BBC The Selfish Green -- David Attenborough - Richard Dawkins - Richard Leakey - Jane Goodall

Really cool how you can think " Richard and David having a conversation would be dope" then search it, and there it is.

What an amazing panel of people - feels more like I'm at a Jedi Council

Richard Dawkins and David Attenborough together is overwhelming.

Can't recall the last time I watched a civilized and informative discussion online. These are all special people.

This possibly could be the most prestigious pannel discussion ever happened.❤️ Love and respect from India 🙏

Richard Dawkins, David Attenborough and Jane Goodall. What a line-up!

Richard Leakey is very well spoken and intelligent.

When you listen to these four wonderful people, what they’ve done, are doing and hope to do, and then compare them to the people all over the globe that hold the political power, it really is very disturbing,, and probably the most disturbing thing of all is, that we elected them into that position of power............

Dawkins and Attenborough 2 of my favourite personalities.

"there are people of goodwill and altruism in the world, and there are people in important offices running the world, and the two don´t necessarily coincide" - oh yes.

The level of wisdom, compassion and class is off the charts on that panel! Talking about living legends - all national treasures of not only the UK but to the whole world. All pioneers in the field of popular science, conservation and biology/zoology - the very first advocates and communicators in the field - through the magic of television their impact children and adults alike will endure far into the future. In fact I would argue that Goodall, Dawkins and Attenborough are single handedly responsible for taking subjects such as biology from previously being considered an somewhat complex, academic subject, reserved for only the well educated - to a popular subject that captivated so many people around the world, of all ages, getting people interested in science - despite how much of a bookworm one is. That’s the power of television - and they pretty much invested the nature documentaries we know today.

It's never going to happen, because we live in a culture where psychopaths prosper and end up in the most powerful positions. These people simply cannot see or care about even the future of their own children. It is a culture where successfulness is a determination of how wealthy and powerful, in the sense of controlling people and resources, is the highest position of respect. It is not capitalism itself that is the problem, but the rampant dog-eat-dog method, which is exactly the kind of environment where people who don't care about anything but their own gains thrive. We need to have more control over how powerful people can become, because it is always a bad thing to have one person running the show.

Towards the end of the debate I became more optimistic about our plight. Then I saw it was made in 2005 & realised we're in an even more worse state now than we were then, which only goes to show, we will only change things when it is far too late!

Dawkins, Attenborough and Goodall in one panel.... Wow, all I can say is WOW!!!

Rest in peace, Richard Leakey. Wonderful man.

Many thanks to whoever uploaded this. Perhaps the four finest minds in the field all agreeing in far-sighted and thoughtful ways. Particularly inspiring is Jane Goodall's global youth education programme. She's right: the fate of our planet depends on the education and empowerment of our children - however we analyse and present the issues.

The problem isn't poverty... It's greed.

On a panel of immense credentials, Leakey stands out as being the only person who seems to actually understand the issues at hand. Was very impressed with him.

Very good discussion, as you would expect from this distinguished panel. I’m also very impressed with Dimbleby! His questions, input and interventions within this company show a knowledge and intelligence that surpassed my (already high) expectation! Unfortunately though discussions like these won’t make any difference to the outcome – as a species we are just too selfish, indifferent, uneducated, and destructive.

I studied Richard Leakey through human biology unit I took at university. He's the real deal on this topic.