Prince Charles calls obscure language on environmental issues ‘unhelpful’ and urges the agricultural industry to ‘do things differently’
- Prince of Wales, 72, called for ‘a willingness to do things differently’ as the agricultural industry faces significant change in an article for Farmers Weekly
- Heir said that obscure language around environmental issues is ‘unhelpful’
- Comes as Charles prepares to accept a lifetime achievement award from the farming industry publication
Prince Charles has said using obscure language around environmental issues is ‘unhelpful’ and risks alienating those who need to hear it.
The Prince of Wales, 72, called for ‘a willingness to do things differently’ as the agricultural industry faces significant change, in a piece he penned for the upcoming issue Farmers Weekly magazine.
‘In this new world, the relationship between farmers and carbon, water and biodiversity, will be of fundamental importance, with bigger challenges and new opportunities,’ the heir to the throne wrote.
The Prince of Wales, 72, called for ‘a willingness to do things differently’ as the agricultural industry faces significant change, in a piece he penned for the upcoming issue Farmers Weekly magazine.
‘So it is often unhelpful, perhaps, that much of the language being used to describe the situation and the potential remedies is so obscure, sometimes appearing as if it has been chosen to hide the real message and alienate those who most need to hear it,’ he added.
He continued to add that common environmental terms such as biodiversity and agroforestry, often used by scientists and NGOs, fail to communicate practical messages.
It comes as the future king, thought to currently be based at his country home, Highgrove House in Gloucestershire with wife Camilla, 73, prepares to accept a lifetime achievement award from the farming industry publication.
The prince has a long-standing interest in the natural world and will receive the award from Farmers Weekly due to his contributions to British farming.
It comes as the future king, thought to currently be based at his country home, Highgrove House in Gloucestershire with wife Camilla, 73, prepares to accept a lifetime achievement award from the farming industry publication
Earlier this month Charles said it was ‘sheer madness’ to continue on a path of destroying the planet.
At a virtual event hosted by the Royal Society, he warned humans had already reached the point where there is not enough nature to meet our demands – and that while nature could recover if given the chance, the window to do so ‘is closing fast’.
‘We all of us have a fiduciary duty to life on Earth, for we hold this planet in trust, having a duty of care that is absolute.
‘Yet we know that, day by day, strand by strand, we are rapidly destroying the fabric of the natural world for ourselves and children and grandchildren, and testing this precious planet to destruction.’
A long time environmental campaigner, the Duke of Cornwall also guest edited an edition for Country Life where he urged the nation to draw on its strength that has seen it fight coronavirus and ‘pool our efforts’ to tackle ‘the other deeply troubling problems our planet faces: global warming, climate change and the heartbreaking loss of biodiversity.’
He added: ‘We have a very short window of opportunity, which must not be squandered, in which to seize something good from this crisis and, as we rebuild, to put Nature, our planet and our children and grandchildren first.’
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