Spare us your environmental lectures, William
Why do the royals insist on carrying on like overgrown Gretas?
The royal family is supposed to be ‘above politics’. The queen’s studied neutrality, maintained over 70 years, is central to the endurance of this feudalistic set-up. Her descendants, however, cannot seem to keep their views to themselves.
At this weekend’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Prince William marked the occasion by lecturing his grandmother’s subjects on the ‘pressing need to protect and restore our planet’. While he noted the ‘unimaginable technological developments’ that have improved the lot of mankind over the past 70 years, he warned that the ‘impact humans have on our world’ has made the planet more ‘fragile’.
For some reason, the royals have got it into their heads that the environment and climate change are not political issues.
They carry on as if there is already a consensus that something must be done about climate change – and, though this part is often left unspoken, that ordinary people should be willing to make huge sacrifices to ‘save the planet’.
Clearly, Prince William does not intend to make many sacrifices of his own to reduce humanity’s impact on the climate. He arrived at the Jubilee party, as the royals often do, in a helicopter.
In fact, thanks to all the helicopters, private jets, gas-guzzling convoys and vast palaces at their disposal, the royal family produces a ‘carbon footprint’ that is 50 times the size of that produced by the average UK family.
The royals’ hypocrisy on the climate issue is a recurring phenomenon. Who could forget Prince Harry taking a private jet to a Google-run retreat in Sicily, where he delivered a lecture, in his bare feet, on the dangers of climate change?
Prince Charles is by far the most vocal of the royals on environmental issues. He proudly displays his green credentials by driving a cheese-powered Aston Martin and having conversations with his plants. But he also has by far the highest carbon footprint of all the royals, largely due to the staggering amount of land he owns.
The Jubilee speech was not Prince William’s first foray into green politics, either. In the past, he has bemoaned the potential impact of space tourism on the planet, he has discussed climate change with David Attenborough at the World Economic Forum, and he launched the Earthshot Prize for green-friendly innovation.
All this green advocacy might all sound harmless – charitable, even. But it is anything but.
While the likes of Prince William talk in vague soundbites about ‘restoring our planet’ and ‘taking better care of our world’, what this means in practice is becoming clearer by the day.
The Net Zero agenda represents a significant curtailment of our quality of life and an enormous constraint on economic growth. In the UK, climate policies are already contributing to a near-unprecedented spike in energy prices, causing enormous pain to households and industry.
And this is just the beginning.
The UK’s Climate Change Committee believes that more than 60 per cent of future emissions reductions will not come from improvements in technology, which might be painless and unobjectionable, but from ‘behaviour change and individual choices’.
Needless to say, these will not be voluntary changes. Efficient, cheap and proven methods of producing energy, heating our homes and moving around will be phased out, banned or taxed very heavily. More expensive and less reliable eco-friendly methods will be encouraged or mandated.
These measures aren’t the inevitable consequence of the situation we find ourselves in. They represent a political choice to place environmental concerns above our liberties and living standards.
And their impact will be felt most by the least well-off, who will be priced out of the modern conveniences that we today take for granted.
It is simply untenable for an uber-privileged member of the royal family to effectively demand harsh eco-austerity for the public while posing as above the political fray.
Prince William would do well to wind his neck in.
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Greg Spinolae
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This newer generation of feudal anachronisms tip the already strained tolerance we have for them ever closer to their own demise.
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Mark Tapley
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These Royal parasites who have lived off the productivity real workers struggling in the real economy over hundreds of years, are an extreme example of the degenerate elite who not only believe they serve a legitimate purpose but are called upon by their elevated status to lecture their subjects on the need for conservation and austerity while they themselves have not only never worked a day in their lives but collectively suck up huge tax payer resources as they represent the epitome of sybaritic sloth and an international embarrassment for Britain.
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Alan Thorpe
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I agree. There could have been one good one and that is Edward VIII. I think they got rid of him because when he became king he started to travel round the country, saw the poverty and started criticising the government. He was a thorn in the side of the royal family and they saw their privileges slipping away if he got political. Wallis was used as the reason to get rid of him. Charles and William are parroting the government policy, so their wealth is secured.
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Alan
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Don’t think that the Queen is any different just because she never says anything. Charles and William are following in the footsteps of Philip, who wanted to be reincarnated as a deadly virus to kill us all off so that he could protect the environment. The Queen has recently made statements supporting Philip, Charles and William and as we know Philip was her rock. What he said, she believes.
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Geraint Hughes
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One day i am going to give that man a lecture on RGHE being a lie that he will never forget.
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Andy Rowlands
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Can I have a front row seat please? 🙂
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Mervyn
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If it wasn’t bad enough listening to Attenborough going off about the subject, to then hear Royalty doing the same was appalling to me.
Personally, my psychic vibes indicate that after Her Majesty joins that Great Big Gig In The Sky, it’s going to leave a massive hole that nobody will ever be able to fill… certainly not by Charles and not by William.
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Artelia
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I am very concerned about what everyone is being deceived with but having Royals being deceived and being friends with influential people who are being deceived is worrying.
The population reduction agendas have been occurring in our world for a very long time. Keeping the people poor was part of it, wars were another part of it.
Rather than keeping families small, it would be better to keep families HEALTHY, morally healthy, phsysically healthy, mentally healthy and accurately informed. Rather than promoting permissiveness for perversion, it would be wise to promote marriage or celibacy. This would mean our world would flourish and it does not mean that everyone would marry and have ten children. Our relationships and friendships would flourish, the arts would be great fun for us, sports and healthy activities would flourish. Mums and dads with larger families often had maiden aunts and batchelor uncles as well as aunties and uncles who had cousins they played with. It means that we would grow up exercising self restraint, self reliance, community relations and kindness. We need celibates as priests, monks, nuns, professionals with vocations and dedicated celibates of third orders. SEX is ruining friendships, ruining marriage ruining families, harming our children, ruining society and our world and even our environment. It is ruining our lives and our psyche. Larger families and marriage are not harming our world. Population reduction methods, alongside the promotion of perversions and permissive sex are underhand and evil. They promote crimes and ruin everything.
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richard
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The majority of people are not listening anymore as they are struggling to survive.
In the real world-
India opening up a hundred coal mines.
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T. C. Clark
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Prince William….and Princess Charles need a new cause….Hmmmm…maybe the heart break of premature baldness?
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