June 9, 2014

a hope in hell


Alan Root comments at the 1967 premier of The Enchanted Isles for the British series Survival
Q: "Are you trying to save wildlife or merely film it?"
 A: "My job is to show what is there, and not to spoil it by having a presenter for the last five minutes. If we had a film about North America before the white man came... would you want to hear an Indian chief or white man talking, or would you just want to have an hour to see what it was like?" 
"I don't think our environment has a hope in hell. I don't think mankind is smart enough to do anything about it. And Africa is going faster than anything."

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