David Attenborough has told the world’s political and business leaders that mankind must work together to protect the planet, telling World Economic Forum (WEF) delegates that “the Garden of Eden is no more” and that mankind must “move beyond guilt or blame” to come up with “practical solutions.”
During his speech Monday in Davos, Switzerland, the 92-year-old broadcaster and naturalist told delegates that mankind has had such a huge impact on the planet over the past century it has changed the geological makeup of Earth. “I am quite literally from another age,” he said. “I was born during the Holocene—the name given to the 12,000-year period of climatic stability that allowed humans to settle, farm, and create civilizations.
