Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, arrive for the Commonwealth Observance service at Westminster Abbey in London March 9, 2015. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
Prince Charles warned in July 2009 humanity had only 96 months to save the world from “irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse, and all that goes with it” caused by unchecked consumerism.
Saturday marked the 96-month deadline the Prince of Wales set, meaning that, according to Charles, humanity has run out of time to avert “an environmental crisis.”
“We face the dual challenges of a world view and an economic system that seem to have enormous shortcomings, together with an environmental crisis – including that of climate change – which threatens to engulf us all,” Charles said in a 2009 speech at St. James’s Palace in London.
Charles is a fervent environmentalist and critic of capitalism, which he sees as “an enormous cost to the Earth.” In his 2009 speech, Charles claimed humanity needed “coherent financial incentives and disincentives” to to avoid environmental catastrophe.
The prince has argued global warming has already impacted society, claiming man-made warming was the “root cause” of the Syrian civil war. He also backed the Paris agreement on climate change that U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to exit in the coming years.
Ironically, Charles’s calls to check consumerism have been undermined by his own lavish lifestyle. His summer residence in Scotland, for example, is the sprawling 53,000-acre estate of Birkhall where he’s attended by dozens of servants.
“Despite his attack on the materialism of the modern age, the Prince has been criticised for his own indulgences, including dozens of staff to run his homes and hundreds of thousands of pounds spent traveling around the world. While his private estates on the Duchy of Cornwall generate record profits his tax bill was lower than the year before,” the UK Independent noted in 2009.
Regardless, Charles has joined the ranks of prophets of doom who set deadlines to avert a global crisis.
“But for all its achievements, our consumerist society comes at an enormous cost to the Earth, and we must face up to the fact that the Earth cannot afford to support it,” Charles said in his 2009 speech.
“Just as our banking sector is struggling with its debts – and paradoxically also facing calls for a return to so-called ‘old-fashioned’, traditional banking – so Nature’s life-support systems are failing to cope with the debts we have built up there too,” he said.
“If we don’t face up to this, then Nature, the biggest bank of all, could go bust. And no amount of quantitative easing will revive it,” Charles said, predicting humanity only had 96 months to avert catastrophe.
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Long live the Queen?
….. or long live King William IV.
Actually he would be William V. William IV was king from 1830-37.
The silly Prince.
2Cents worth.
There won’t be a King William IV any time soon. it has already been decided that Prince William if he ascends to the throne, either before his father or later, will become King George VII, after his great grandfather (who himself was actually named Albert.
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Maybe we should make him “King of the Earth” to save us all from globull warming and that nasty capitalism.
the brit’s usually say: “god save the queen” so technically she doesn’t have to worry about the 96-mon eco collapse, the ordinary brits are on their own
God save the queen. The prince is on his own.
God save the queen – but Jesus keeps his money at the 1st National bank.
Jesus saves!
“the brit’s” don’t ‘usually’ say “god save the queen”.
There are an enormous number of us opposed the parasitic royals who have been a drain on our resources for generations simply for a bit of tourist curiosity.
There presence promotes the concept of fascism amongst developing countries with the concept of a grand leader, with a lavish lifestyle, dictating to the commoners. You need only watch the footage of despots in their finery which mirrors the military foundations of the British monarchy.
It’s high time these over privileged, land grabbing thief’s, were stripped of their ill gotten gains, to be returned to the public.
Perhaps Charlie boy should consider that before opening his ever widening trap about socialism, or in his case, any subject he care to pontificate about.
And if anyone else has read about Al Gores ‘Gentleman’s’ qualification from Harvard(?) where the children of the wealthy are awarded a ‘C’ pass under any circumstances, Charlie boy was just the same. A notable intellectual dunce who, because of his wealth and inherited position, continues to make illogical and idiotic pronouncements on any subject he see’s fit.
The man was, is, and continues to be a buffoon.
So in fact I’ll retract my first statement. God save the Queen indeed, the longer she lives the less time this idiot will rule over our country when he succeeds her.
