Author's Summary
Dame Joanna Lumley sharply critiques humanity's vanity and destructiveness, comparing us to a plague in a recent Radio Times interview, while urging efforts to mend our harm to the planet and each other. (148 characters)
Lumley's Criticism of Humanity
Dame Joanna Lumley, the 79-year-old star of Absolutely Fabulous, has called humans “unbearably vain” and “wretched.”
She described people as excessively self-absorbed and harmful during a Radio Times interview.
Direct Quotes on Human Impact
We have become unbearably vain and destructive and we can’t remember how to stop destroying. If history could be written by anything other than human beings, we would be seen as a plague, unable to stop breeding, to stop destroying, using up, never replacing.
We must endeavor not to be entirely dreadful and to rectify the harm humans have inflicted on one another and the planet.
Advocacy Background
A dedicated supporter of animal rights and environmental causes, Lumley has long pushed for climate action and wildlife protection.
Despite her critiques, she once quipped about being “as vain as a cat” herself.
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