Posted on 06/10/2010 5:49:43 PM PDT by Abin Sur
The Prince of Wales has blamed a lack of belief in the soul for the world’s environmental problems, and said that the planet cannot sustain a population expected to reach 9 billion in 40 years.
He said he found it “baffling” that so many scientists professed a faith in God yet this had little bearing on the “damaging” way science was used to exploit the natural world.
The Prince pinned part of the blame on Galileo. Criticising the profit imperative behind much scientific research, he said: “This imbalance, where mechanistic thinking is so predominant, goes back at least to Galileo’s assertion that there is nothing in nature but quantity and motion.
“This is the view that continues to frame the general perception of the way the world works, and how we fit within the scheme of things.
“As a result, Nature has been completely objectified — ‘She’ has become an ‘it’ — and we are persuaded to concentrate on the material aspect of reality that fits within Galileo’s scheme.”
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charlie is still the big nothing he has always been.
Behold the dangers of inbreeding.
Charlie HATES consumerism...why, just last week, while languishing in Monaco on his yacht, he sent back a bottle of champagne because it was worth more than 2200 dollars...robbery....madness, I tell you...harummmmmph.
Inbreeding is bad Charlie.
All those years of inbreeding in Europe has produced this excuse for a man.
Wow, this guy’s a nutball.
That was my first thought as well.
inbred.... yup.
I think he needs a job....and idle mind is the devils playground.
I hope his mother lives and reigns forever..the gene pool has hit its lowest point in this fruitcake.
Is his ambition still to be some horse’s tampon?
Prince Charles is a loon and this proves it.
Has he ever stopped to think that consumerism is not thoughtless, that it is a necessity for the most part.
There are necessary commodities that need purchasing such as food and drink, clothing, shelter, medicine etc.
Charles is a bloody friggin moron.
Not that Diana the Tart's children would be an improvement on the throne.
I love it when an ultra-rich elitist who has everything he could dream utlimatley because of who is mother and father are tells us consumerism is evil. Donate all your eathly possessions and go and live in a cave Charlie
then come back and tell me how bad consumerism is
Wanting and buying things creates jobs world wide.
What would this Royal trust fund baby know?
proof positive of the dangers of in-breeding
Do lots and lots of big jewels and gold count as materialism?
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