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Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, has warned of the increasing problems of climate change around the world. "Young people are growing up, and the places where they place their future are under threat. That is very worrying," Prince William shared.
Furthermore, Prince William implicitly criticized the space race and the development of space tourism. He argued that the world's greatest minds should "focus on efforts to save the Earth, not on trying to find the next place to sustain life."
Prince William during an interview on the Newscast program on October 14th.
This statement is believed to be aimed at the world's richest billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson – who are running businesses aimed at commercializing space travel.
This view was expressed a day after 90-year-old actor William Shatner, known for his role as Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek films, became the oldest person to fly into space, aboard the New Shepard spacecraft of the space tourism company Blue Origin.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos made the first space flight for his company Blue Origin on July 20th.
The head of Blue Origin,billionaire Jeff Bezos- The founder of Amazon, and one of the richest people on the planet, has asserted that investing in space flights today will lay the groundwork for future generations to build a future beyond Earth.
However, in an interview with the BBC, Prince William said that he was completely uninterested in how high and far humans could fly, and he also questioned the amount of carbon consumed in space flights.
The prince emphasized that people should focus on the planet we live on rather than abandoning it to search for distant lands in outer space, and consider that as the solution for the future.
Prince William said that the British Royal Family began to take an interest in environmental issues during the time of his late grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh.
To explain his thinking, the Prince shared that his perspective on life has changed since having children, "I want the things I cherish about this place – life, nature, the environment – to endure for generations to come, not just for my children, but for all the other children in the world."
"If we're not careful, we'll rob our children of their future through our actions in the present. That's not fair to the children."
