David Attenborough
<span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><div><p style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Britain's Prince William interviewed famed broadcaster <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/david-attenborough" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">David Attenborough</a> on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Switzerland.</p><p style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During the sit-down, the 92-year-old naturalist advised the world leaders and business elite gathered in Davos this week that we must respect and protect the natural world, adding that the future of its survival—as well as humanity's survival—is in our hands.</p><p style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We can wreck it with ease," Attenborough said. "We can wreck it without even knowing we are doing it. And if we wreck the natural world, in the end, we wreck ourselves."</p><p style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</p></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">English documentary filmmaker and naturalist David Attenborough, whose series </span><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/david-attenborough-blue-planet-ii-2490636664.html" style="color: rgb(82, 149, 70); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Blue Planet II</a><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> began in October, spoke out several times on plastic pollution in 2017. In September, Attenborough told </span><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/community/greenpeace/" target="self" style="color: rgb(82, 149, 70); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Greenpeace</a><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of the "heartbreaking" footage he recorded of mother birds feeding their babies plastic, an iconic moment for him that pushed him to speak up about </span><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/plastics" target="self" style="color: rgb(82, 149, 70); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">plastic pollution</a><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in oceans., and tell Trump to </span><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/david-attenborough-plastics-2514828090.html" style="color: rgb(82, 149, 70); text-decoration-line: none; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">reconsider his withdrawal</a><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> from the Paris agreement. He emphasized that "never before have we been so aware of what we are doing to our planet—and never before have we had such power to do something about it."</span></div>