David Attenborough Savages Scott Morrison With A Gentle, British Version Of The Mic Drop

Of all the people that you’d never want to disappoint, British environmentalist and TV presenter David Attenborough is probably right at the top of that list.

After all, Attenborough is the kindly grandfather of the environmental movement; a stately and gentle British legend who can so casually pontificate on a gorilla just going ham on a hill of ants it’s like he’s discussing the weather. Hurting such a man would be like hurting an elderly labrador.

Well, guess what, thanks to our Prime Minister Scott Morrison, that’s exactly what Australians have done: hurt David Attenborough. In an interview with triple j’s Hack, the environmentalist went to town on our treatment of our natural resources, slamming our PM and our complicity with him.

“You are the keepers of an extraordinary section of the surface of this planet, including the Barrier Reef, and what you say, what you do, really, really matters,” Attenborough said, as reported by the ABC.

“And then you suddenly say, ‘No it doesn’t matter … It doesn’t matter how much coal we burn … We don’t give a damn what it does to the rest of the world.'”

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Attenborough can see exactly where this leads, and it’s in nothing less than total civilisational collapse. “The world is going to be running short of food, seriously short of food,” the presenter said. “The world is sick, we really have to do things about it. And there’s no more time for argument.”

As to exactly why politicians like Morrison pander to the coal lobby, Attenborough reckons it comes down to the popularity game, arguing that politicians have to do what they think the public believe is right.

Though, such a strategy is dangerously short term, for no other reason than the public — and particularly young people — are cottoning onto it.