It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.
PRINCE CHARLESThere is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.
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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
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Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
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Conservation must become before recreation.
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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.
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Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
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To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.
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One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
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I think we’d be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that’s going to last for ever and ever and ever.
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Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
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We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
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All I’m saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end environmentally and everywhere else for the food that is produced in a particular way.
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