Prince Charles has recently announced many lifestyle changes he will be making in order to ensure a healthier environment for future generations. The Prince, who has always been conscious of protecting the environment, is going to begin taking commercial flights and train rides and also have his cars modified so they can run on biodiesel.
Other environmentally friendly actions Prince Charles will be taking are to make use of sustainable electricity sources at his homes and also to begin measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of his food company, Duchy Originals. Prince Charles has good motivation for making these eco-friendly changes, saying “We are consuming the resources of our planet at such a rate that we are, in effect, living off credit and living on borrowed time. So it is, of course, our children and grandchildren who will have to pay off this debt and we owe it to them and to ourselves to do something about it before it is too late.”
Apart from the good Charles’s own changes are doing for the world, his environmental attitudes are rubbing off on other members of the Royal Family and the government as well. Queen Elizabeth II, Charles’s mother, recently took a scheduled train for the first time. Although this may seem like a very small improvement, it is definitely a step in the right direction.
Environmental groups are welcoming Charles’s initiatives, saying that Prime Minister Tony Blair has not been very actively responding to environmental issues such as global warming. Because Charles is on his way to becoming King, the government will soon have a very hard time ignoring these environmental changes and begin to make some of their own.
