Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

We've only got 10 years to save the planet, warns Prince Charles on the 50th anniversary of landmark speech he gave on plastic pollution and other threats to the environment
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 08:15 EST, 19 February 2020 | Colin Fernandez, Environmental Correspondent

Posted on 02/19/2020 12:23:02 PM PST by Olog-hai

The Prince of Wales has issued a stark warning that humans have just ten years left to save the planet.

“We really do have to pull our fingers out now because the theory is we have got this decade left,” he declared.

Prince Charles was marking the 50th anniversary of a landmark speech he made on the environment by calling for nature to be put back at the center of modern life.

In 1970, he had warned about the problems of plastic waste, chemicals being discharged into rivers and air pollution caused by factories, cars and planes. This was regarded as “completely potty”, said the Prince.

There was also derision for his practical solutions, like a bottle bank at Buckingham Palace or installing a reed-bed sewage treatment system at his Highgrove home in Gloucestershire.

Speaking in an interview on the Sustainable Markets website, the Prince said: “Everything we are doing has been to destroy our own means of survival, let alone the survival of everything else we depend on. But at the same time, we seem to be unable to understand that there is an alternative way of doing it, which is to put nature back at the center, value everything she does and build from there, and now there is an amazing amount that can be done through the circular bio-economy.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; gaiaworship; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; princecharles; savetheplanet; uk
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-51 next last
To: House Atreides

I wish I could share that admiration, seeing as how laws such as the 1967 Abortion Act and the 2013 Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act both got her assent.


21 posted on 02/19/2020 12:33:14 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai
“We really do have to pull our fingers out now because the theory is we have got this decade left,”


22 posted on 02/19/2020 12:34:49 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (There is not a climate bedwetter who is not a total hypocrite.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

Why doesn’t he just cut back on the private jet use and we’ll call it a day.


23 posted on 02/19/2020 12:35:27 PM PST by 1Old Pro
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

Make that 9 years, Charles just flew another 16000 miles on his private jet...


24 posted on 02/19/2020 12:38:21 PM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

Here’s hoping he either croaks before his mother or abdicates to William if he survives.


25 posted on 02/19/2020 12:40:11 PM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

The Left has gotten smarter, I suppose.

It used to be 5-year plans to a utopia that never arrives.

Now, its 10-years to a disaster that was never going to happen, anyway.


26 posted on 02/19/2020 12:41:08 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

Charles has 4 mansions, flies thousands of miles a month,” half of them were flown by pilots with no passengers on board, covering nearly 8,000 miles”, has weird custom cars.....but of course us peasants are killing the planet.


27 posted on 02/19/2020 12:41:10 PM PST by Varda
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

I thought we only had 10 years 10 years ago. Time flies . . .


28 posted on 02/19/2020 12:41:21 PM PST by colorado tanker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

Hey! AOC said we still had 11!


29 posted on 02/19/2020 12:42:59 PM PST by dangus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

Ok let’s see..he divorced his beautiful first wife to marry a horsefaced weathered ex girlfriend. And we should value his opinion WHY???..


30 posted on 02/19/2020 12:43:40 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

I have to say, I think that we are so reflexively anti leftist because of their nonsense, that we cede entire issues that should naturally have a Home in conservatism to wackos on the left. I approach nature & the environment from a conservative viewpoint. I hate seeing beautiful rural places eaten up through over development & calling it progress. I like to retain as much nature, trees, open fields & farms as possible. I deplore suburbanization & strip malls & throwing up big, ugly chain stores with no architectural value everywhere. I’m sick to death of watching litter accumulate everywhere. Every time I drive down the street, my eyes are automatically drawn to the litter & I can’t help but wonder why anyone would care so little about beauty & nature & cleanliness. It’s so self-centered & we weren’t raised that way. I’m a conservative. I believe in conservation, but more in line from our own traditional values.


31 posted on 02/19/2020 12:47:21 PM PST by redheadedshannon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Paladin2

His fondest wish; not reality.


32 posted on 02/19/2020 12:51:08 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Jonty30
I think the Flying Spaghetti Monster hath decreed that in ten years, turn off the stove cuz you're done.

Al dente, even sooner, of course.

33 posted on 02/19/2020 12:54:05 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." - Benjamin Franklin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: House Atreides

I’ve asked this several times.

How could a woman of such grace, class and dignity have such a worthless ponce for a son?


34 posted on 02/19/2020 12:56:25 PM PST by FLT-bird
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

PC is a dufus. Surley they can find a better advocate.


35 posted on 02/19/2020 1:08:30 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The media is the enemy of the American people." Democrat Pat Caddell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

Shut Up! Charlie


36 posted on 02/19/2020 1:11:00 PM PST by shalom aleichem (Barr and Durham! Get movin'. Time's awastin')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

Shut Up! Charlie


37 posted on 02/19/2020 1:11:10 PM PST by shalom aleichem (Barr and Durham! Get movin'. Time's awastin')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: redheadedshannon

You can be conservative, a conservationist and reject the climate change hoax that only exists to force a socialist agenda. There is nothing wrong with being against pollution. Democrats/progressives/socialists are pigs. Just look towards Pelosi’s district where you have Schiff filled streets. Conservatives, in my experience, always leave spaces better than before. It happens without thought, because it is the natural state of mind for conservatives.


38 posted on 02/19/2020 1:28:25 PM PST by RubinBoomer (Please be nice. I am new here. I'm open to doing things the FR way, just need to know.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai

Ecoism is nothing new as a religion. The political component of it is pure Socialism.


39 posted on 02/19/2020 1:30:46 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Olog-hai
...only got 10 years to save the planet...

Okay, but how do royals benefit from promoting communism?

40 posted on 02/19/2020 1:30:47 PM PST by Spirochete (GOP: Gutless Old Party)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-51 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson