I Would Love To Go And See

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.

Apart From Anything Else, I Am Designed By Evolution, Like We All Are: If We See A Little Thing Like That, Big Eyes, Tiny Nose, We Go 'aaah'. That's What Evolution Does. We Are Programmed To Do That. So To Find Babies The Most Amazing, Isn't Surprising, I Don't Think.

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?

I Suspect That Happiness Is Not A State But Rather A Transition.

Nothing In The Natural World Makes Sense - Except When Seen In The Light Of Evolution