Saving Planet Earth: Sir David Attenborough Praises Jacinda Ardern’s Policies

Sir David Attenborough has pointed out that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s policies are fundamental in the fight for the survival of the planet.

In an article for the Daily Mail, the British broadcaster and natural historian listed the things humanity must do to save the planet and praised Ardern.

Attenborough says humanity faces an “unprecedented challenge” and must act quickly to save the planet.

In the essay, he pointed to the urgency of taking action and called on governments to follow in Ardern’s footsteps to change their measure of economic success.

“As I warned last week, we are living in the shadow of a disaster, and it is one of our own culprits,” he wrote, adding that we are “on the brink of destruction.”

“By viewing Earth as our planet, run by humanity for humanity, we have already done incalculable damage.

He continued: “In 2019, New Zealand took the bold step of formally reducing GDP as its main measure of economic success and created its own index based on its most pressing national concerns.

“In this one act, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern shifted her country’s priorities from pure growth to something that better reflects the aspirations many of us have.”

Asking other governments to follow Ardern’s example, Attenborough also offered advice to people on the changes they can make in their daily lives to help in the fight for the survival of humanity.

“We are polluting our air, draining our rivers, warming the oceans and making them more acidic. We have depleted the ozone layer and caused potentially disastrous climate change,” he wrote.

“Humanity, in other words, has set a course for a devastating future, not just for the natural world but for itself. And if we continue, we will risk, like the people who once lived in the shadow of Chernobyl, of be sleepwalking catastrophe. “

“What we face today is nothing less than the collapse of the living world. However, there is still time to change course, to find a better way to live.”

Attenborough says that “respect for biodiversity” should be at the center of this global effort.

He believes that what got us to this point was “our hunger for perpetual economic growth” and calls on nations to abandon their focus on GDP.

In addition to a call to prioritize people over profit, the natural historian has also called on people to reduce their meat consumption, eliminate fossil fuels, leave more fish in the ocean and have fewer babies to curb overpopulation.

His essay ended with a message of hope that as disaster approaches, there is still time to turn things around and avoid catastrophe, but only if we act now.

“Homo sapiens, the wise human, must now learn from his mistakes and live up to his name. Those of us who live today have the formidable task of ensuring that our species does. We must not lose hope.

“We can still make amends, change direction, and become a species in harmony with nature again. All we need is the will,” he wrote.