Attenborough having a real salt of the earth conversation with the International Monetary Fund

David Attenborough is a “senile racist hypocrite who hates Africans” says man

The veteran environmentalist presenter has been moaning to British audiences about humans overrunning the planet despite having two children himself and the only countries with considerably growing populations being in Africa and Asia

Freditor
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4 min readOct 6, 2020

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Reporting by environment correspondent Shtinshky Rubell

The brother of iconic Jurassic Park actor Richard Attenborough has been accused of being a racist and a hypocrite for publicly stating that humans are overrunning the planet. The accusation has come from a white man so we are treating it with necessary scepticism.

It is almost solely only African and Asian countries that have rapidly growing populations and, in case you weren’t aware, those continents are typically made up of people with skin of various shades of brown and yellow-ish.

In a list of countries by population growth the first white country you come across is Australia in 85th position. It is likely a reasonable assumption to say that the population growth in the preceding 84 African and Asian countries is not due to immigration from Europeans.

Some have also said he has a serious case of “for thee but not for me” when suggesting that we need to control populations yet he has had two children who have also gone onto have families of their own.

Attenborough has also said he regrets not spending more time with his children when they were younger, allegedly indicating that he highly values the family unit yet his desires for population limitation would inevitably deny others of those experiences.

Yet, as everyone knows by now, manmade climate change is the single biggest threat to the planet — no stats required we’ve covered this — so why is anyone daring to question the means suggested by the “wrinkly figurehead of environmentalism” as he’s affectionately known at the BBC.

It seems as though the objections to the British icon’s sentiments are coming from a couple of parties, some who are genuinely concerned about the widespread scourge of racism and others — climate change deniers and probably racists — who can’t handle someone telling them home truths about our impact on the environment.

“We already knew that racism was everywhere but we had hoped that a seemingly kindly old national treasure like Attenborough would have resisted its evil temptations,” said Babby Whitefoot, a Black Lives Matter activist.

“Is Attenborough even aware that the greatest population growths are in black and brown countries and so he’s essentially blaming global warming on POCs?

“Who knows with someone at his age but we will still be aggressively bombarding him as much as we can until he either raises a fist, takes a knee or shares some patronising resources on social media on how people can educate themselves on white privilege.”

Representing the racist, climate change-denying end of the spectrum is Alan Broth who said: “I’m sick of listening to that old prick lecture me! The bloke praised China and said America wasn’t doing enough to protect the environment — what fuckin’ world is he livin’ in?!

“Why would he tell me to stop using a plastic straw when near enough all the plastic in rivers and oceans comes from Africa and Asia? We know it’s a good thing to take care of the environment and I don’t waste shit so can he stop going on at me please?

“And the fact he’s had two kids yet telling me to not have any — what a bastard. If he likes China so much he should probably campaign for a one-child policy,” mentally ranted Broth.

So several questions remain: does he actively have an agenda to stop people of colour breeding or is he just lazily targeting his warning of overpopulation to people who have enough money to be concerned by global warming?

No one really knows but we can confirm people seemed to like him more when he was giving nice commentary over animals tearing each other apart.

Fact check: In an earlier version of this article we published a statement from Alan Broth stating that Attenborough is “an authoritarian hack wanting to make people scared on account of the end of the world so government’s get more power”.

Our independent fact checkers confirmed that Attenborough indeed does want to give governments more power to fight climate change but this is a universal good so the statement is definitely NOT an accurate reflection of reality.

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