Prince uses speech at St James's Palace to single out "confirmed sceptics" and environmentally unfriendly businesses.
from The Guardian
The Prince of Wales has criticized 'corporate lobbyists' and climate change sceptics for turning the earth into a 'dying patient', in his most outspoken attack yet on the world's failure to tackle global warming.
'He attacked businesses who failed to care for the environment, and compared the current generation to a doctor taking care of a critically ill patient.
"'If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem,’ he told an audience of government ministers, from the UK and abroad, as well as businesspeople and scientists. ‘A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can’t wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can’t wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there.' …"
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