A renowned primatologist has given the cold shoulder to
climate-change deniers.
Dr Jane
Goodall is best known for ground breaking study on chimpanzees. Now, the
85-year-old spends 300 days of the year spreading the message about climate
change.
She says
that she never thought she would be a scientist, but now believes she has a
mission to try and prevent the destruction of our natural world.
She told
Jack Tame what she'd like to do with people who deny the reality of climate
change.
"Let's
go out to the Antarctica where the sea-ice is melting faster than anybody ever
expected, and let's put them on the sea-ice and leave them there and see what
happens."
Goodall
says that those people don't really believe it isn't happening, but that the
facts are "inconvenient" for them.
She is
speaking ahead of her New Zealand later this month, with shows in
Wellington and Auckland.
Despite her
age, she says is still regularly touring because of the dark times the planet
is going through.
"We're
polluting air, water, and land, we're burning fossil fuels. All of this is
leading to climate change, so because I was given a gift of communication, and
people seem to listen, I feel I have to use it."
She says
that she has to "speed up" as she gets older, because there is less
and less time to spread the message.
Goodall,
through her eponymous institute, is aiming to court more young people into her
mission, describing children as the "future" who can save the plane.t
She says
that children tend to love nature, but tragically become distracted by
technology and materialistic matters as they get older.
"Roots
and Shoots is trying to get young people out into nature. If you don't know
about something, you can't care about it, and then you won't save it."
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