Name: 'There's a danger of losing our tenure on this planet' | BBC Ideas
Uploaded: 2021-08-12T19:45:16.000Z
Duration: 3 min
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Gerund

There is a real danger of losing our tenure on this planet altogether.

To-infinitive

We've got to care about this matter of global warming

During my lifetime the big change that's happened to the world

has been the development of machines and devices and inventions.

to taking an interest in the environment.

the odds against it run into countless billions-to-one against.

I tend to think of the Earth as alive in a sense

like an animal or a plant or any other living thing.

when more carbon dioxide is put in the air?

where no life on it of our kind will be possible.

in plants and animals and things that grow naturally.

Not worry too much at all about schooling.

The three R's yes, they're very important, but all the other stuff

but I think it needs the right sort of politics

to change people's thinking about these things

and I'd like to see these youngsters using their energies

rather than looking for some techy answer

because I don't think the answer's going to come that way.

I think we have all the things needed to stop global warming