Posted on 09/08/2011 8:18:33 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Prince Charles warns of human extinction
Mankind will become extinct, the Prince of Wales has warned, unless humans transform our lifestyles to stop mass consumption, run away climate change and destruction of wildlife.
By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent
2:34PM BST 08 Sep 2011
In his first speech as the new President of the Worldwide Wildlife Fund (WWF) UK, Prince Charles suggested 'surviving ourselves' should be a priority.
Referring to himself as “an endangered species”, he warned that the world is already in the “sixth extinction event”, with species dying out at a much faster rate than at any time since the death of most of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Despite campaigning for years on global warming, he said climate change was not the only problem but merely speeding up the “rapacious” destruction of natural resources like water, land and food that humans need to survive.
The Prince said if the world carries on “business as usual” then the human race itself could be wiped out.
“We are, of course, witnessing what some people call the sixth great extinction event – the continued erosion of much of the Earth’s vital biodiversity caused by a whole host of pressures, from the rising demand for land to the corrosive effects of all kinds of pollution," he said.
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George Carlin beat him to it a long time ago...
=8-)
Pity the poor boy.
>The Prince said if the world carries on “business as usual” then the human race itself could be wiped out.<
As long as liberals die off first, I’m cool with it.
Royal inbreeding comes home to roost...
Well if in-breeding didn’t kill off his family, I think this other stuff isn’t going to amount to anything.
Well it just came to me and I should have noticed it sooner. He is just plain stupid.
Another one who should follow reverend Al Gore to the Gaia’s Temple compound in Guyana.
In an practically unlimited universe we managed to run out of space.
Or do you just want the peasants to go extinct so the ruling class can live in the Walden paradise they deserve?
Referring to himself as “an endangered species”,
Right you are, Jughead.
coming from a guy who certainly looks as if he should never have reproduced...
Aren’t many people who live larger than Charlie. Let me know when he moves into a modest flat giving up both Highgrove and Clarence House. No more royal jets, fly coach. He surely has enough clothes to last for the rest of his life so no more Savile Row. He probably beats Algore in consumption and carbon footprint. Oh, but I forgot. He’s not one of the little people.
his mother seems to have it together.
i wonder if she questions her son’s views?
I hate this guy so much. I just hope the Queen hangs on for a long time so that Charles has a very very short time being King and the real King William gets in there. Seriously Charles has to be the worst person on Earth.....well we have Al Gore...They both should just go to a private island together....take that ugly wife of Charles with them. Al Gore’s wife dumped him the only smart thing she has done.
Chuck Chuck first.
Charles wants to be one of the 500...
Well if people are inbred like he is, he might have a point.
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