Human Race Threatened By Climate Change, Prince Charles Warns

The Prince of Wales delivered a dramatic plea for action to avert the “unimaginable horrors” of climate change today, warning that catastrophic global warming now threatens humanity’s continued survival .

“We are, I fear, at a defining moment in the world’s history,” Prince Charles told an audience of around 150 Brazilian businessmen and local politicians in Rio de Janeiro, adding that “the threat of catastrophic climate change calls into question humanity’s continued existence on the planet.”

Today , as a new study by some of Britain’s top climate change specialists predicted that up to 85% of the Amazon rainforest could be lost if greenhouse gas levels were not controlled, the prince said global warming threatened “our very ability to survive”.

“It will result in vast movements of people escaping either flooding or droughts, in uncertain production of food and lack of water and in increasing social instability and potential conflict,” he said. “We have very little time left if we want to sustain life on Earth as we actually know it.”

The current financial slump would be “nothing” compared to the “full effects which global warming will have on the world economy,” he said.

“We have less than 100 months to alter our behavior before we risk catastrophic climate change,” Prince Charles added.

Guardian