Posted on 07/09/2009 1:13:06 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Prince Charles: next generation faces 'living hell' unless climate change tackled
The Prince of Wales has warned the next generation face a "living hell" unless governments tackle climate change urgently.
By Urmee Khan, Digital and Media Correspondent
Published: 7:00AM BST 09 Jul 2009
Delivering this year's Richard Dimbleby Lecture, the Prince said: "In failing the Earth, we are failing humanity."
Drawing parallels with the global financial crisis, he said Nature was the "biggest bank of all", warning the Earth is on ethe bring of environmental disaster.
"Just as our banking sector is struggling with its debts... so Nature's life-support systems are failing to cope with the debts we have built up there too," he said. "If we don't face up to this, then Nature, the biggest bank of all, could go bust. And no amount of quantitative easing will revive it."
The Prince called for a rethinking of society's perception of the world.
"If only because, surely, we all want to bequeath to our children and our grandchildren something other than the living hell of the nightmare that for so many of us now looms on the horizon," said.
Referring to an earlier speech in March, when he said there were "less than 100 months to act" to save the planet from irreversible damage due to climate change, he said there are now lonely "96 months left".
He called for a new Age of Sustainability rather than our current "Age of Convenience" where the goal of unlimited economic growth is depleting finite Natural resources to dangerously low levels.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Charles is a real goofy.
One of the dangers of in-breeding.
In old days, it is monarchs and wealthy merchants who donated money to construction of cathedrals and boost their prestige. Now that religion has receded from prominence, the left came out and fill that role. This is how they sustain their movement and make a living: co-opting upper class, turning them into limousine liberals.
In that sense, the left's rival is not business but traditional religion.
He is a nutjob.
The man who would be King.
Can you imagine knowing from your first memory that one day you will be king, but getting to 60 and still being a prince? If his mum lives as long as her mum did, he may never see the crown. Who’s next in line if Queen Elizabeth outlives Chaz? William?
Yeah, Wills is the one.
I wouldn't want that to happen, for the Queen's sake. They say there's no pain greater than burying your own child, even if he is a 60 year old brat.
That must be the boy with Diana's brain. Charles may be an idiot, but Diana was a real pea-brain.
These people are just repeating a mantra, a religion is sprouting before our eyes and its a much much worse cult than the Scientologists with their Thetans
hell is freezing cold
There was a time, a generation or two ago, when it was the rare mother who didn’t bury at least one child, a very young child.
Not that I’d know, not hobnobbing too much with the Royals, but I would imagine their entire outlook on issues of life and death are focused so heavily on the lineage, succession, etc.. that they don’t have the same type of emotional investment in each other that mere commoners do.
When you think of it, when the monarch dies, the first thing they say is “The King is dead; long live the King” to signifiy the immediate transition of power. It’s just a different world than ours. And, in fact, the transition from Elizabeth to Williams would probably be the best thing from the perspective of saving the monarchy in England.
You beat me to it.
Archbishop of Canterbury: Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and of your Possessions and the other Territories to any of them belonging or pertaining, according to their respective laws and customs?
Queen: I solemnly promise so to do.
Archbishop: Will you to your power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all your judgements?
Queen: I will.
Archbishop: Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England? And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them?
Queen: All this I promise to do.
Then the Royal family needs to give up 99.9% of it’s wealth to the “UN” and move to New Jersey.
Yep.
cap-and-trade money, money, money...
...Whatever its impact on the environment, the cap-and-trade carbon scheme is sure to boost the economic and political prospects of people and groups that are behind it. Before the company collapsed under the weight of financial scandal, Enron under CEO Ken Lay was a key proponent of the cap-and-trade idea. So was BP’s [British Petroleum's] Lord John Browne, before he resigned last May under a cloud of personal scandal. In August 1997, Lay and Browne met with President Bill Clinton and Vice President Gore in the Oval Office to develop administration positions for the Kyoto negotiations that resulted in an international treaty to regulate greenhouse gas emissions....
Al Gore is chairman and founder of a private equity firm called Generation Investment Management (GIM). According to Gore, the London-based firm invests money from institutions and wealthy investors in companies that are going green. “Generation Investment Management, purchases -- but isn’t a provider of -- carbon dioxide offsets,” said spokesman Richard Campbell in a March 7 report by CNSNews.
GIM appears to have considerable influence over the major carbon-credit trading firms that currently exist: the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) in the U.S. and the Carbon Neutral Company (CNC) in Great Britain. CCX is the only firm in the U.S. that claims to trade carbon credits.
CCX owes its existence in part to the Joyce Foundation, the Chicago-based liberal foundation that provided $347,000 in grant support in 2000 for a preliminary study to test the viability of a market in carbon credits. On the CCX board of directors is the ubiquitous Maurice Strong, a Canadian industrialist and diplomat who, since the 1970s, has helped create an international policy agenda for the environmentalist movement. Strong has described himself as “a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.” His former job titles include “senior advisor” to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, “senior advisor” to World Bank President James Wolfensohn and board member of the United Nations Foundation, a creation of Ted Turner. The 78-year-old Strong is very close to Gore. ... -------The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade Human Events ^ | 10/03/2007 | Deborah Corey Barnes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1910887/posts
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