Prince Charles of Whales with his forecast of the world's destruction apparently is now joining the chorus of environmentalist prophets like Al Gore, Ted Danson and others. Al Gore told the audience at the Sun Dance Film Festival in 2006 that we had only 10 years to save the planet from destruction.Prince Charles said in a speech to environmentalists and industrialists at St. James Palace that due to "consumerism" the world has reached the brink of destruction. In fact, according to The Independent, the Prince the world only has 96 months to avoid "irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse, and all that goes with it."
Prince Charles also said, "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. 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. 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. 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."The royal family is one of the wealthiest families in the history of the world so it is utterly absurd for someone in his position to be declaring war on "consumerism."
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