Published 10 February 2011, updated 14 December 2012
Britain's Prince of Wales lambasted climate change deniers for playing "a reckless game of roulette" with the Earth's future in a speech to the European Parliament. He said that climate sceptics were having a "corrosive effect" on public opinion and asked: "How are these people going to face their grandchildren and admit to them that they failed their future?" ……"I cannot see how we can possibly maintain the growth of GDP in the long term if we continue to consume our planet as voraciously as we are doing," he told MEPs and business leaders. There was a direct relationship between the resilience of natural ecosystems and national economies, he said. "If the fabric of the Earth's life-support system fragments, as it appears it may be starting to do,"…. "if those systems become weak or even collapse - essentially, if Nature's capital loses its innate resilience - then how long will it take for our economic capital and economic systems to lose their resilience too?" Halting the destruction of rainforests was not "a lifestyle option," he added. José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, hailed the Prince's speech as "an extremely important contribution, inspiring and full of substance". Speeches like Prince Charles's could help keep the momentum needed to raise public awareness, he said. To Read More....
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