Prince Charles: World must act now to Save Planet

March 12, 2009


Britain's Prince Charles warned on Thursday that mankind has 100 months or less to save the planet from a climate-caused disaster.

Charles told some 150 business leaders in Rio de Janeiro that "the best projections tell us that we have less than 100 months to alter our behavior before we risk catastrophic climate change and the unimaginable horrors that this would bring."

"Any difficulties which the world faces today will be nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the worldwide economy," he said. "It will result in vast movements of people escaping either flooding or droughts, in uncertain production of foods and lack of water and, of course, increasing social instability and potential conflict."


"It will affect the well-being of every man, woman and child on our planet," the prince added, calling for urgent steps to curb deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions.

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"We have less than 100 months to save Earth," says Prince Charles

The Prince of Wales has warned that global warming has reached a 'defining moment,' and humanity has 'less than 100 months' to save the planet.

According to a report in the Telegraph, Prince Charles made this statement to 200 business leaders in Rio de Janeiro.

He delivered his most impassioned and urgent plea yet on the need for the world to unite to tackle global warming.

In a keynote speech in Brazil, the heir to the throne delivered a stark warning that if nations fail to tackle deforestation and other problems over the next eight years, then irreversible harm will be done to the environment


"As the world's economy heads further into recession, it would be easy to lose sight of the bigger picture; to commit the sin, as we say in England and if you will pardon the terrible pun, of 'not seeing the wood for the trees'. For we are, I fear, at a defining moment in the world's history," he said.

"We are facing a series of challenges so immense that we can, perhaps, be forgiven for feeling they are all too forbidding to confront," the Prince of Wales added.

In his speech, Prince Charles quoted Chico Mendes, the great Brazilian environmentalist, who said we are all "fighting for humanity."

Charles warned that the need for action was urgent.

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..sounds like 'global warning' to me..