Prince Charles: Economic Crisis Ain’t Nothing
Posted on | March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
AFP – Britains’s Prince Charles, seen here speaking at the Itamaraty Palace in Rio de Janeiro, warned Thursday …
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Prince Charles warned that the current economic crisis is nothing compared to the climate change crisis.
“The current global financial crisis is nothing compared to the impact of climate change.”
“We are, I fear, at a defining moment in the world’s history”
“The global recession is far worse than any seen for generations,” he said. “The growing demand for energy and food created the potential for political uncertainty in every continent.”
“the threat of catastrophic climate change calls into question humanity’s continued survival on the planet.”
“Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.”
“Surely at the heart of such a fresh approach must be the creation of low carbon economies.”
“The old model of industrial development is clearly failing to deliver the benefits for which many had hoped.”
“Conservation moves such as Brazil’s would buy only a little more time for alternative sources of energy production to be developed — for that, after all, is the main problem.”
“We have less than 100 months to alter our behaviour before we risk catastrophic climate change, and the unimaginable horrors that this would bring.”
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