I'm A Humanist. I'm Neither One Side

Fundamentally Not To Waste Energy. If We Were All To Reduce Our Demands For Energy, It Would Make An Enormous Amount Of Difference.

I Had A Huge Advantage When I Started 50 Years Ago - My Job Was Secure. I Didn't Have To Promote Myself. These Days There's Far More Pressure To Make A Mark, So The Temptation Is To Make Adventure Television Or Personality Shows. I Hope The More Didactic Approach Won't Be Lost.

Human Beings, Because We're So Clever, Have Removed Every Single One Of Those Population Limiting Factors... So Nothing Controls Our Increase In Numbers Except Our Own Wish. Since I First Started Making Television Programs, The Population Of The World Has Increased Three Times. That's An Extraordinary Notion. Can It Increase Four Times? Can It Increase Five Times? The Earth Is A Finite Size. So A Point Will Eventually Come When We Run Out Of Food, When We Run Out Of Space And When We Will Have Destroyed Most Of The Natural World. So Ought We To Do Something About It Before That Happens?

There's A Small Worm Called Loa Loa Filariasis. This Parasite Can Survive In One Environment Exclusively- Namely, Underneath The Skin And Inside The Eyes Of Human Beings. Children And The Elderly In Tropical Regions (usually The Poorest) Are The Most Widely Affected. A Painful, Slow Death Is Virtually Certain. The Worm Can Actually Live In The Host For 17 Years Before The Host Finally Dies.

I Suppose Happiness Is Something One Enjoys, But I Suspect That Happiness Is Not A State But Rather A Transition.