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Prince Charles says climate change is terrifying
ap on Yahoo ^ | 10/30/05 | Michael McDonough - ap

Posted on 10/30/2005 8:06:43 PM PST by NormsRevenge

LONDON - Prince Charles says he believes the pace of climate change is terrifying and people are becoming too dependent on technology.

In a rare TV interview ahead of his official tour of the United States next week, Charles expressed concern that economic progress is "upsetting the whole balance of nature."

"You know, if you look at the latest figures on climate change and global warming ... they're terrifying, terrifying," Charles told CBS' "60 Minutes" in the interview aired Sunday.

The prince is a keen environmentalist, but his office declined to say whether Charles will raise the issue of climate change when he dines with President Bush at the White House this week. Clarence House, the prince's office, said it would not be appropriate to comment on a private dinner.

In the past, Bush has questioned the existence of global warming. The United States has refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions, saying it would harm the economy.

Charles, who will be visiting with his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, also said he was worried about the importance of technology in modern life.

"If you make everything over efficient, you suck out, it seems to me, every last drop of what, up to now, has been known as culture," Charles said in the interview, which was recorded last month in Poundbury, England.

"We are not the technology. It should be our ... slave, the technology. But it's rapidly becoming our master in many areas, I think," he said.

Charles will travel to the United States on Tuesday for his first official tour of the country since 1994, although he has made a number of private visits since then. He last visited the United States on June 11, 2004, for the funeral of former President Ronald Reagan.

During the tour, Charles and Camilla will inaugurate a new memorial garden in New York for the British victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center. They will also travel to Washington for their lunch and dinner with President Bush and Mrs. Bush. During the final leg of the tour, Charles and Camilla will meet homeless people in San Francisco.

In previously released excerpts of the CBS interview, Charles said he was concerned about being seen as irrelevant.

"The most important thing is to be relevant ... It isn't easy, as you can imagine ... because if you say anything, people will say, 'It's all right for you to say that.' It's very easy to just dismiss anything I say. ... It's difficult," the heir to the British throne said.

Charles says his duty is "worrying about this country and its inhabitants."

He adds: "I find myself born into this particular position. I am determined to make the most of it."

Charles has won respect for the time he devotes to The Prince's Trust, which has helped more than 35,000 disadvantaged young people start their own businesses and provided job training to thousands more each year.

He hopes efforts like these are valued, telling interviewer Steve Kroft lightheartedly: "I only hope that when I'm dead and gone, they might appreciate it a little bit more."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: camillastampon; climatechange; godsavethequeen; horsepecked; princecharles; princeupchuck; royals; royalvisit; terrifying
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1 posted on 10/30/2005 8:06:44 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Prince Charles' wife is terrifying.
2 posted on 10/30/2005 8:07:33 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Prince Charles of Great Britain, talks to '60 Minutes' Correspondent Steve Kroft, left, in his first interview given to an American network in over a decade. The interview, which took place last month in Poundbury, England, a village the Prince developed as a symbol of social and ecological harmony. The interview will be broadcast, Sunday Oct. 30 on CBS. (AP Photo/CBS News, Paul Mottram)


3 posted on 10/30/2005 8:08:09 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: clee1

No, Prince Charles is terrifying!


4 posted on 10/30/2005 8:08:23 PM PST by Aussiebabe
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To: NormsRevenge


What a putz.


5 posted on 10/30/2005 8:08:50 PM PST by roylene
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To: NormsRevenge

He's such a girlie man.


6 posted on 10/30/2005 8:09:12 PM PST by neodad (Rule Number 1: Be Armed)
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To: Aussiebabe

Looking at his wife is terrifying!


7 posted on 10/30/2005 8:09:16 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: NormsRevenge

he ought to buy an umbrella


8 posted on 10/30/2005 8:10:02 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (The search for someone to blame is always successful. - Robert Half)
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To: NormsRevenge
Guys shouldn't say things like "it's terrifying, terrifying". It's just not......manly.
9 posted on 10/30/2005 8:10:18 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: NormsRevenge

Charles reminds me so much of the financially-shielded minds of Hollywood -- they desperately need something to do with their brains that is meaningful...


10 posted on 10/30/2005 8:10:34 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: NormsRevenge

Not the best of royalty, often disgraceful.


11 posted on 10/30/2005 8:12:09 PM PST by Ecclesiastes (Ghandi would have been a Republican, in time.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Note to Founders:

Thanks for ridding of us of the likes of these people.

12 posted on 10/30/2005 8:12:19 PM PST by lawnguy (It works Napoleon, you don't even know.)
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To: NormsRevenge

It appears he will never make it to the throne.

He probably posses enough wealth (for what reason, exactly?) to escape any potential terror that creeps into his life.

-DAH


13 posted on 10/30/2005 8:12:46 PM PST by DestroyAllHumans (Cogito Ergo Sum)
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To: EagleUSA

Maybe he should get off his butt and mow that grass!


14 posted on 10/30/2005 8:13:19 PM PST by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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To: lawnguy

Amen.


15 posted on 10/30/2005 8:13:38 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: NormsRevenge

As Charles should know. Global warming can cause you to marry a horse.


16 posted on 10/30/2005 8:13:41 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: NormsRevenge

What a Wuss!


17 posted on 10/30/2005 8:13:53 PM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (God bless our troops!! Our President and those who fight against the awful commie, liberal left!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

and yet we still make fun of people from Kentucky as being inbred... (JK! Kentuckians)


18 posted on 10/30/2005 8:13:54 PM PST by spookadelic
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To: NormsRevenge
Now, now Charles, the puddle about your shoes is quite unbecoming of a Prince.

Or rather are you the Pansy of Wales.
19 posted on 10/30/2005 8:14:02 PM PST by A message ( Being a "Progressive" means never having to be truthful to yourself)
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To: NormsRevenge
He should be worried about the afflatus emanating from his equine wife.
20 posted on 10/30/2005 8:14:18 PM PST by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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