A RIGHT ROYAL MESS WARNS PRINCE
(Published 9 September 2011)
In his first speech as president of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) UK, Prince Charles suggested that the human race faces extinction if it fails to change its lifestyle of mass consumption.
Using and wasting energy on a massive scale, with a continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the human race the greatest threat to the environment.
Referring to himself as “an endangered species”, he warned that the world is already in the “sixth extinction event”, with species dying out at a much faster rate than at any time since the death of most of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Despite campaigning for years on global warming, he said climate change was not the only problem but merely speeding up the “rapacious” destruction of natural resources like water, land and food that humans need to survive.
The Prince said if the world carries on “business as usual” then the human race itself could be in danger.
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