He's my hero Jim. I've actually met him at a book signing in Norwich some years ago. He was absolutely charming, polite and kind to everyone in the queue and never flagged.

It seems to me we've just rampaged all over Earth in every corner we could discover and grabbed greedily everything it has to offer, mostly for financial gain. We've ruined such a lot of it, with no care or regret. It's like letting loose a large troop of chimpanzees in Tesco's for a week.

And now we have no excuse for continuing to do so, as it's been made convincingly clear by scientists and ecologists that we're wrecking the place. But only small changes have been made so far, and it's too little too late in my view.