‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.

If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.

I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population

I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.

Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment

It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.

I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.