Prince Charles expresses sympathy with Greta Thunberg over inaction on climate change

Ahead of the forthcoming COP 26 climate conference in Glasgow next month, Prince Charles has been critical of world leaders for failing to do enough to tackle climate change.

Speaking during a BBC interview broadcast on the Radio 4 Today programme this morning, Prince Charles expressed sympathy with climate change activists such as 18-year-old Greta Thunberg, who has previously ridiculed the approach of world leaders saying they “[just]talk, blah, blah”.

The Prince of Wales said, “I totally understand, and because nobody would listen, they see their future being totally destroyed”, adding of world political leaders, “They just talk. And the problem is to get action on the ground, which is what I have been trying to do for the last 40 years”.

Prince Charles, who revealed that he has changed his diet to not eating meat two days a week, avoiding dairy products on a Monday, alongside running his old Aston Martin on surplus English white wine, said, “I have always felt that we were trained to believe that nature is a separate thing from us and that we can exploit, control, or suppress everything about it, without suffering the consequences”.

He continued, “It is already beginning to be catastrophic, because nothing in nature can survive these extremes of weather”.

Amidst groups such as Insulate Britain adopting more radical protest strategies in recent weeks, such as gluing themselves to major roads, the Prince was critical of such tactics, arguing, “It isn’t helpful I think to do it in a way that alienates people. So I totally understand the frustration. The difficulty is how do you direct that frustration in a way that is more constructive rather than destructive. So the point is that people should really notice how despairing so many young are”.