Sadly, it appears that King Charles is not the only climate fanatic in the Royal Family. His elder son, Prince William, was in Boston USA in early December 2022 for a glittering ceremony awarding the latest ‘Earthshot Prize’. What is that and how does it fit in to royal climate alarmism?
‘Repair our Planet’
We know Prince William has set up – or at least become the figurehead of – the ‘Earthshot Prize’.
On his royalfoundation.com website, someone speaking for the Prince writes: ‘The Prize will incentivise change and help to repair our planet over the next ten years – a critical decade for the Earth.’
What (it’s tempting to say ‘what on earth’) does the Prince even mean by ‘Repair our Planet’? He uses the expression all the time, as do the commentators. For example: ‘Prince William and Sir David Attenborough Join Forces to Repair the Planet by 2030 With £50 Million Prize.’ An allied expression, and the subject of one of the five prizes, is ‘Fix the Climate’. But the Prince never actually defines or explains what needs ‘repairing’ or ‘fixing’ by 2030. Maybe the earth’s clutch is wearing out? Or something needs welding? Who knows? Or is it, a cynical thought maybe, just a catchy slogan, a ‘thing of nought’?
Jer 14:14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
STOVES BRING HEALTH BENEFIT
The 2022 Earthshot Prize, as 2021, had five categories. ‘Protect and Restore Nature, Clean our Air, Revive our Oceans, Build a Waste-free World and Fix our Climate.’ 2021 winners HERE.
The winners (2022 winners HERE) received £1million in prize money each. (Five £1m prizes times ten years equals £50million.) The Prince has clearly leveraged significant backing for the project. Why, we can ask the Lord in prayer, do such vanities attract so much money? Perhaps we need to read Psalm 73 again.
But that is not to detract from the enterprise of at least some of the winners. For example, under ‘Clean our Air’, Mukuru Clean Stoves from Kenya won this year with a project aimed at building a simple ‘Jiko’, as a charcoal-burning cooking stove is called in Swahili.
Containing what is in effect a barbecue built from scrap sheet steel with a grid on which to put the pot instead of resting a pot on three stones over an open fire is much more efficient, generates less fumes, which is important when cooking is done indoors, is safer for children and naturally, burns less fuel.
The company is also marketing a blend of charcoal, wood and sugercane as a cleaner, more efficient and healthier fuel.
Managing Director and visionary Charlot Magayi marketed the benefits as emitting less CO2, and even squeezed ‘repair our planet’ into her Earthshot pitch. But let us take nothing away from Charlot and Mukuru. Cooking in a pot over a fire of some sort is how food is generally prepared in rural areas of Africa. The money will enable this gifted young woman to roll out her social enterprise to benefit more people and even expand across the continent, saving fuel, money and lives.
Prov 18:16 A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.
WWF and WEF connections
However, another winner was a man in Oman who wants to trap carbon dioxide in caves. Carbon Dioxide is vital food for plants. The project looks both pointless and vain. But it is the philosophy behind Earthshot, with its pagan mother-earth overtones and its association with godless elites which is a challenge to the Kingdom of God and which we need to examine.
Firstly is the role played by Sir David Attenborough in the Netflix walrus deception in the 2019 ‘Our Planet’ series produced for WorldWide Fund for Nature (WWF) by Silverback Films. In her fascinating book Fallen Icon, arctic expert Dr Susan Crockford exposed this scandal and Sir David’s part in it in meticulous detail. It is worth buying.
On the matter of the Earthshot Prize, Dr Crockford explained some of what went on behind the scenes: ‘Just days after the release of ‘A Life on Our Planet’, (in October 2020) … Attenborough teamed up with fellow World Economic Forum supporter Prince William to announce a new “environmental” endeavour: the Earthshot Prize.
ELITE PRIZE AWARD PANEL
It was later explained that the five winners of £1 million each, to be announced on 17th October 2021 in London, would be decided by an extremely elite council that included Attenborough, Prince William and the head of the International Panel on Climate Change.’ (Fallen Icon p137)
In his staged interview at Davos with Prince William in January 2019, Sir David disclosed the value of propaganda: ‘My next series – Our Planet – will go instantly to hundreds of millions of people in almost every country on Earth via Netflix. If people can truly understand what is at stake, I believe they will give permission to business and governments to get on with the practical solutions’.
