William Shatner had fans worried as he issued a dire warning of “very quick” deaths on Good Morning Britain.

The Star Trek icon appeared on UK TV to warn fans about “human extinction” amid the climate change crisis. He urged King Charles to make an urgent warning to the British public at COP28 in a bombshell interview.

The star told the programme: “He’s got to say ‘we’re all going to die’. That’s what he should say to open up with. ‘Very quickly, we’re all going to die,” he should say.

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“England is one of the foremost countries in the world and it has to lead. We’re burrowing into our own graves,” the 92-year-old warned. He then added: “We’re dying man. Your children are going to have difficulty living. Do you understand that?”

GMB’s North America correspondent Noel Phillips then quizzed Bill if he was genuinely fearful of human extinction, to which he replied: “Insects are going extinct. We don’t go around saying, ‘oh my god, insects are going’. Who cares? And we stupid human beings don’t even know they existed in the first place.”

However, Shatner came under fire from fans who reminded the star that he recently went to space on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Viewers of the ITV programme took to social media to protest his warning.

One moaned: “William Shatner didn’t care about the climate when he went into space polluting the air with rocket fuel, a case of do what I say but not what I do.” While someone else said: “@GMB Williams Shatner, on your news, is a hypocrite and all these people travelling around the world talking about climate change.”

Another raged: “Did I just hear that right? William Shatner who apparently went to space says climate change is due to stupid people.” While a fourth fan posted: “The irony. William Shatner, the man that went to the edge of space in the Blue Origin for fun. Hypocrisy at its absolute finest.”

He became the oldest person to travel to space in 2021, experiencing several minutes of weightlessness as the rocket hit zero-G. But his trip left him feeling grief and an “overwhelming sadness”, writing in his book Boldly Go: “The extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna … things that took 5 billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. It filled me with dread.

“My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.” He said the wealthy should be “trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live.”

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It comes after Bill shared plans for his own funeral when chatting to Jackass star Steve-O on his podcast. He explained he wants his ashes incorporated into the ground to help become a tree.

Shatner said: “If you believe in a soul, a life after death, it does not interfere with that. Your body – like every other body that dies – is taken over by fungi. Nature reclaims you no matter what you do so why not have a voice in your reclamation? And I chose a tree.”

The actor added: “Tell your loved ones, ‘cremate me’ – because you have to. Put the goodness in place, where the tree is gonna grow and plant the tree. There’s no law saying you have to have a tombstone.”

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