shakers of the planet get together make empty promises and fantastic speeches, clock is ticking on humanity, the planet will recover after we are gone.

[cushyglen]

Attenborough decades jetting around the world. He didn’t mention climate change until 2004. Presumably because he didn’t notice anything was wrong.

[didemaltop]

Thank you for the urgent call to action, the time is now!

[moorsey-]

Need to encourage more countries to turn towards nuclear energy, france is now renewable energies + nuclear energy and is 0% fossil fuels. That's 0% pollution to the air from combustion

[robertproctor]

I hope it's not wasted on them David. I don't know if they have the capacity to understand the issue, or the will to make the necessary changes.

[Frosmad]

Thank you Sir David Attenborough! Very powerful speech!

[stephenhayes]

He has done some of his best work in the last 10 years. With his energy; I wouldn’t be surprised to see many more years from him