David Bellamy died on Wednesday at the ripe old age of 86. Anyone in Britain of my age will have grown up watching him on television as he explained and explored the natural world in his typically exhuberant style that very much appealed to kids. According to the Express, Bellamy died of dementia, although this may be paper talk; Bellamy, after all, did not endear himself to the media in recent years. Bellamy was often outspoken, showing his disdain for wind turbines on BBC flagship children's programme Blue Peter back in 1996; but it was his heresy on climate change that really made the establishment turn against him, which Bellamy referred to as a scam. That said, many on the Right have again been all too hasty to hold him up as #ourguy, for Bellamy, despite his dissent from the establishment line on certain subjects, has always been very much left of centre.
