Prince Charles Quotes About Climate Change

Quotes about: Climate Change

• The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than alive-for soya, for beef, for palm oil and for logging, feeding the demand from other countries. ... I think we need to be clear that the drivers of rainforest destruction do not originate in the rainforest nations, but in the more developed countries which, unwittingly or not, have caused climate change.

  Prince Charles

  Country, Science, Simple

• If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.

  Prince Charles

  Children, Thinking, Impact

  "Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.

• The world's forests need to be seen for what they are - giant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on a vast scale. They store carbon, which is lost to the atmosphere when they burn, increasing global warming. The life they support cleans the atmosphere of pollutants and feeds it with moisture. They act as a natural thermostat, helping to regulate our climate and sustain the lives of 1.4 billion of the poorest people on this Earth.

  Prince Charles

  Life, People, Support

  Prince Charles' Speech to a WWF gala dinner at Hampton Court Palace on the Prince's Rainforests Project, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2007.

• We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

  Prince Charles

  Thinking, Issues, Priorities

  "Prince's plea over climate change". news.bbc.co.uk. October 27, 2005.

• Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

  Prince Charles

  Inspirational, Business, Men

• I think we're going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.

  Prince Charles

  Inspirational, Thinking, Environmental

• Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is a desperately urgent need for business to play that role. Your lobbying influence can be substantial, but together, united and in large enough numbers it could prove decisive in turning the tide.

  Prince Charles

  Encouragement, Business, Power

• 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.

  Prince Charles

  World, Today, Faces

• If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't you do something about it?', when you could have done.

  Prince Charles

  Grandchildren, Thinking, Worry

• One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

  Prince Charles

  Climate, Conflict, Terrorism

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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