Ain’t it a scream how the nobs who live on the biggest pile of dividends all claim to be “anti-capitalist?” Wot? They going to go wait tables or drive a bus or something? Crock o’ shite!
Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, most likely will be crowned as the king Philip I
Dude why do you think the Queen is still alive? She’s holding on, through sheer willpower, to make sure her idiot son is on the throne for as little time as possible.
The queens mum lived to 101 – so – the genetics might be with her.
The poor woman, she wakes every morning and hope to read her son’s obituary.
Long live the Queen!
….or long live King William IV.
Already taken as pointed out by 3¢worth above !
Anyone who declares the outcome to the month is whistling past the graveyard.
You know he’s an idiot, right?
Long live the Queen!
Pretty much everybody knows he’s an idiot. Even the BBC gives him decreasing attention these days, whether he is predicting the end of the world next week, or whenever his plants tell him it will happen.
I think even most of the media actually treat him as one level below ‘fake news’, if you can believe it.
I suspect Prince Chuckie is in many ways to the UK what Al Gore is to the U.S.
Royals really aren’t great thinkers despite their pedigree and education.
Been hit in the head by one too many polo mallets.
Yes, but being hit on the head had no effect on his intelligence because there isn’t any!
But England has a history of mad kings! After all, we have to thank George III for the split between the English in America and the English in England.
We’ve passed so many tipping points already….why don’t we just declare it a total loss and go on about our business
Perhaps we have been through so many “tipping points” that we are now right-side-up again?
Good pitch, I can roll with your idea.
Either way, Al Gore and Prince Charles say we have passed the tipping point. There is nothing more we can do. So let’s take them at their word and do nothing more. Dropping out of the Paris Agreement was a good start.
Latitude
…passed so many… There you go! It’s all over but the crying, so let’s hop in the SUV and go down to the bar and have a beer in air conditioned comfort.
A cold beer, or British style?
…and fire up the barbecue grille while you’re at it!!!
And according to the IEA, the clock has already run out. From the 2011 IEA World Energy Outlook:
“If internationally co-ordinated action is not implemented by 2017, we project that all permissible CO2 emissions in the 450 Scenario will come from the infrastructure then existing, so that all new infrastructure from then until 2035 would need to be zero-carbon. This would theoretically be possible at very high cost, but probably not practicable in political terms.”
“If we do not change course, by 2015 over 90% of the permissible energy sector emissions to 2035 will already be locked in. By 2017, 100%.”
Maria van der Hoeven
Executive Director
International Energy Agency.
World Energy Outlook 2011
Is she related to that moron that runs Nation magazine. If she is understandably she’s a moron by heredity.
CB, I think it is wrong to defame intellectually dull people by comparing them to fanatics and con artists.
We’ve tipped over already, and nobody noticed.
The myriad consumer goods which people buy are produced and distributed by legions of people who have jobs now, but wouldn’t under a return to “old fashioned” ways, except as serfs and servants of the owner class, the Barons and Kings and Princes.
The Champagne Socies would would need a lot of whipping boys and they would prefer sceptics, but of course feminists would be crying foul at the inequality of it all. And then there are a brace of other genders to be reckoned with. The boys would lose out I guess.
…and the owners of old came by their wealth and power at the point of a sword. How unfortunate for those clinging to the past, that their positions are threatened by those who have an opportunity through the modern ways to wealth; savvy, hard work and innovation.
…made possible by individual Liberty and the right to own property.
…. and made possible by Capitalism.
Meh…I value his opinions as much as I value Bill Nye’s. And Nye is far more educated in the sciences.
For all his hatred for capitalism I don’t see any relinquishing of the perks.
The motto of these hypocrites: “One for all…and the rest for me!”
“Media propaganda” are the two words regarding this issue and many of the gullible.
The BBC and Guardian two of the main ones regarding the UK and if you believed half of what these mentioned, the world would have ended already. Don’t expect of these well known alarmists to have actually read any science papers or even question any findings without a scientific analytical mind.
My East European friends wonder why the Queen is doing this to her children (meaning, not abdicating). Why? She is a wise Queen.
