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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With the media’s latest hawking of Hawking’s proclamations of climate doom, and in honor of surpassing Prince Charles’ deadline of doom, I hereby celebrate the stupendous stupidity of it all with this digital concoction I just did celebrating yet another outlandish display of alarmism at the following link:
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html?utm_source=nym&utm_medium=f1&utm_campaign=feed-part
Just amazing.
You got some photoshop/whatever chops.
Ridicule is one of the sharpest political waepons skeptics have. Carry on.
Listen hear! you lot.
I am dam lucky to have as future king, Charlie.
If we were to have a right thinking person as King,
Oh! the trouble that would cause.
This big eared chap fits the roll, just fine.
Tell a lot of balderdash, get him to believe it, no problems.
All we have to do then, is say your correct my liege.
The fellow then toddles of, happy to talk to his plants.
Leave the chap alone, he is just what is needed.
God save Lizzie.
sarc.
“If we were to have a right thinking person as King,
Oh! the trouble that would cause.”
You mean like the USA under Emperor Obama? Well, the way he went roughshod over the “Checks & Balances” it sure looked like he THOUGHT he was!
Prince Charles: “Everyone else must make do with less, so that I can make do with more.”
Self-righteous dangerously inbred product of the European royal families.
Isn’t that what Al Gore said?
One for all… and the rest for me!
I thought he only confided with his daffodils!
He could just pull a Phil Jones and extend the deadline another 96 months.
Hide the decline!
Prince Charles: “Everyone else must make do with less, so that I can make do with more.”
Self-righteous dangerously inbred product of the European royal families .
Why is there even a queen/king of England? This is the 21st century for crying out loud.
Because it’s their country and they can run how ever they damn well like.
Too right!
Hear, hear, rocket.
She pays her way.
Why do we even bother to teach history any more. Today’s youth can’t even think beyond the next try at winning that video game on their latest finger toy.
The USA now has about 241 years of history behind it, and “Americans” around double that give or take.
“Europeans” have two to three thousand years of getting to where they are, and some other cultures leave most of us in the dust.
If none of that means anything to you, why are you even here reading this blog ??
Some of us hope to exit this place, and leave it in a better condition than it was when we came into it.
Most of the readers here have no idea at all, just what the heck goes on at Buckingham Palace, day in and day out, It all helps preserve the origins or what some of us think is what makes being human different from being simply mammal.
I don’t think that I could survive being born to a life that would be totally pre-ordained from before I’m even born.
Who was the last mega-millions lottery winner, who “lived happily ever after” ? ?
G
The monarchy promotes “social cohesion”. It is far more important than “diversity” and “inclusivity”.
“george e. smith July 10, 2017 at 4:52 pm
She pays her way.”
She, as in HRH QE2, I don’t recall when it was, didn’t “pay her way”. She doesn’t “earn” anything either rather receives “income” from the civil list.
It seems that a great many Americans upon visiting the UK can’t wait to get to Buckingham Palace to observe the changing of the guard or whatever else is going on. Well at the same time they denigrate the very thing they came to see.
For a great many people the question is why on earth would one visit the UK, if it wasn’t for the pageantry of history. HRH QE2 brings in more tourist dollars than it takes to support the Royals.
No I left the colonies to come and be an American; without a hyphen.
Single greatest obscenity I know of in the English Language, is to put a hyphen in front of the word American.
But I still appreciate what my ancestry means.
Just imagine if I had been born in the remains of the Spanish Colonial Empire instead.
There’s an example for all the world to see. Almost single handedly destroyed the ancient civilizations of Meso-America.
G
Prince Philip expressed a somewhat different view of climate change after his son made such bogus claims: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/9844243/Duke-of-Edinburgh-invites-climate-change-heretic-David-Bellamy-to-Buckingham-Palace.html
I wonder if the poor sausage understands why the grain prices are low especially when he predicted ecosystem collapse.
Grains piled on runways, parking lots, fields amid global glut | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-grains-storage-analysis-idUSKBN17D0EO
11 Apr 2017 – A mountain of grain sits in a storage pile, as midwestern grain farmers and merchants struggle to find storage space after three years of record …
If the old prince got his way, and consumerism economy disappeared, the replacement economy would sooner need to cannibalize the underlying non-producing institutions such as his.
The old prince needs to realize that the masses will not knowingly take less, they will take his first.
An ice free arctic by 2013 was another of his forecasts that failed.
God help us if he becomes King.
The contradiction I cannot fathom is that someone like Charles believes in the science of runaway climaticism and its ability to change the climate but has no faith in science to find answers to problems like feeding the world’s population as science has done for decades.
So….this winter we should all “Heat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die!”?
If he was right about global warming if we use heat lavishly form fossil fuels we would have got enough warming not to need it in the future so our use would have declined anyway. That is why they had to change it to climate change and ignore the strange thing that if we did not get global warming then we could not have climate change from the greenhouse effect without first having the warming.
