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Sir David Attenborough (pictured last month) still has 'hope' for the future of the planet

Sir David Attenborough has insisted he still has 'hope' for the future of the planet - but urged humans to turn their gaze away from themselves.

The Blue Planet and Dynasties narrator was asked whether society would exist on Earth in just a few hundred years.

'I don't think it will be uninhabitable,' the 92-year-old naturalist and broadcaster tells The Arts Hour on BBC radio. 'Almost certainly it won't be as rich as it was. The question is, how poor will it be. '

Sir David tells the World Service show to be broadcast in nine days' time: 'Human beings are the most adaptable organism that has ever appeared on the planet and is extraordinarily resourceful, and very good at looking after itself.

'If it turns its attentions to looking after other things as well, which it is equally good at, if it bothers to do so, then there is hope.'

But he adds: 'I think it's unlikely that my great grandchildren will ever see what I was able to see when I was wondering around the Earth in Borneo or wherever else 50 years ago.'

Sir David is pictured with gorillas in Rwanda while making the 1979 documentary Life on Earth

Sir David, pictured in 1956 with bear cub Benjamin which he brought back from Borneo, said: 'I think it's unlikely that my great grandchildren will ever see what I was able to see when I was wondering around the Earth in Borneo or wherever else 50 years ago'

The much-loved broadcaster said that children's innate curiosity was a 'precious treasure'.

'There is not a child born that, if it sees a snail for the first time crawling up a window pane, doesn't think, what on earth is that? How does it stick on? What does it feed on? Look at the underside... What is it doing?

'Of course every child born is born with a curiosity for the natural world. If you lose that thing that you started off with, you've lost really one of the most precious treasures you have. Your life is the poorer.'

And he says: 'The paradox is, that we may be the most overcrowded people that have ever lived in history but in fact we get a wider view of the world than ever before. The world now on television is viewed all the time.'

The Arts Hour with Sir David Attenborough airs on January 5 at 8pm on the BBC World Service.

How modern abbreviations leave Sir David Attenborough 'baffled'

He has explained some of the natural world's greatest wonders but there is one thing that leaves Sir David Attenborough 'baffled' - modern abbreviations.

The veteran broadcaster, 92, says he has to ask the younger generations of his family to make sense of today's language.

'I can't think in the way that people who use tablets do, I can't use that kind of language, I can't use that kind of spelling ... ', he tells The Arts Hour.

'The speed at which they do it, the abbreviations they use.

'I have to go and ask my daughter, or my granddaughters ... what these extraordinary three or four letter abbreviations mean.'

And he tells the BBC World Service show: '(Young people) certainly have a different way of appreciating stories which baffle elderly people. I am extremely antique you know, I'm in my nineties.'

The Blue Planet and Dynasties narrator also gives an insight into how he prepares for his broadcasts.

'It would be shameful if there wasn't (an element of performance), if you thought you were mumbling to yourself,' he says.

'On an hour's film, I might spend a week getting the words right because they have to be just enough.

'Nothing more infuriating than a commentary which tells you what you can already see, and you don't want to use adjectives, glorious and wonderful and so on, telling people what to think ...

'Commentary writing takes a lot of care, by the time you've done it, you ought to know it so well that you can almost do it with your eyes shut.'

He also reveals how he used to recruit trainees when he was working as a producer.

'We would have a formal conversation then we would go down to the bar ... and have a drink and I would try and encourage them to tell me a funny story,' he says.

'If he couldn't tell me a funny story and make me laugh or at least a story that would hold my attention, then no good ... If you don't know how to tell a story then you shouldn't be making a film.' 

 

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Sir David Attenborough (pictured last month) still has ‘hope’ for the future of the planet

Sir David Attenborough has insisted he still has ‘hope’ for the future of the planet – but urged humans to turn their gaze away from themselves.
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