From Prince Charles of England this past week: "As important and concerning as the global financial crisis is, its challenges and consequences will pale into insignificance when compared with the scale and extent of human misery and suffering, social and economic, if our actions to tackle climate change are too little or too late, or both."
This after the G20 leaders - meeting in the same city as the Prince and his audience - all but ignored the looming threat and failed to agree to even minimal carbon emission benchmarks. Much to the chagrin of developing nations.
The British monarchy is often belittled and ridiculed for being anachronistic and archaic. But it was that monarchy that provided a prophetic voice of wisdom. A voice that much of the world seems bent on ignoring. Seems as if we need more prophets and fewer bureaucrats.
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About Me
- Mark Gorman
- I was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, along the banks of the Susquehanna River, in the valley made up by Bald Eagle Mountain to the south, and gentle hills and valleys to the north. That place that sheltered me, gave me food and friends, and both physical and spiritual nourishment for 18 years. That is the space where I was physically and emotionally formed. Ever since growing up there . . . because of growing up there . . . I have been inexorably linked to nature . . . to the earth and to all life.