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Prince Charles warns on the urgency of the world’s environmental crisis

Mankind must go green or die, says Prince Charles Environmental damage left unchecked would be ‘suicide on a grand scale’, Prince warns The independent, JONATHAN BROWN    23 NOVEMBER 2012 The Prince of Wales has warned that mankind is on the brink of “committing suicide on a grand scale” unless urgent progress is made in tackling green issues such as carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, intensive farming and resource depletion.
Adopting uncharacteristically apocalyptic language, the Prince said the world was heading towards a “terrifying point of no return” and that future generations faced an “unimaginable future” on a toxic planet.

In a pre-recorded speech broadcast in acceptance of an lifetime
environmental achievement award, the Prince said green views that had
once seen him written off as a “crank” were now backed by hard
evidence.

He told the gala ceremony for the 7th International Green Awards at
Battersea Power Station in London that fossil fuels and supplies of
fresh water were under pressure while the stability of weather
patterns was threatened and “vast amounts of CO2” were still pumped
into the atmosphere. “Humanity and the Earth will soon begin to suffer
some very grim consequences,” he said.

“It’s therefore an act of suicide on a grand scale to ride so
roughshod over those checks and balances and flout nature’s necessary
limits as blatantly as we do.

““The longer we go on ignoring what is already happening and denying what will happen in the future, the more profoundly we condemn our grandchildren and their children to an unbearably toxic and unstable existence. We simply have to turn the tide.”….
I don’t actually recommend it as a pastime but, extraordinary as it
may seem, nowadays … that intuitive feeling has been backed up by a
mass of scientific evidence in every possible field confirming that
our predominant approach is having a very adverse effect on nature.”

However Dr Benny Peiser, director of Lord Lawson’s Global Warming
Policy Foundation, said the Prince’s views were still out of step with
mainstream thinking. ….
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mankind-must-go-green-or-die-says-prince-charles-8347524.html

November 26, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized