The More You Go On,

Nothing In The Natural World Makes Sense - Except When Seen In The Light Of Evolution

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.

Sentimentalising Is Anathema, As Far As I Am Concerned. It Leads You Into Ethical Problems About Violence And Killing And Eating Meat. The Whole World Becomes Topsy-survy If You Impose Moralities That Were Evolved Within Human Society On What A Blowfly Or What A Parasite Does... There Are Lots Of Emotions You Can Deduce From An Animal's Behaviour That Are Correct, But When You Start Saying It's Feeling Guilty Or Thinking Or A Loved One Or Mourning, You Must Be Very Careful Of Those Feelings.

You've Got To Be Fairly Solemn [about The Environment]. I Mean The Mere Notion That There Are Three Times As Many People On Earth As There Were When I Started Making Television. How Can The Earth Accommodate Them? When People, Including Politicians, Set Their Faces Against Looking At The Consequences-it's Just Unbelievable That Anyone Could Ignore It.

The Only Acceptable Way To Solve Ecological Problems Is If You Can Persuade People To Have Fewer Children. In The Victorian Times, There Were Families Of 15 Children. Someone Like Edward Lear, He Was The Last Of 21 Children. And So What We Have To Think About Is Offering People The Alternative Choice. And In The West, That's What's Happening. The Birth Rate Has Been Dropping Steadily And Still Is. I'm Wanting Human Beings To Be Better Off So They Don't View Children As An Insurance For The Future.