Sir David Attenborough has admitted he doesn’t think he has long left to live and “can’t bear” to the future after he’s gone.
The 92-year-old broadcasting legend wants to make the most of his time left but worries he has not done enough to help save the planet he loves so much.
Speaking to The Guardian he said: “I don’t spend time thinking about that because I can’t bear it. I’m just coming up to 93, and so I don’t have many more years around here. I find it difficult to think beyond that because the signs aren’t good.”
He added that not enough work has been done in his lifetime to prevent the devastating effects of climate change.
He said: “My generation is no great example for understanding – we have done terrible things.”
But Sir David praised today’s youth for their activism after school pupils hit the headlines by skipping lessons to demand action to save the planet.
“[Young people] understand the simple discoveries of science about our dependence upon the natural world,”he said.
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“That is the one big reason I have for feeling we are making progress. If we were not making progress with young people, we are done.”
Attenborough, who recently presented a BBC documentary called Climate Change – The Facts, which was viewed by more than three million people, said if we don’t take drastic action within the next decade, we could face irreversible damage to the natural world.
“We have no option, if we want to survive. We have a moral obligation on our shoulders and it would be to our deep eternal shame if we fail to acknowledge that,” he added.
Sir David Attenborough recently released a docu-series on Netlfix, called Our Planet, which painted a bleak picture of increasingly irreversible climate change.
“Right now we are facing our greatest threat in thousands of years. Climate change. At the current rate of warming we risk a devastating future,” he said at its launch.
