#TBT: actor Michel Simon predicted the sixth mass extinction in 1965

When the Swiss actor Michel Simon predicted the extinction of birds, of insects, and of all life on Earth... back in 1965. #tbt

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00:00Are you afraid of the world to come?

00:02Yes, it's tragic.

00:05Is it a world of even greater solitude for you?

00:09Yes, I think so.

00:12I don't envision the future.

00:15It's unthinkable.

00:18The proliferation of the human being,

00:22which is worse than that of the rat,

00:25is appalling.

00:27Don't animals change?

00:29Animals are wonderful because they are in direct contact with nature.

00:35What could have saved humanity is perhaps the woman,

00:38because she is still in contact with nature.

00:41She escapes the laws,

00:45the absurdities emitted by the abnormal.

00:51She is still in contact with nature, but she has no voice in the chapter.

00:54What about animals?

00:56Animals will soon disappear.

00:59In Africa, it's a permanent hecatomb.

01:02When I came here, I had about thirty hyrundale nests.

01:07Last year, I had two hyrundales,

01:09and for the first time I picked up a hyrundale that had fallen from its nest,

01:12which was so poorly fed,

01:15thanks to the progress of science,

01:18the chemical science,

01:20which kills the earth, the insect, the bird,

01:25which kills all life, which assassinates man.

01:27Maybe we'll see too much of it.