Climate change moment of crisis has come, warns Attenborough

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>David Attenborough has warned that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the moment of crisis has come” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;life-or-death decisions” must be made to tackle climate change&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The renowned naturalist and broadcaster said action has been put off &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;year after year” but there is no more time to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;prevaricate”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His comments came during an interview with BBC News to launch a year of special coverage by the corporation on the subject of climate change&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Attenborough said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have been putting things off year after year&comma; we have been raising targets and saying &OpenCurlyQuote;Oh well&comma; if do it within the next 20 years…’&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The moment of crisis has come&comma; we can no longer prevaricate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We can’t go on saying &OpenCurlyQuote;but there’s hope’ and leave it to next year – we have to change and we have to change not by appeals to different kinds of optimism but to deliberate&comma; compelling&comma; life-or-death decisions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Attenborough said there has been a huge change in public opinion towards tackling climate change&comma; in particular among young people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 93-year-old veteran TV presenter said this must force governments to take action to tackle climate change&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have to realise that this is not playing games&comma; this is not just having nice little debates and arguments&comma; then coming away with a compromise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>We are refusing to take steps that we know have to be taken&comma; and every year that passes makes those steps more and more difficult to achieve<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is an urgent problem that has to be solved&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And&comma; what is more&comma; we know how to do it – that’s the paradoxical thing&comma; that we are refusing to take steps that we know have to be taken&comma; and every year that passes makes those steps more and more difficult to achieve&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The BBC has launched &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;its most ambitious year” of covering the impact of climate change&comma; which will include broadcasting documentaries&comma; podcasts and debates under the Our Planet Matters banner&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As part of project&comma; BBC News will introduce new programmes across its channels&comma; including Climate Check for BBC Weather&comma; a weekly global climate podcast from BBC World Service&comma; and a show with presenter Simon Reeve exploring the Amazon rainforest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the trailer to his new film&comma; titled David Attenborough&colon; A Life On Our Planet&comma; Mr Attenborough also warned that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;human beings have overrun the world”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads3--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As well as highlighting some of the issues that climate change poses&comma; he also explores some of the potential solutions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed5a6280d19">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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