Sir David Attenborough was asked questions about the planet and nature from an array of his celebrity fans as he spoke to them via video call.
The 94-year-old received burning questions from stars including football icon David Beckham and singer songwriter Billie Eilish in a brand new Netflix video.
Beckham asked: “You have done so much to open all our eyes to the issues facing our planet. Your programmes make us care about the natural world, and what we need to do to protect it.
“You have travelled the globe many times over learning about nature. If you had one message for our children about the future of our world, what would it be?”
A whole host of famous famous asked Sir David Attenborough their burning questions about nature (Image: Netflix/YouTube)
Sir David replied: “To look after the wild world of which we are a part. To care for the animals you see.
“Don’t waste things – don’t waste food or electricity.
“Look after the natural world – it is the most precious thing we have and we are a part of it.”
Singing sensation Billie Eilish asked the legendary broadcaster: “How do you cope with your personal feelings about all the animals that are losing their lives and/or going extinct?
David Beckham asked the broadcasting legend what message he would send to children about the world (Image: Netflix/YouTube)
“How do you actually deal with that as a human being?”
Sir David explained: “You feel desperate.”
He went on to explain how “the most astonishing sight” he’d ever seen in the natural world was when he went diving on the coral reef.
Sadly, when he dived down in almost exactly the same place years afterwards, he saw that the brightly coloured corals were left dead due to the rise in temperatures.
Billie Eilish was among the celebrities who asked David Attenborough a question (Image: Netflix/YouTube)
He explained: “Instead of that pageant of life, it was like a cemetery. All stark white. It had died.”
“It had been killed by the rising temperature that we, humanity, have created.”
David added: “That was a terrible sight, and terrible vision for what we are doing to the natural world, not only in the sea, but on the land and in the air.”
Football legend Marcus Rashford, acting icon Dame Judi Dench, and Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams also asked Sir David a question.
Sex Education stars Asa Butterfield, Kedar Williams-Stirling and Patricia Allison also appeared, as well as Our Planet cameraman Sandesh Kadur, and many more.
The powerful video ended with David saying: “The time has come now when we can’t just have our own selfish interests, when we have to think of other people who are dependent upon what we do.
“That applies to everybody on the planet. We have to work together, we have to have international agreements, we have to work things out.”
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet is available on Netflix, from Sunday 4th October 2020.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
