“The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.”
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It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
