FUN-LOVING PRINCE CHARLES Philip Arthur George Windsor, with his grinning duchess at his side, is as I write returning from a gruelling trip to South America in order to save the world. Although the world still needs saving, his tour has been a resounding success, by all accounts, showing that even at the age of 61, which is rather getting on for a dashing prince, he can still cut the mustard on the Samba floor, when chatting to plants in tropical gardens, when encouraging free enterprise among semi-naked Indians who make rubber hats out of yucca root gum and when naming tortoises. Indeed, one hardly sees a difference today in relation to the snazzy prince who went to Brazil thirty years ago
THE PRINCE CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES believes that we only have 100 months to save the planet, otherwise it will be “too late”, and “all will be lost”. Addressing an audience of carefully-chosen invited common folk at a banquet in the Itamaraty Palace in Rio de Janeiro, our future king pointed out that an increase in temperature of 2 degrees centigrade over the next 100 years would be “catastrophic” and “frankly damaging” to our environment.
MY OWN OPINION is obviously not based on such experience as is possessed by the Prince of Wales, our future ruler. I know little about the world of nature; indeed, I have never even spoken to a single plant, let alone been able to hear what they say, as was the gift of Charles’ ancestor King George III, who belonged to those great English mad and stubborn monarchs described by G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville, in the authorative masterpiece The Book of Kings and Queens of Britain, such as “like his father, he was stupid” (George I, page 173), “George II was not only stupid and easily bullied, by his wife (…)” (page 175), and George III himself, recently defended by Prince Charles himself as a decent king, yet considered as “mental” by his contemporaries on various occasions (pages 178-182). This was when porphyria was diagnosed in the males of the royal family.
AS I WAS SAYING, my own opinion is in line with that of Nigel Lawson’s in An Appeal to Reason. It is surely extremely arrogant to believe that if we all turn the lights out for an hour on a Saturday afternoon or re-use our supermarket bags for a couple of times then we can affect the future of humanity.
FAR MORE IMPORTANT FOR US IN MODERN BRITAIN is Prince Charles’ recent address to Britain’s scientists. He warned that Britain will face a catastrophic burden if the threat of dementia is left unchecked. The Prince stated that rapid advances in expertise were vital to stave off the disastrous economic and social repercussions of the growing incidence of dementia.
ON A NOTE OF INEVITABILITY, he added: “Sadly, dementia will have an even greater impact as, in the future, the risk of dementia increases as people live longer, and the emotional, social and economic burden we all will face if this threat is left unchecked will be catastrophic”.
THE PRINCE CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES believes that we only have 100 months to save the planet, otherwise it will be “too late”, and “all will be lost”. Addressing an audience of carefully-chosen invited common folk at a banquet in the Itamaraty Palace in Rio de Janeiro, our future king pointed out that an increase in temperature of 2 degrees centigrade over the next 100 years would be “catastrophic” and “frankly damaging” to our environment.
MY OWN OPINION is obviously not based on such experience as is possessed by the Prince of Wales, our future ruler. I know little about the world of nature; indeed, I have never even spoken to a single plant, let alone been able to hear what they say, as was the gift of Charles’ ancestor King George III, who belonged to those great English mad and stubborn monarchs described by G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville, in the authorative masterpiece The Book of Kings and Queens of Britain, such as “like his father, he was stupid” (George I, page 173), “George II was not only stupid and easily bullied, by his wife (…)” (page 175), and George III himself, recently defended by Prince Charles himself as a decent king, yet considered as “mental” by his contemporaries on various occasions (pages 178-182). This was when porphyria was diagnosed in the males of the royal family.
AS I WAS SAYING, my own opinion is in line with that of Nigel Lawson’s in An Appeal to Reason. It is surely extremely arrogant to believe that if we all turn the lights out for an hour on a Saturday afternoon or re-use our supermarket bags for a couple of times then we can affect the future of humanity.
FAR MORE IMPORTANT FOR US IN MODERN BRITAIN is Prince Charles’ recent address to Britain’s scientists. He warned that Britain will face a catastrophic burden if the threat of dementia is left unchecked. The Prince stated that rapid advances in expertise were vital to stave off the disastrous economic and social repercussions of the growing incidence of dementia.
ON A NOTE OF INEVITABILITY, he added: “Sadly, dementia will have an even greater impact as, in the future, the risk of dementia increases as people live longer, and the emotional, social and economic burden we all will face if this threat is left unchecked will be catastrophic”.
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