News / Brèves Zero Growth / Croissance zéro Back to previous selection / Retour à la sélection précédente Her Majesty’s Genocidalist Sir David Attenborough Once Again Raves Against Humanity: Stop Having Large Families 11 September 2013 (EIRNS)—The Guardian reports on the latest anti-humanity ravings of Prince Philip’s personal genocidalist, Sir David Attenborough, who is infamous for have described humans as "a plague on Earth." On this occasion, Attenborough argued that people should stop having large families if they should have families at all and lamented that man has freed himself from Darwinian laws of the survival of the fittest. "We stopped natural selection as soon as we started being able to rear 90-95% of our babies that are born. We are the only species to have put a halt to natural selection, of its own free will, as it were," he lamented to this week’s Radio Times. "Stopping natural selection is not as important, or depressing, as it might sound — because our evolution is now cultural. ... We can inherit a knowledge of computers or television, electronics, airplanes and so on." True to himself, Attenborough lamented that "things are going to get worse ... I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We’re very clever and extremely resourceful — and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I’m sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question. We may reduce in numbers; that would actually be a help, though the chances of it happening within the next century is very small. I should think it’s impossible, in fact." Expressing qualified support for the one-child policy in China, he said: "It’s the degree to which it has been enforced which is terrible, and there’s no question it’s produced all kinds of personal tragedies. There’s no question about that. On the other hand, the Chinese themselves recognize that had they not done so there would be several million more mouths in the world today than there are now. "If you were able to persuade people that it is irresponsible to have large families in this day and age, and if material wealth and material conditions are such that people value their materialistic life and don’t suffer as a consequence, then that’s all to the good. But I’m not particularly optimistic about the future. I think we’re lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse." As we have previously exposed, Attenborough is a member of the genocidal Optimum Population Trust which advocates killing some 3-5 billion people by 2050. On March 10, 2011, Attenborough received the annual prize of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts (RSA), directly from the hand of its president, Prince Philip. With Prince Philip himself chairing the meeting, Attenborough said on that occasion: "We now realize that the disasters that continue increasingly to afflict the natural world have one element that connects them all — the unprecedented increase in the number of human beings on this planet." [DEA]