Well, it was kind of Sir David Attenborough to grant an interview to Prince William at Davos (by way of compensation for the absence of presidents Macron, Trump and Putin plus the PM) to discuss environmentalism and show a clip from his latest Netflix series, displaying an entire chunk of glacier the size of a skyscraper slipping into the Arctic. He’s a class act, Sir David, and the demeanour of the Prince was altogether respectful, as you’d expect from someone who has called Sir David in the past ‘a national treasure’ and ‘the single most important impact in my conservation thinking’. So, we got some nice recollections from the great man about the happy days of broadcasting in the fifties when you just had to show the troops a pangolin to have them marvelling. The direct pitch, though, was at the Davos crowd, being the capitalists with the power to actually change things:
All dandy, though Prince William is not, really, up there with the Attenboroughs as an interviewer; the tone was mainly deferential with the odd awkward quip.
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