Prince Charles: 100 months to save the world

[Blue Wode]

His warning is to be delivered in a keynote speech in Rio de Janeiro this Thursday:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...les-we-have-100-months-to-save-the-world.html

Are we all doomed?

 

[Skwinty]

His warning is to be delivered in a keynote speech in Rio de Janeiro this Thursday:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...les-we-have-100-months-to-save-the-world.html

Are we all doomed?

Nope, only Bonny Prince Charlie.

 

[rjh01]

There were so many woo phrases in that link it was almost funny.

 

[Mojo]

Some believe he is an "asset"...

A couple of extra letters appear to have sneaked in there.

 

[Mojo]

According to royal aides, Prince Charles will tell business leaders that he is in South America to "listen and learn"

Which rather contrasts with this comment from Richard Dawkins:

A friend and colleague of mine was seconded into the civil service to head an important government agency, where his scientific expertise was put to good use. On one occasion, he met Prince Charles at a drinks party and the Prince promptly launched into an attack on his agency. The details don't matter here, it could have been homeopathy or GM crops or any of half a dozen bees in the Royal bonnet. The point is that my friend, as he is well qualified to do, mildly remonstrated along the lines of, "With respect, Sir, I think you'll find you are mistaken. The facts are . . ." Without another word, the Prince simply turned on his heel and walked away. An equerry immediately approached my colleague, a very distinguished scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society, and said, "One doesn't disagree with the Prince."

 

[RationalVetMed]

His warning is to be delivered in a keynote speech in Rio de Janeiro this Thursday:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...les-we-have-100-months-to-save-the-world.html

Are we all doomed?

Well thank goodness he's flown all the way to Rio to tell us how important it is to combat global warming.

Yuri

 

[Mojo]

Well thank goodness he's flown all the way to Rio to tell us how important it is to combat global warming.

Yuri

Ah, but it's not flying that causes climate change, it's expanding airports:

This is not a campaign against flying - we're trying to stop the expansion of Heathrow in the face of climate change

 

[Blue Wode]

The royal couple are also stopping off in Chile, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.

-snip-

A Clarence House spokesman said Charles and Camilla's visit to the Galapagos Islands was "timed to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin".

It will also mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species - the book in which Darwin first put forward his theories on evolution.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK...E_15236887_Prince_Charles_To_Tell_Business_Le

So, the woo-loving future Defender of Faiths, who will inherit the motto Dieu et mon droit (the divine right of the Monarch to govern - The Divine Right of Kings being a political and religious doctrine of royal absolutism which asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God) is going to be *celebrating* the anniversary of the birth of the greatest evolutionary biologist of all time?

 

[Giggywig]

So... the British Monarchy still live under the impression their opinions matter?

 

[Roadtoad]

He's there to "listen and learn." That ought to be a first.

In the meantime, given Chuckie's support for Homeopathy and its like, I'm not surprised by this move. It's simply an attempt to appear relevant. It would be quite a feat if he pulls it off.

 

[CapelDodger]

So... the British Monarchy still live under the impression their opinions matter?

What goes on in Batty Prince Charlie's head is anybody's guess.

 

[fuelair]

Isn't this the Royal who once spoke of wanting to be a Tampon?

Impresses me.

 

[CapelDodger]

So, the woo-loving future Defender of Faiths, who will inherit the motto Dieu et mon droit (the divine right of the Monarch to govern - The Divine Right of Kings being a political and religious doctrine of royal absolutism which asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God) is going to be *celebrating* the anniversary of the birth of the greatest evolutionary biologist of all time?

There's never actually been a Diving Right of Kings in Britain; that sort of thing's for Frogs and Degos. The monarchy tried for it in the 17thCE, and look what happened to Charles I and James II. The British concept of monarchy derives from a Germanic model, not from the Roman Imperial absolutist model. And a good thing too : it has served us well.

 

[Blue Wode]

Nevertheless, IMO, Charles’s involvement in celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Darwin in the Galapagos Islands clashes with his strong woo interests. As he obviously feels equally at home with science and nonsense, it doesn’t augur well for this proposed role:

Senior sources have revealed that Gordon Brown's Government wants to make more use on the foreign stage of Prince Charles's experience, expertise and contacts…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...les-we-have-100-months-to-save-the-world.html

 

[ectoplasm]

Which rather contrasts with this comment from Richard Dawkins:

A friend and colleague of mine was seconded into the civil service to head an important government agency, where his scientific expertise was put to good use. On one occasion, he met Prince Charles at a drinks party and the Prince promptly launched into an attack on his agency. The details don't matter here, it could have been homeopathy or GM crops or any of half a dozen bees in the Royal bonnet. The point is that my friend, as he is well qualified to do, mildly remonstrated along the lines of, "With respect, Sir, I think you'll find you are mistaken. The facts are . . ." Without another word, the Prince simply turned on his heel and walked away. An equerry immediately approached my colleague, a very distinguished scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society, and said, "One doesn't disagree with the Prince."

I guess society has progressed somewhat. Dawkin's friend just gets a reprimand from the equerry, in the bad old days he would have been imprisoned in the tower.

 

[Roadtoad]

I guess society has progressed somewhat. Dawkin's friend just gets a reprimand from the equerry, in the bad old days he would have been imprisoned in the tower.

And yet, thankfully, it's not an absolute monarchy. Given Chuckie's disdain for real science, one could only imagine the resulting disaster. As things stand, Homeopathy has gained a foothold it could only have dreamed of before. One can only hope that the damage is recognized before there's much of it.

 

[luchog]

And yet, thankfully, it's not an absolute monarchy. Given Chuckie's disdain for real science, one could only imagine the resulting disaster.

Unfortunately, we don't have to imagine it.

 

[Roadtoad]

Unfortunately, we don't have to imagine it.

Ouch.

 

[six7s]

So, the woo-loving future Defender of Faiths, who will inherit the motto Dieu et mon droit ...

Maybe Chuck and/or his acolytes think/hope/pray that he's the new and improved Cnut* - able to turn the tides by royal decree

"Given both the Prince's position as a future head of state and his personal commitment to protecting the environment, we believe he can have a real impact abroad"

* is that the right spelling?

 

[RationalVetMed]

Maybe Chuck and/or his acolytes think/hope/pray that he's the new and improved Cnut* - able to turn the tides by royal decree

Oh tish and pish (no offence!). Canute (or whatever the current spelling is) never believed he could turn the tides by commanding it. The legend is that he attempted the feat as a demonstration to sycophantic nobles that, despite their fawning suggestion that he was all powerful, mightier than the sun and the sea etc, he was, in fact, fallible*. He was conducting a scientific experiment to test the claims of his supporters - a dark age sceptic.

Yuri

* though, in fairness to said nobles, he probably would have personally disembowelled anyone else who had suggested such a thing. Well, he was a man of his age after all.