HRH Speech to World Leaders at COP15

When H.R.H Prince Charles first started to speak about environmental issues over 30 years ago, many wrote him off as a crank. Thank God his upbringing developed a thick skin and he remained alive, curious and focused. One of his early advisors is another hero of mine - Laurens Van Der Post who spent years living with the bushmen of the Kalahari and wrote a classic on the subject. He also wrote the best biography of Carl Jung so it's not surprising that Charles has developed in such a balanced manner. Perhaps his time at bleak Gordonstone developed the thick skin, stubbornness and indefatigability, but it was time spent in his beloved garden with people like Van der Post and Jonathan Porritt who nurtured the immense wisdom of this man. 

He is one of the most committed "agents of change" our nation has. He has used his position to listen intently; to build relationships with people of all cultures, backgrounds, and incomes and to deploy his royal wit and influence to get things done. Thank goodness that his mother is so dedicated and vigorous because he can be so much more effective as an "agent of change`" than as a King. 

There will be thousands of words spoken now that the great and the good have arrived in Copenhagen but these sentiments expressed in this speech are likely backed by the most integrity and consistency. He may be a Prince, but I genuinely believe that he cares deeply for the the wealth of the commons - that's you and me. So if you have little appetite for more talk, take a few minutes out and view the following or read the transcript: 

After watching hours of coverage from Copenhagen over the last few days, I am convinced that we will get nowhere so long as we persist with an obsolete world view that sees me as separate from you; me as separate from and better than the rest of life. Dividing lines - of whatever kind - have to be blurred. As stated here, we don't need barricades; nor do we need guilt inducing prods to make us jump from from one mountain of thought, across the chasm of unknowing, to another. What we need are bridges of compassion. In deference to my Prince, I am British after all, I'll let him have the last few words:

This is not a problem resolvable in terms of “them and us.” For when it comes to the air we breathe and the water we drink, there are no national boundaries. We all depend on each other – and, crucially, on each other’s actions - for our weather, our food, our water and our energy......

...We cannot have capitalism without Nature’s capital – we cannot sustain our human economy without sustaining Nature’s economy...

...As our planet’s life-support system begins to fail and our very survival as a species is brought into question, remember that our children and grandchildren will ask not what our generation said, but what it did.

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