Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Prince Charles, the climate hero who converted his antique Aston Martin to run on fine wine and cheese biofuel, has continued his tradition of issuing last chance warnings for major climate conferences.
‘Last-chance saloon’: Prince Charles urges Scott Morrison to attend Cop26 climate summit
Prince of Wales warns of ‘catastrophic’ impact to planet if more ambitious action not taken in Glasgow
Prince Charles has urged the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, to attend this month’s critical Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow, saying it could be the world’s last chance to take action.
In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC, the Prince of Wales was asked about Australia and Morrison as he discussed the climate crisis and the 2021 UN climate change conference, which begins at the end of the month.
The Prince warned of a “catastrophic” impact to the planet if more ambitious action was not taken on the climate, adding he was worried world leaders would “just talk” when they meet in Glasgow for Cop26.
When the BBC interviewer told the Prince of Wales that Morrison had not officially confirmed his attendance, Australia’s future monarch said he was aware he would be accused of meddling, but action was needed immediately.
“You gently try to suggest there may be other ways of doing things, in my case. Otherwise, you lot accuse me of interfering and meddling, don’t you?” the Prince said.
When asked why it was important a world leader like Morrison attend, he said: “Well, that’s what I’m trying to say all the time, and the point being that this is a last-chance saloon, literally.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/12/last-chance-saloon-prince-charles-urges-scott-morrison-to-attend-cop26-climate-summit
Prince Charles “last chance” on the 2014 Paris Agreement:-
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A new global pact on climate change, due to be signed this year in Paris, should be a “Magna Carta for the Earth”, Prince Charles has urged.
He said this year marked potentially the “last chance” to save the world from the perils of global warming, with the Paris conference and the United Nations’ plan to replace the millennium development goals with a new set of sustainable development targets. “We simply cannot let this opportunity go to waste. There is just too much at stake, and has been for far too long.”
He told a meeting of forestry and climate experts in London: “In the 800th anniversary year of the Magna Carta, perhaps this year’s agreement of the new sustainable development goals and a new climate agreement in Paris should be seen as a new Magna Carta for the Earth, and humanity’s relationship with it.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/26/prince-charles-global-pact-climate-change-magna-carta-earth
Prince Charles “last chance” on 2009 – Copenhagen Climate Conference
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The symposium of more than 60 scientists, among them 20 Nobel Laureates, is examining the latest developments about climate change.
On Thursday, they are expected to sign an agreed memorandum of their findings.
The prince told them: “I don’t know about your own experience, but it seems to me that whilst there is now only a mercifully small, if vociferous, number of people who do not accept the science of climate change and who should know better, there are still a great many who fail to recognised the real urgency of the situation.
“In so many ways we already are in the last chance saloon.”
“So, somehow, global decision makers have to be persuaded that strong, committed and co-ordinated action is needed now, not in 10 years’ time, or even in five, but now.”
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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8070131.stm
I’m sure there are more where they came from.
I think someone could make an awesome COP conference themed carnival ghost train ride. Imagine being strapped in, suddenly Prince Charles appears and warns you it is your last chance. As you’re wiping away the camembert and fine wine, Greta suddenly pops out of a box and starts screaming about her childhood. Travelling on, John Kerry slowly appears out of the murk, burbling something incomprehensible. Next a group of UN apparatchiks rush the train, thrusting random paperwork towards the passengers. Random activists appear at different points, screaming or throwing things. Finally, just as you think you can see a glimmer of light from the exit, Insulate Britain leaps in front of the train, and blocks the tracks.
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Stop it Charlie boy or you will success in making this monarchist run for the hills. You may be the King who finishes off the Commonwealth. I remain a monarchist because it is one less political snout in the trough, the Brits mainly foot the bill and HM the Queen is about the only world leader with any integrity left. She has had a few challenges lately from the Andrew fool and that pair of selfish morons in California and now she faces a future monarch forgetting that he will reign , not rule, and with the intellect largely of a peanut. Stop it Charlie, you will go blind!
2 degrees COLDER would be reason for concern…but what could we tax to fix it?
Speaking of fine wine and cheese fuels you may not be up with ‘lignocellulosic biomass’-
Rio Tinto seeks to produce low-carbon steel with biomass in pilot trial (msn.com)
It consists of yada yada and ‘purpose-grown crops’ and we all know what that means for those at the bottom of the global food chain.
Prince Charles go and talk to your plants
They will say hey its great we have more CO2
Keep doing the same we love it
I understand from trustworthy sources that he had a passionate affair with a turnip but he was in turn cuckolded by the turnip when a more intelligent potato appeared in the garden, the garden that is full of mystical rainbows and unicorns but nothing edible.
“I am firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival”
—Prince Charles’ speech at a Reception for Commonwealth Foreign Ministers, July 11, 2019
Note: July 11, 2019 + 18 months = mid-January 2021, so we passed that point-of-no-return about 9 months ago.
The Prince of Wales . . . like a child chasing that always-just-out-of-reach “last chance”, like the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
The very existence of Prince Charles is a strong argument for those who believe that republican political systems are way better than monarchies…
…strong argument for those who believe that republican political systems are way better than monarchies
Belief is all very well, but there seems to be little to support it. I give as a few supporting examples:
Venuzuela
South Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Nigeria
Libya
Burma (or whatever it’s called this week)
USA
etc
etc…
Not exactly an inspiring list, is it?
I guess you would be very happy to be a Saudi Arabian subject…
I thought the Queen was going to bypass Prince Charles and make William the King. It seems like I read something along those lines in the past.
Is that a viable option for the Queen?
Does anyone have/keep a count of how many “last chances” we’ve had in the last 20 years?
There’s a looong list somewhere.
Parliament has an undisputed right to determine the successor to HM Queen Elizabeth. The Australian Parliament is supreme in Australia. Aussie legislators may declare that for the purposes of succession to the Queen female descendants rank equally with men. They may also enact that for the purposes of succession Charles Prince of Wales is deemed never to have been born. Princess Anne, the Princess Royale, would become Queen of Australia on her mother’s death.
That sounds awfully complicated.
As I suspected: Prinny really is a dork with no sense of reality.
Gee, and to think I told my kitty that she could sniff the plants and talk to them, but not eat them because they’d give her a stomach ache…..
Personal attacks in science debate are invariably self projections, Charles is vociferous and should know better.
In the UK the Queen, god bless her, has to be on her last legs.
And very soon perhaps Charles will be king .. Lord help us then.
I do hope the Queen outlives her moron son .