Still not 100% why Charlie and his brood are still in line for the throne. I’m assuming some restriction got lifted? Or was it only a point of honour that Elizabeth’s uncle abdicated? Not really up on my royal rules…
Why Alex? You want to apply?
Reigning king dies, crown first goes to eldest son. Reigning queen dies, crown first goes to eldest male sibling. I think. Rules of royal succession can be silly complicated.
Well Lord M of B could fill you in on that lack of history knowledge.
His Grandfather played a significant role in that event; absent which, we would all be speaking German.
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By the accession rules, the wrong lot have been on the throne since 1461. In 2004, the rightful king of England was identified as Michael Hastings,.He died in Australia in 2012, and I don’t know who the next one is. http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/06/rightful-heir-to-british-throne-dies/
Much of the time, the rules of succession boil down to which side has the bigger army.
Could this be the same Prince of Wallies, who regularly commandeers the Royal Train for his jaunts around the country?
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do-says-prince-of-wallies/
Indeed the little wally actually uses the train more then his mother, who actually does a useful job.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/prince-charles-and-the-age-of-the-royal-train/
Predictions are difficult, especially those about the future.
Why do people who have no real climate knowledge say such asinine things that only make them look stupid latter?
That a really good question! If you’re stupid enough-you have no idea how stupid you look! I think that has the ring of truth to it!
Only intelligent people are mentally equipped to know how stupid they are.
Or, put another way: When you’re dead, you don’t know you’re dead. Only your family and friends know. The same is true when you’re stupid.
It’s called the “Dunning–Kruger effect” as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Well, it looks like it’s too late. Pass me a beer and we’ll all go down together.
No point in worrying about spilt milk, is there?
Plus, it’s easy to be a Socialist when someone else has to pick up the tab…
It’s all that damn royal intermarriage coming into play.
Recessive genes, indeed.
My general impression is that Prince Charles is not the sharpest tool in the box. That said, he is simply reflecting what he has been told by UNFCCC and IPCC and BBC. By comparison, former US Sec. State Kerry said global warming was the world’s biggest problem. Not North Korea, not Iran, not Islamical racidalism. Thereby proving Swiftboat Kerry to be as dumb as he looks.
BTW Charles…you’re doing an excellent job of keeping the blog hopping
don’t know why that posted to Rud!……but you’re doing a great job too! 🙂
L, agree about CtM. About me, not so much. 🙂
Judging someone’s intelligence by the beliefs they hold proves you aren’t very intelligent. I’m sure that there are a lot of people that would judge you to be dumb based on the “nonsense” you spout.
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Judging someone as dumb based on their looks, (Swiftboat Kerry to be as dumb as he looks) just makes your lack of intelligence even worse.
I don’t know which side of the pond you are on, or what generation you belong to, but Kerry’s looks have been compared to the Adams family’s butler, Lurch, who was also not known for his brilliance.
http://cheezburger.com/7167584512
A bit of a stretch, perhaps, but there you have it.
Ted Cassidy was not dumb.
Do you have a problem discerning the difference between the character portrayed on the screen by an actor, and reality? Looks like Americans did just that in electing the guy with that thing on his head.
Um, Ted Cassidy was fairly smart,
but
Lurch, not so much.
“Judging someone as dumb based on their looks” “Looks like Americans did just that in electing the guy with that thing on his head.”
I can’t tell if you’re just oblivious to your lack of reason and logic, or you hate the American president based on his looks but love Kerry based on his, while claiming looks don’t count.
A swing and a miss Sheri. Americans elected the character portrayed on the TV show “The Apprentice.” They are slowly learning that the “actor” isn’t anything like the guy on TV.
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“discerning the difference between the character portrayed on the screen by an actor, and reality? ”
@Michael darby
You have reading comprehension issues, mate.
http://dailynous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/fallacy-ref-nonsequitur.jpg
The most intelligent people are often the most vulnerable to accepting nonsense and indulging in intellectual dishonesty to defend that nonsense. The smarter you are, the better you are at lying to yourself
Hawkins, your problem is you can’t distinguish the act from the actor.