In this context, the Earthshot Prize is merely a glittery part of the message to secure the ‘permission’ the WEF needs for the Great Reset. And that was launched, if we remember, in early 2020 by King, then Prince, Charles.
See our previous article: ‘A king for the people?’ →
THE WWF CONNECTION
There was also a five-part TV series produced by the BBC and Silverback Films released in October 2021. This ‘climate crisis’ series was called ‘The Earthshot Prize: Repairing our Planet’. Dr Crockford discloses that a companion book to the film series was also released in the UK and Europe on 30th September 2021 and a week later in the US. It was entitled, ‘Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet’.
A note on the two authors says: ‘Colin Butfield is co-founder of Studio Silverback, Executive Producer of the WWF’s Our Planet project and an advisor for the Earthshot Prize. Jonnie Hughes is an award-winning natural history TV producer, co-founder of Studio Silverback, and bestselling author and co-writer of Sir David Attenborough’s A Life on Our Planet.’ The money-spinning WWF had to be there somewhere.
It should come as no surprise that Dr Crockford reports ‘Silverback Films and WWF now have a formal business relationship to produce documentary films with a conservation message.’ Expect, she says: ‘a continued onslaught of high-definition WWF propaganda, which could contain statements from Attenborough until he is no longer able to appear on camera.’
DEALING WITH WASTE
Going back to the five prizes, and in the context of stewardship, we can agree that air should be clean. God is also against waste. Both the prophet in pronouncing judgment and our Lord telling a parable assume waste is a bad thing:
Joel 1:10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Luke 15:13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
But there is a measure of vainglory in ‘Protect and Restore Nature’, ‘Revive our Oceans’, and ‘Fix our Climate.’ The Prince assumes all need doing and all are doable. Both assumptions can be challenged in all three areas.
Great Barrier Reef
For instance, there were scare programmes on TV about supposed irreversible damage to the Great Barrier Reef off Australia. But the latest data shows the coral on the reef is growing back fast. People like the new Prince of Wales and the new King ignore cyclical variations. We read:
Gen 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
The man was not to become obsessed with the garden or make a goddess out of it. Furthermore, the elite are so cocooned in their world and cushioned by the people they mix with that they have little idea that ordinary people need to earn a living and that a woodland might need to be cleared to grow crops, raise livestock, quarry minerals or build a factory.
That is not to defend wholesale clearance of the Amazon for inefficient cattle ranching. But it is to say things might not be quite so black-and-white as they seem and there may be more resilience in nature than some notable princes believe.
NET ZERO ‘ILLOGICAL’
The push for Net Zero is also ‘illogical’ according to Nick MacLeod writing in Daily Sceptic in December 2022. Using basic mathematics, Dr MacLeod showed how a series of connected statements must all be correct for Net Zero policy to be valid:
‘Start from a small number of statements that make up the Net Zero commitment.
‘1 The Earth must actually be warming.
‘2 The warming must pose a genuine and serious threat to life on Earth.
‘3 The warming must be man-made. Specifically, it must be caused by excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere arising from human activity.
‘4 The U.K.’s Net Zero policy must bring about a meaningful global reduction of atmospheric carbon. That is, it must either make a significant reduction in its own right, or it must set an example that persuades other countries to reduce their own carbon emissions, to a degree sufficient to stop the warming.’
‘For UK Net Zero to be effective, statements 1-4 must all be correct. If any one of them is false, the policy will fail, either because it doesn’t lead to sufficient carbon reduction, or because the policy wasn’t necessary in the first place.’
Even if they are all 75% true, the policy will only be 32% effective. If they are all 50/50, that figure drops to 6% (½ x ½ x ½ x ½ = 1/16).
WISE STEWARDSHIP
The Christian concept of wise stewardship is built on the Gen 2:15 verse above and what the Lord God said earlier to Adam:
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
We read this in conjunction with Psalm 24:
Psa 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Man is not to deify God’s creation, but to dress and keep it, to subdue it and have dominion over it. That may be a hard act to get right, but with wisdom from on high, humility and understanding, it must be do-able.
CREATION GROANETH
Although the Almighty has said he will never again send a worldwide flood, the Apostle Peter gives a warning that much as men might want to protect the earth, it is not here for ever:
2Pet 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Moreover, as a consequence of the fall, we cannot expect some halcyon state:
Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
CLIMATE ANXIETY
Recently, Prince William told the BBC’s Adam Fleming in an interview in October 2021 that there was ‘a rise in climate anxiety’ among young people whose ‘futures are basically threatened the whole time’.