Fear is just too much fun, I guess.
Next Halloween I will be dressing as a flaming planet Earth. [ghoulish laugh track playing in the background, screams, crackling sounds of burning flesh, etc.]
Rationality is boring and NOT newsworthy.
No dressing up as earth, that’s cultural appropriation and earthist
Yes, you’re right. I had not thought about that.
I’ll dress up as a “scientist” instead.
Bonny Prince Charlie is a Monty Pythonesque upper class twit, lifetime championship award-winner.
Not fair to Monty Python. Charles is not even a funny twit , just a very rude ignorant one. When proved wrong as hindsight has done with no uncertainty factor whatever as we are past the deadline with little if no effect this ignorant twit has not even the decency to apologise with the same publicity level his original insults got.
The earth will be fine. Humanity might be gone but this sphere of rocks will carry on for billions of more years until the sun consumes it in a supernova.
Our sun isn’t big enough to go supernova. Plain old everyday novas for us.
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Our sun isn’t big enough to go supernova. Plain old everyday novas for us.
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Good grief! It will neither nova nor supernova. The Sun is a G2 spectral class, main sequence, yellow, dwarf star. When the Sun leaves the main sequence, it will become a red giant (also called the helium sequence). At the end, it will simply lose its outer layers as a planetary nebula and leave behind a white dwarf. The Earth won’t survive the red giant phase–talk about real global warming!
Jim
oh its all OK now, Charlie boy has pushed thermageddon back to 2050
Yer gotta hand it to him – knows all about cabbages
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Nothing stinks worse than the BS Charley and Al Gore continue to spread. Neither has the awareness to scrape it off their shoes………
Nothing to worry about most countries signed on to the Paris Accord so the world is saved. See we didn’t actually have to DO anything it’s the thought that counts. It’s like pressing Like on Facebook. It doesn’t do anything meanful but you can feel good about yourself because you showed you care. That’s what matters.
Bill J, I think that you have explained this well — yeah, the Paris Accord is very similar to Facebook — it’s a big show of approval for the IDEA of the whole world cooperating to achieve a common goal. It’s showing a “like” for this IDEA. Climate change just happens to be the dressing. It does not have to be a rational idea, … just a symbol — SOMETHING to pin the “like” on.
It’s a raceless, sexless, genderless entity that shows no prejudice towards any faction of humanity, no ill towards any animal. It’s the PERFECT common enemy.
Can you name a better candidate for a common enemy? It’s a big idealistic hand-holding party. Let’s sing together now.
I will re-calculate. Your deaths will be indescribable.
England’s “Profit” of of Doom has now spoken. Soon we’ll hear from our very own “Profit” of Doom about his new film, his inconvenient sequel, as he rakes in profits in the millions we can hope not.
Charles is a fervent critic of capitalism because he wants to return to his feudalism roots, and his environmentalism is just a tool to put us all in our places as serfs at his beck and command.
When he starts living like he actually believes what he’s preaching, then I might start to believe that he believes.
The irony is he IS living out what he is preaching: huge benefits for the royals, serfdom for the rest of us.
“Nature, the biggest bank of all, could go bust.”
All I know is that nature refuses to give me a loan. So she might as well go bust as far as I’m concerned.
The one function of the monarchy should be to provide an uncontentious figurehead. Since Charles has so spectacularly failed in this he should never be allowed to succeed as head of state. He is also no gentleman as any gentleman would have apologised for the gratuitous insults he used to describe those who correctly given hindsight said climate scientists were talking bovine excrement.
Some of us were also so much more educated in practical engineering than any scientists that we could correctly point out why whey would be wrong, from our training is both signal analysis to determine the climate normal progression and from our ability to see that the had no concept of the inadequacies of their data collection in urban areas.
Data readily available shows not one of the claimed records are in fact real when intermediate non urban points are used.
Then there was the King John of Magna Carta fame, of whom Marriot Edgar wrote:
“Being King, of course, he could do no wrong. But by gum, he’d a bloody good try!”
Marriot Edgar’s comic poem is at https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/magna-carta/ and was famously read by Stanley Holloway.
Hate capitalism does he? So maybe he’ll reduce the price on his over-priced “Duchy Originals” organic food brand. Its a global success apparently and has been adopted by the likes of Waitrose in the UK. Hmmm capitalism is bad. Except when its making him richer.
The usual guff from a man who doesn’t have to live in the world everyone else does; do as I say, not as I do and a massive hypocrite to boot.
Environmentalism is a luxury.
When you have to burn dung for heat, you don’t give a hoot about environmentalism
The smoke from smoldering dung also functions as an all-natural, sustainable mosquito repellant. So why don’t the yuppie Greens use it at their summer garden parties?