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“Lurch” is not real, but Ted Cassidy is. For your information something that is not real can neither be “dumb” nor can it be “intelligent.” Tell me, is Mickey Mouse dumb or is Mickey Mouse intelligent?
drednicolson, I disagree, a lot of dumb folks are very vulnerable to accepting nonsense and indulging in intellectual dishonesty to defend that nonsense.
Drednicolson, also The dumber you are, the better you are at lying to everyone (i.e. politicians and lawyers)
My usual comment rule per this blogs rules is play the ball, not the man. This post was, however, about Prince Charles’ nutty failed 2009 predictions. Still, played the ball not the man and blamed warmunist ‘propaganda’ for Charles misguided pronouncements.
In Kerry’s case, a deserved exception proves the general rule. AGW a bigger problem than nuclear DPRK? Than Daesh? The ball is the man when he is SecState of US.
As for Trump, MD, Deplorables have spoken. Get used to it. They will speak again in 2018 and 2020. You will need to get used to that, also. Its tough for progressives when the silent majority decides not not to remain silent. Brexit. Trump. Macron. All repudiating an unworkable status quo.
LOL Macron……He not a “deplorable”, he’s a centrist…..you seem to have forgotten what happened to the real French “deplorable” Marine Le Pen.
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PS, keep an eye on the approval rating of the Deplorable in the Oval Orifice.
Ristvan claims he will “play the ball, not the man.”
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Excellent
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Please change: “Prince Charles is not the sharpest tool in the box” to “Prince Charles’ predictions are not the sharpest of tools in the box.”
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That way you’d be following your own rule.
Hey Griff, that’s a pretty stupid comment! People’s beliefs are a direct reflection of their intelligence. On your latter point you are correct, however, it is wrong to judge people by the quality of their dental work. Not so much on the quantity of their plastic surgury, though.
Michael darby, apparently you cannot read. ristvan did not call Macron a “deplorable.” His point is that the ignored voters have wised up to the fact that the entrenched politicians care only for their themselves. The Republicans mistakenly believe that they won the last election. Trump won and any Republicans who oppose his policies that his supporters favor will find themselves voted out of office at the first opportunity. The Democrats have not figured this out either. Many of their voters are starting to wake up, too. If there are enough candidates who support Trump and oppose the establishment in the next mid-term elections, things will be very interesting.
“They are slowly learning that the “actor” isn’t anything like the guy on TV.”
That’s what Putin said about Trump after their meeting last week.
I assume Putin meant he’s not anything like he is portrayed by the Leftstream media. And he’s not. Trump’s supporters think they are seeing a supercharged Ronald Reagan in action. Maybe Putin is starting to think that way, too.
John Kerry is not the swiftest boat in the water…..
Don’t get me started on John Kerry.
The only public figure I can bring to mind of top of head who isn’t a total maroon on this is the tv botanist David Bellamy. Well he was a tv botanist but now he’s an unemployed tv botanist for calling the global warming bs out – in a shock result.
David Bellamy is still a well regarded figure around the world for his common sense environmental work. And now in (my) later life he is even more well regarded for his common sense global warming views that fell foul of the leftist consensus. He lost most of his TV work and many of his committee positions because of it.
“for his common sense global warming views that fell foul of the leftist consensus.”
“Leftist consensus”. That’s a good way to put it. And the leftist consensus will punish you if you don’t go along with their agenda.
96 months? You mean, if we had done something in month 95, we could have averted disaster, but now it’s too late? Why didn’t his highness remind us last month? Oh, the fox hunt was on? Sorry, who knew?.
Well 96 months ago if we could have used all resources and stopped the strong El Nino, the world would have been saved. (/sarc)
Now that it is too late, what me worry? (credit: Alfred E Neuman)
If we cannot now change the future, the tipping point having been passed, we might as well sit back and enjoy the show. No need for more studies, conventions or any other expenditures. These guys remind me of the religious people who pick a date for the rapture, all their followers get excited, and then nothing happens, and then they move the date down the road.
The tipping point must always be in the future or the gravy train ends.
Dear Prince,
When this stops happening, it is the end —
Until then life will continue, with or without you.
