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.” …
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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.
Why doesn’t he just cut back on the private jet use and we’ll call it a day.
Make that 9 years, Charles just flew another 16000 miles on his private jet...
Here’s hoping he either croaks before his mother or abdicates to William if he survives.
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.
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.
I thought we only had 10 years 10 years ago. Time flies . . .
Hey! AOC said we still had 11!
Ok let’s see..he divorced his beautiful first wife to marry a horsefaced weathered ex girlfriend. And we should value his opinion WHY???..
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.
His fondest wish; not reality.
Al dente, even sooner, of course.
I’ve asked this several times.
How could a woman of such grace, class and dignity have such a worthless ponce for a son?
PC is a dufus. Surley they can find a better advocate.
Shut Up! Charlie
Shut Up! Charlie
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.
Ecoism is nothing new as a religion. The political component of it is pure Socialism.
Okay, but how do royals benefit from promoting communism?
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