{"id":11216,"date":"2017-11-06T12:17:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T12:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=11216"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:02:48","slug":"prince-william-blames-africans-wildlife-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/prince-william-blames-africans-wildlife-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William blames Africans for wildlife decline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prince WIlliam speaking at the Tusk dinner. Yes, that is entrepreneur Deborah Meaden in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prince William has been accused of racism<\/a><\/strong> after blaming a decline in wildlife on Africa’s growing population.<\/p>\n

Gala event<\/h2>\n

The Duke of Cambridge was speaking at a gala event for a conservation charity last week in London. He is royal patron of the Tusk Trust<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As its name suggests, the charity started by opposing the killing of animals for their tusks. However, it now has a wider conservation remit and a long list of ‘great and good’ patrons<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Wildlife and conservation are certainly important if only because many African nations depend on their wildlife for tourism.<\/p>\n

Too many Africans<\/h2>\n

The Prince proposed \u2018a strategy that will allow humans and animal species to share the environment.’\u00a0 He claimed: \u2018In my lifetime, we have seen global wildlife populations decline by over half. We are going to have to work much harder, and think much deeper, if we are to ensure that human beings and the other species of animal with which we share this planet can continue to co-exist.’<\/p>\n

The World Wildlife Fund came up with the 50% decline figure in 2014. They said it had happened in 40 years<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 The Prince is 35.\u00a0 They blamed \u2018climate change’ and \u2018the combined impacts of habitat loss and degradation, driven by unsustainable human consumption’.<\/p>\n

But not even WWF specifically fingered Africans for the decline as Prince William did:<\/p>\n

\u2018Africa’s rapidly growing human population is predicted to more than double by 2050 \u2013 a staggering increase of three and a half million people per month,’ he said. \u2018There is no question that this increase puts wildlife and habitat under enormous pressure. Urbanization, infrastructure development, cultivation \u2013 all good things in themselves, but they will have a terrible impact unless we begin to plan and to take measures now.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Duke of Edinburgh’s viral reincarnation<\/h2>\n

HRH did not suggest what sort of \u2018planning’ was needed, but it clearly involves reducing at least the rate of increase of Africans. Would his solution be as far-sighted as that of his grandfather?<\/p>\n

According to a run-down of his wit in an article in the Guardian<\/a><\/strong>, The Duke of Edinburgh said: \u2018In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation.’ Another website attributes the sentiment<\/a><\/strong> to the Duke’s foreword to a book \u2018If I Were an Animal’ (1987) by Fleur Cowles. Mercifully, we are given just the one life to live:<\/p>\n

Hebrews 9:27\u00a0 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2011 Prince Philip said<\/a><\/strong> he still believed a growing human population was the biggest challenge to conservation. He kindly ruled out mass sterilization. \u2018Voluntary family limitation’, whatever that means, was the only way to tackle what he saw as this huge problem.<\/p>\n

Overpopulation is a myth<\/h2>\n

The truth is, overpopulation, beloved of Malthusians, royal and commoner alike, is an atheist myth. Environmental scientist Erle Ellis debunks it in this article in the New Times<\/a><\/strong>. And here is a website dedicated to the subject<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 The most populous countries are the wealthiest, and as populations become wealthier, their family sizes reduce. We actually need population increase for economic growth and to support the elderly. The real population problem is Europeans not even replacing their numbers. That is leading to ageing populations and a pensions crisis.<\/p>\n

The world is not overpopulated, and certainly not overpopulated with Africans. The average population density of Africa is 39.1 inhabitants per square kilometre.\u00a0 Reference Wikipedia<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0The corresponding figure for Europe is 59.
\nReference Wikipedia<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Meanwhile, the population density (people per sq. km) in China was reported at 147 in 2016, according to the World Bank.\u00a0 Reference TradingEconomics<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Putting all that in perspective, the equivalent figure for the United Kingdom is 271.\u00a0\u00a0Reference TradingEconomics<\/a><\/p>\n

Prince William doing his bit<\/h2>\n

The royal family have certainly done their bit to achieve that UK figure. The Duchess of Cambridge is currently expecting Prince William’s third child. The Duke of Edinburgh fathered four children.\u00a0 OK, the Tusk Trust might have written most of Prince William’s speech.\u00a0 There are many similarities with positions on their website.\u00a0 But the charity does not quite blame Africans and their natural fecundity for decreases in wildlife populations.\u00a0 That appears to have been the Prince’s own idea.\u00a0 The Bible records the Lord’s creation mandate to Adam and Eve:<\/p>\n

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them (Adam and Eve), 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Lord has yet to modify that with ‘Hold on, there’s too many of you – and definitely too many black people’.<\/p>\n

The Duke of Cambridge would do well to apologise for his racism, seek humility and the word of Almighty God and learn the truth about human populations.<\/p>\n

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