"It's not a sixth mass extinction event that we're precipitating, it's a mass extermination event." Chris Packham speaks to New Scientist about his new series, Earth, a five-part documentary on BBC Two. Watch the full interview:

@ChrisGPackham @BBCTwo He's right. Extermination is the correct term. It's what we are doing to wildlife.

@ChrisGPackham @BBCTwo Many say they like "nature", drinking "clean water", eating fresh food and breathing "clean air". Societies, made up of those same people, live as though money/property/economies/businesses/jobs are the real, important, issues. Humans make poor decisions about almost everything.

@ChrisGPackham @BBCTwo fearmongering drives viewership. Old MSM trick.

@ChrisGPackham @BBCTwo The Atheist position, after all, and the proposition of a Communist future as the Salvation. The Earth is safe, Carbon is Life, The Sun is in perfect alignment going thru cycles... it will be OK... the Sky is not falling, Chicken Little.

@ChrisGPackham @BBCTwo Yet we have 7 billion humans and counting. The oddest mass extinction ever. Oh well, guess we should all...

@ChrisGPackham @BBCTwo #ChrisPackham is a #polemicist, not a #scientist.

@ChrisGPackham @BBCTwo They all want a slice of the riches he got.

@ChrisGPackham @BBCTwo Same sh1t different year. 🥱

@ChrisGPackham @BBCTwo Chris Packham makes the slugs in my garden appear intelligent and well educated.

@ChrisGPackham @BBCTwo Chris Packham should stick to filming badgers. He's not a climatologist. He works for the BBC, less said the better