Posted on 05/01/2007 2:43:09 PM PDT by Screamname
Prince Charles: climate change battle is like World War II
May 1 02:37 PM US/Eastern
Prince Charles compared the challenge of tackling climate change to the Allies' struggle in World War II during a speech to business leaders Tuesday.
Addressing representatives from firms including Barclays Bank, British Airways and Rolls-Royce at Saint James's Palace, Charles said that "we need to act very rapidly indeed" to avert environmental disaster.
"We can do it, just think what they did in the last war. Things that seemed impossible were achieved almost overnight," the heir to the throne added.
Charles has long harboured a passionate interest in green issues -- he has described climate change as "the biggest threat to mankind" while facing criticism that his own lifestyle does not match his rhetoric.
He announced in December last year that he wanted to reduce the impact of overseas royal visits on the environment by replacing carbon-heavy private planes and helicopters with scheduled flights and trains "where appropriate."
But he raised eyebrows among figures including Britain's Environment Secretary, David Miliband, when he flew to the United States to pick up an environmental award.
Charles said Tuesday that business leaders could pay a key role in tackling ecological issues, adding: "It cannot be business as usual."
"When I was serving in the Royal Navy...mayday, mayday, mayday was the distress call used in cases of emergency. It still is, and this is an emergency we face," he added, apparently punning on the date of his address.
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Global Warming message from the Kotex Kid.
This man is an insufferable fool.
Well the Iranians think the Holocaust was one.
Did Charles say this before or after sending a jet to retrieve his trollop of a wife’s favorite shoes?
What an embarrassment this man is to England. I think I’ll send him an offer to purchase climate change hysteria offset credits for 100 pounds each. I could be rich.
Hey, Queenie, he's at it again...
if his son serves in Iraq where the rubber meets the road, he will come back and publically slap his father
Same guy who zips around the globe in his private jet.
Long live the Queen!
Inbreeding at work?
To be fair, historically they are probably due for a crazy king... ;)
Dear NancyBoy of Wales
Shut the hell up and go back and talk to your plants. Leave the world to those of us who have, you know, JOBS.
And call him a little b*tch.
Not just Chuckles....
Camilla's high heels leave a huge carbon footprint
Conservation is for the little people.
Charles needs to be whisked off to an insane asylum.
Mental illness crops up within dynasties from time to time.
And all these years I thought Princess Di was the mentally defective one.
Oh, dear. How embarassing.
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