‘It’s very unnerving and it’s very, you know, anxiety making,’ he said. It is true, there is a Thunberg-inspired young generation which now believes we are all doomed. Some are refusing to have children because of the ‘anxiety’. But William and his father are helping to stoke it up.
The Duke added‘it would be an absolute disaster if [Prince] George is sat here talking’ about saving the planet in 30 year’s time. It would indeed, but for a very different reason from that the Prince imagines. In October 2022, William sent a video to the Earthshot Summit in New York. He expected to attend, but the death of Her Majesty prevented that.
In his video he said: ‘Protecting the environment was a cause close to my grandmother’s heart, and I know she would have been delighted to hear about this event and the support you are all giving our Earthshot Finalists—the next generation of environmental pioneers.’
In his stead, the Prince asked the darling of the WEF, the then New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, to speak. She too began by reflecting on the late British monarch. “She is someone who was focused, committed, and demonstrated what could be achieved when you show fortitude and longevity,” Ms Ardern said of Elizabeth II. “We need all those same characteristics to take on the environmental challenges ahead of us.”
ROYAL IRRITATION
Was her late majesty a climate cheerleader? Well, in October 2021, the Queen opened the Senedd in Cardiff. In conversation with the Duchess of Cornwall and Elin Jones, the presiding officer, Sky reported that she spoke about the Glasgow COP26 Summit saying ‘it’s really irritating when they talk but they don’t do’.
According to the BBC, In her broadcast address to the Glasgow gathering, the Queen recalled how the ‘impact of the environment on human progress was a subject close to the heart’ of the late Duke of Edinburgh. Her Late Majesty said: ‘It is a source of great pride to me that the leading role my husband played in encouraging people to protect our fragile planet, lives on through the work of our eldest son Charles and his eldest son William. I could not be more proud of them.’
But is the ‘planet’ really as‘fragile’ as HLM assumed? Are David Attenborough and Prince William sitting solidly on science when they stir up anxiety among the young?
Bear in mind that all the predictions made by politicians and journalists about climate change are based on climate computer programmes vainly trying to model a chaotic dimly-understood system swirling around the earth. Bear in mind also that CO2 is not a poison; it provides food for the plants upon which all life eventually depends:
Psalm 104:14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Bear in mind also the deep misanthropy of figures like Sir David, the neo-fascist command and control agenda of the WEF with which all the major actors named above are involved and remember this promise of God:
Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
We should always remember that the earth was created by God to be resilient. The Bible says:
Psalm 93:1 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
PRAY!
PRAY: Thank God for human enterprise. Praise him that we are made in his image to be creative. Thank him for for giving Charlot Magayi such a gift of vision and enterprise and for bringing her before great men. But pray against the elitism of those same great men and pray they will seek the prosperity of the people rather than that of ‘the planet’.
WRITE: The Prince of Wales, Clarence House, LONDON, SW1A 1BA. Ask HRH to tell you specifically what he means by ‘repair our planet’ and ‘fix our climate’? What specific measures does he have in mind for these lofty but nebulous ambitions? (If you want to send an email, you can write to the Prince of Wales at the following address: info@clarencehouse.gov.uk An email will not have the same impact as a letter but it is cheaper, obviously, especially for anyone overseas.)
Explain that climate change is a spiritual issue. Net Zero, with its forced electric cars, banning gas central heating, compulsory heat pumps, assaults on food security, demonising of fossil fuels leading to expensive unreliable energy is based on elitism and paganism, not on the word of God in the Bible:
Prov 14:12 (cf Prov 16:25) There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Moreover, the Net Zero agenda is fully set to impoverish both his father’s subjects and emerging economies in the developing world. Is that the role of leaders? The Bible says:
Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Luke 10:27 … Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Pray for William and his father to put their faith in the Lord Jesus as King of kings.
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Excellent article. I too have joined up the dots in the same way. The IPCC’s attempts at climate modelling are primitive and you’ve neatly expressed the reality: “a chaotic dimly-understood system swirling around the Earth.” The UN/WEF climate change agenda is already causing food shortages and wrecking Dutch farms as described here: https://youtu.be/75XCxjWMu1M
Thanks for that, sir.