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Sending food to Africa to solve famine is barmy, says Sir David Attenborough as he blames overcrowding for crisis

Veteran broadcaster blamed too many people and not enough land
Suggested sending flour bags to under-developed countries was pointless

By Larisa Brown

PUBLISHED: 01:47, 18 September 2013 | UPDATED: 01:48, 18 September 2013

The veteran broadcaster blamed too many people and not enough land for Africa�s food problem

The veteran broadcaster blamed too many people and not enough land for Africa�s food problem

Sending food aid to Africa to solve the famine crisis is �barmy�, Sir David Attenborough said last night.

The veteran broadcaster blamed too many people and not enough land for Africa�s food problem and suggested sending flour bags to under-developed countries was pointless.

Giving the example of famines in Ethiopia, Sir David, 87, said: �They�re about too many people for a too little piece of land. That�s what it�s about. And we are blinding ourselves.

�We say, �get the United Nations to send them bags of ﬂour�. That�s barmy.�

Sir David said that population control was a �huge area of concern�, adding that the world was �heading for disaster unless we do something�.

He admitted the issues had �huge sensitivities� but insisted it was important to �just keep on about it�.

He told the Daily Telegraph that if humans did not act soon, the �natural world will do something�.

Sir David said it was irresponsible to have a large family in today�s overcrowded world and that humans were a �plague on the Earth�.

The naturalist also warned that future generations faced less happy and healthy lives as resources became increasingly stretched and natural wonders disappeared.

He admitted �to have a European telling Africans that they shan�t have children is not the way to go around things�, but added: �We are heading for disaster unless we do something.

�And if we don�t do something, the natural world will do something.

how does that saying go...? give a man a fish he will eat for a day...teach a man to fish and he will breed you out of house and home and we gave him the money and food to do it.

There was no African food problems under Colonialism, but once that ended and the White farmers chased away or eaten the Africans realized that they do not know how to farm but they know how to beg and sneek into the UK for more of the same.