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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Clever prophets if doom secure their profits by avoiding firm deadlines. Apocalyptic claptrap cannot thrive if specific deadlines are stated. Enough of the rubes may remember the deadline and realize they have been conned. That is bad for the apocalyptic claptrap business.
So HRH Prince Charles was talking sh1te too then, alongside every other predictor of human doom in history that has been flat-out wrong. Paul Ehrlich, every advocate of Peak Oil, food crisis, crops crisis, population crisis, you-name-it-it’s-a-crisis crisis. The thing is predictions of wealth, health and human happiness don’t make the news, nor do they generate grant funding. ‘If it bleeds, it leads’, is the editors maxim and with good reason.
He’s the complete opposite to his father ‘Phil the Greek’ who hasn’t lost his marbles.
It is said that his father wanted to put him up for adoption, but nobody wanted him. So they sent him to Gordonstoun. That didnt’t help either.
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”
Fool! You have only 96 seconds to save your ass
Pretty soon we are going to pass a 96-year May – October afternoon cooling trend for the United States.
I was reading this morning about a study that “proves” that we are in the midst of a 6th mass extinction event and nobody has noticed.
Apparently there have been billions of local and sub-populations of animals that have been wiped out without anyone taking note.
So apparently, Charles’s environmental collapse has already occurred.
I just cured my cold, wiping untold numbers of organisms in the process. How shall I designate this mass extinction?
Even more shocking is this:
https://www.treehugger.com/cars/trillions-of-insects-killed-by-cars-every-year-says-study.html
Last May, Dutch biologist Arnold van Vliet embarked on a bold and buggy mission to count how many insects are killed by cars — and six weeks later, the results are in.
To perform the census of bug vs. car fatalities, the researcher enlisted the help of around 250 drivers to count the number of squashed insects on their front licence plates per distance travelled. After some simple math, van Vliet has arrived at a figure that is nothing short of astronomical.
With the help of volunteer squished-insect-counters submitting data to a web site devoted to the dead bug census, SplashTeller, biologists have learned a bit more about how deadly driving can be. All told, over the course of six weeks and 19,184 miles of travel, the smooshed bodies of no less than 17,836 insects were discovered — on the cars’ front licence plates alone. That averages to two insects killed (in that particular area of the vehicle) for every 6.2 miles traveled.
While the lives of a couple of bugs may not seem like much, van Vliet is quick to point out that all those little deaths really add up — to nearly a trillion insect fatalities caused by cars every six months in the Netherlands alone.
So, forget the CO2 problem with driving fossil-fuel propelled motor vehicles. The REAL problem is insect vehicular homicide.
I had no idea. Humankind is truly despicable ! … We should all stop driving imMEDIATELY, start walking everywhere we go, and cover our faces, so that we avoid inhaling any living creature accidentally and killing it. Death is so unnatural.
I can see the animal rights protestors making their signs now….
Stop The Senseless Slaughter Of Insects On Our Nations Highways!
Insects Are People Too!
Let’s hope the eco-loons don’t take their lunacy too far or they will cease personal hygiene to preserve their “biosphere”. Perhaps it would reduce their time disrupting the planet.
Those bugs are way more intelligent than all that. They have an innate feel for the direction that the earth is heading, with the 6th mass extinction already rolling along so fast it cant’t be stopped.
Humanity (the so called apex creatures on earth) and its blatant uncaring oppression that forces those poor empathetic bugs into deeper and deeper depression is the primary cause of those trillions of suicides.
I find it fascinating how someone with the lifestyle that Charles enjoys, is so worried about other people’s addiction to “consumerism”.
At the recent state opening of parliament, the Queen took advantage of “Bring your child to work” day:
http://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2017062140018/the-queen-prince-charles-attend-state-opening/
Prince Charles has a net worth of $100 million. https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/royals/prince-charles-net-worth/
And nothing wrong with that, provided he puts his money where his mouth is.
Prince Chuckles
Long live the Queen!
Like Gore he is a good for me but not for thee kind of guy. According to Hungary Today publication Prince Charles also has an estate in Transylvania that looks very good.
So he is breeding bats as well? Bloodsuckers like each other…
If Charlie Jug-Ears is such an ardent criticism of capitalism and an enthusiastic proponent of climate alarmism how come his garage is full to bursting with high-end and very expensive motor vehicles?
Prince of Wails. King of Hypocrits.
Many of us Brits hope the succession will skip a generation. And a good thing it would be too.
Yes, I see how a man like him would give monarchy a bad name.
These are all gifts he didn’t dare to refuse.
Prince Charles… the man that wanted to be the tampon of his girlfriend. Sick puppy.
I thought he wanted to be reincarnated as a deadly virus, so die already.
That was the wish of his father, Prince Philip.
There’s something very wrong with that family.
Kein Angst, Charlie the daft. Your friends the trees ate all the CO2 regardles of amount, starting with creating our atmosphere from 95% CO2, and have kept it at the minimum to support the carbon cycle, including them and us, at well under 1% for Billions of years. They like the job, are not bothered by another 100ppm or so, and know MIchael Mann et al are science denying frauds on the facts of how the natural climate really works. And you have the advantage on us that you can even ask them :-). At least your Dad knows you are just another nutty science denying Malthusian, who thinks we should all be feudal and agrarian again, as long as he is one of the privileged few. Why should those of us who are educated to understand the issues you are not, do more than laugh at your delusional and regressive stupidity on the facts? Frack off. A great argument for a Republic.
He is straightening all his streams, ditches and brooks. He doesn’t like cromwells…
I meant “as long as YOU are oe of the privileged few”. Charles, that is, not Phil who understands and supports the application of hard sums and reality rather than delusional ignorance and received opinion the hard of science Charles chooses to believe or not. Patron of the RAE who early on debunked the renewable energy nonsense peddled in the name of climate change it makes expensively worse if from CO2, by bad law.
I believe the Queen is desperately trying to outlive her son Charles – for the good of the Empire.