 | Britain's Prince of Wales on Wednesday lambasted climate change deniers for playing "a reckless game of roulette" with the Earth's future in a speech to the European Parliament. He said that climate sceptics were having a "corrosive effect" on public opinion and asked: "How are these people going to face their grandchildren and admit to them that they failed their future?" Prince Charles was speaking to an appreciative Low Carbon Prosperity Summit which - almost without exception - rose to its feet in respect of the British monarch as he left the podium. The regent's message was characteristically shorn of the diplomatic tact often associated with such events. "I cannot see how we can possibly maintain the growth of GDP in the long term if we continue to consume our planet as voraciously as we are doing," he told MEPs and business leaders. There was a direct relationship between the resilience of natural ecosystems and national economies, he said. "If the fabric of the Earth's life-support system fragments, as it appears it may be starting to do," he went on, "if those systems become weak or even collapse - essentially, if Nature's capital loses its innate resilience - then how long will it take for our economic capital and economic systems to lose their resilience too?" Halting the destruction of rainforests was not "a lifestyle option," he added. José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, hailed the Prince's speech as "an extremely important contribution <b>...</b> | Views: 77  0 ratings |
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joi, 10 februarie 2011
Prince Charles to climate sceptics: How can you face your children?
Prince Charles to climate sceptics: How can you face your children?: "
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