A 104-YEAR-OLD scientist feared for the future of Earth and claimed “there are just too many of us” before he died by assisted suicide this month.

David Goodall, an accomplished British-Australian ecologist, inflamed the euthanasia debate worldwide when he killed himself at a Swiss clinic May 10.

Now the controversial figure who supported him to his death has revealed Dr. Goodall “agreed... he was getting out, just in time.”

In an extraordinary statement, euthanasia advocate Dr. Philip Nitschke outlined Goodall’s concerns about the world’s booming population.

“He considered his own decision to ‘exit’ of his own accord as his personal contribution to addressing over-population,” Nitschke’s statement said.

The Exit International campaigner this week released Goodall’s final letter to Australia and a short statement describing some of his last musings.

He revealed Goodall had recently “repeated concerns” about the planet, particularly unchecked population growth.

“There are just too many of us, consuming too much, changing too many ecosystems too fast,” Goodall was quoted saying.

The lauded scientist pointed to climate change as evidence of damage unchecked growth was doing to the Earth.

“It is too late to revert back to the relatively calm and evenly balanced systems we had enjoyed up to the 1950s,” Goodall was quoted saying. “All we can do now is to adapt to the resulting changes and the damages we caused, us in the first world to an overwhelming degree being responsible for this.”

Goodall said he was “not optimistic” the world would curb climate change by abiding by the Paris climate agreements “but it is worth giving it a good try.”

“We might prevent the changes spiraling out of control,” he said. (SD-Agencies)