TM.
Tom, your diagram and explanation are incorrect.
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Solar energy is NOT used to remove oxygen (O2) from carbon dioxide (CO2.)
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The oxygen comes from splitting H20 molecules: https://www.howplantswork.com/2009/02/16/plants-dont-convert-co2-into-o2/
Don’t tell HRH.
Michael, I learned this here too sometime back (O2 from H2O). It’s a education worth repeating.
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Solar energy is NOT used to remove oxygen (O2) from carbon dioxide (CO2.)
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It’s interesting that the overall equation for photosynthesis is:
(For example see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis)
There’s 6 carbon atoms on the left and 6 carbon atoms on the right; 12 hydrogen atoms on the left and 12 hydrogen atoms on the right; and 18 oxygen atoms on the left and 18 oxygen atoms on the right. You need 12 oxygen atoms on the right for the 6 oxygen molecules. There’s not enough oxygen atoms in the 6 molecules of water on the left. I wonder where the other 6 oxygen atoms come from?
Jim
Good illustration. Plants make sugars that feed all kinds of critters. I tend to use the carbohydrates produced by this chemistry of life as ethanol in an aqueous solution. Right now I am drinking an extract from Vitis Vinifera fruit that has been modified by saccharomyces c. yeast. Life is good!
What vintage?
“caused by unchecked consumerism.”
What a hypocrite! When did he last have to work for his weeks food?
I have a great respect for the queen as a person, but because I know that capitalism is the only way to feed me, my family and every other normal person inthe world, I have very little respect for the institution of royalty or aristocracy.
“Charles is a fervent environmentalist and critic of capitalism”
Well in spite of his impeccable ancestry, with only a fuzzy period about Richard III’s time, poor old Charles is simply not very bright.
He would be a good candidate for being a weather forecaster though.
Thank God that the tipping point has now been reached. This means that no matter what we do we are now doomed. Resistance is now futile. We now can no longer save future generations from this inevitable fate. Any money or sacrifices expensed will have no impact and make no difference. So what is the conclusion we make from all this.
LET’S PARTY !!
Logical. Climate science can now return to its prior classification of esoteric.
Also means rejecting the Paris Accord was the right move. No matter what we do, we’re toast according to Charles. No reason to participate in any more silliness.
As only Rodney could put it:
https://youtu.be/_zNUlcNsVHs
There must be a remote island somewhere without power or resources and with lots of voracious wildlife where he can be king of the coconuts.
One nut talking to lots of others?
He talks to plants.
I have nothing else to say.
A Botanical DooLittle! Do they respond and converse?
Well, the did try to tell him about photosynthesis, but only ended up confusing and annoying him. 🙂
My petunias all say you’re mean!
Switch to daisies. They aren’t as judgmental.
So tulips are schizophrenic?
With the decline of bees many flowers go un-pollinated. I assist the plants in my garden with manual pollination. It may make the neighbor lady giggle, but I find it helps to talk to the plants while I violate them.
So, does saying “Baby, oh baby” help while digitally penetrating a flower to play with the stamen? I do not know, and frankly do not care. I have squash while others have squat.
Life is good.
It’s not your voice, it’s the extra CO2 you’re exhaling on them. ;]
I will be more than happy to send you all the bees you want…we are overrun with them
Flowering plants somehow managed to survive on this continent for millenia before the European honey bee was introduced.
The bees are fine, not to mention the 4000 native species.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2016/08/24/the-buzz-seven-reasons-not-to-worry-about-the-bees/#155c72e5249c
It’s easy to denigrate capitalism when you’ve never had to work a day in your life, provide a service people want and value, build something that make other people’s life better, etc.
That’s exactly the point… with unchecked capitalism, EVERYONE has the chance to join the ranks of the wealthy, and then Prince Chuckie wouldn’t be so “special” anymore!
Prince Charles was known for talking about grey goo. Hmm… what is grey and might be gooey with the Prince?
I’m still waiting for the Nano-bot apocalypse. There is Charles’ version or the one presented on Futurama. Little benders hold better entertainment value so I will go with the obvious comedy.