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“We start this new decade knowing that it is the most consequential period in history,” says Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge. Inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s “Moonshot,” he calls on everyone to rise to our greatest challenge ever: the “Earthshot.” A set of ambitious objectives for the planet, the Earthshot goals seek to protect and restore nature, clean the air, revive oceans, build a waste-free world and fix the climate — all in the next decade. To do it, we’ll need people in all corners of the globe working together with urgency, creativity and the belief that it is possible to repair the Earth.
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Crystal Elk
October 10, 2020 at 11:56 pm
What a Great gentleman Prine William! I’m with you!🇨🇦
💞🌐📷📽️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐💯🌅🌍💙🌏💜🌎🌄🕊️💖🌌😉
Rost Mandzak
October 11, 2020 at 12:03 am
His family can start by making their house smaller ? Not having a battalion of soldiers protect them day,and night paid for by the tax payers ?
Nayeli Elyan
October 11, 2020 at 12:36 am
They kinda do need the protection and I’m sure the soldiers love their job and paycheck.
Darc Syster
October 11, 2020 at 12:08 am
The fundamental problem is that massive sociological change usually takes about 50 years. There are multiple reasons for that, but in this case, there’s a big one and it’s called “The Sam Vimes Theory of Boots”. If everyone bought electric cars, we’d cut greenhouse gases enormously. But many people can’t afford to buy new cars. They get their cars second hand, sometimes fourth-hand. Thus they are stuck driving the most polluting vehicles around. These are not an insignificant number. The same applies to upgrades to houses to make them more energy efficient. Those who can afford it, have mostly already done it, but too many can’t afford it. So things like government rebates simply aren’t going to cut it. If we want to do this, governments around the world are going to need to throw vast sums of money at people to allow them to participate when they can not otherwise afford to participate. That is the biggest challenge here.
lizz moon
October 11, 2020 at 12:08 am
Where is my pillow? 1st he asked African people to stop having babies while he continued to make babies, than he looked down on his sister in law because of her social status. That was enough for me to say next. Changes start at home. Put your money where your mouth is will and you might not come across as a hypocrite.
David Franklin
October 11, 2020 at 12:21 am
I realize this message isn’t going to be well received, but climate change has been happening for billions of years. Mankind is just the spot on the head of a pin compared to the evolution of the earth. The earth has a built in mechanism to deal with things like heat and cold. Mankind hasn’t or couldn’t have much of an affect. When you take into account the physical forces like the oceans and tectonic activity, things like the heat or gas engine emissions from cars have almost no affect whatsoever. If you think taxing people is the answer, it wont be. Nothing we can do will change it. The people who lecture us about rising sea levels are getting rich off their environmental politics. We have been sold a bag of horse manure and told its gold. It isn’t.
ailingfanatic
October 11, 2020 at 12:41 am
David Franklin Whether that’s true or not a lot of the solutions to climate change are useful in multiple ways. Clean, sustainable energy for example. Better air quality and we won’t run out of resources in the long run.
ailingfanatic
October 11, 2020 at 12:42 am
Though i do agree yes of course we can’t destroy the planet. “The planet will be fine, it’s the people that are fucked.”
David Franklin
October 11, 2020 at 12:50 am
@ailingfanatic My point is, you can’t solve climate change. It is impossible. Only man has the arrogance to think he can change a system that has been in place for billions of years and will be for billions more. And all the clean sustainable energy require more coal and gas plants to provide electricity for cars. Look at California. They are having blackouts because they can’t provide the energy to provide the necessary electricity for the millions that live in the state. Multiple it by a factor of 100 and you will have the whole country running out of electricity. It will take many decades if not hundreds of years to stop using fossil fuel for energy. I was told when I was in high school in the 70s we would run out of oil. Fast forward 50 years and we have more oil than ever before. Until oil and gas become scarce, it will be with it as an energy source. And it won’t affect the climate.
ailingfanatic
October 11, 2020 at 1:10 am
David Franklin And yet Ive read comments under this video talking about places having electricity surplus that need to sell off their power to neighbouring states. Maybe we can’t fix it quickly, but like you said the oil and gas will eventually run out. Why wait for that to happen instead of finding a solution now?
credenza1
October 11, 2020 at 12:26 am
This hollow moral posturing by the Royals is becoming tiresome.
PresidentialWinner
October 11, 2020 at 12:38 am
Is becoming? It’s been going on for thousands of years dude
USAOnlineCasinos
October 11, 2020 at 12:29 am
Ted social just warrior talks
USAOnlineCasinos
October 11, 2020 at 12:32 am
Funny the people contributing the most to climate change r the loudest ones lecturing us… go away tool
M F
October 11, 2020 at 12:43 am
Amazing man. Future King. A gift to mankind. His knowledge in this topic shows in his intense passion. Bravo Prince William! 👏👏👏 All the best on EarthShots coz we ALL need it to succeed! 👍👍👍
Hackers Are Satanist
October 11, 2020 at 12:50 am
For those saying over population is the issue. I’d like to point out the hustle in educational training for becoming a scientist, engineer, doctor, lawyer, ect… That takes years of drive to push into joining together for creating a better future. Over population isn’t the issue. Cutting cost of educational prep is what’s needed.
Felicity Muench
October 11, 2020 at 12:51 am
Education is one key to changing our drastic situation. Connecting kids, educators and industry to create opportunities for change and growth is possible. One Voice 4 Change is one of many organizations striving to make a difference worldwide. We all have a voice.
Marta Nika
October 11, 2020 at 12:51 am
Prince William’s has turned out just as good as his mom would have wanted him to and i bet Diana is looking over both her son’s and her grandchildren always ..
J F
October 11, 2020 at 12:53 am
What a P.O.S.
Hackers Are Satanist
October 11, 2020 at 12:56 am
Water Resources Engineering
YouFirst
October 11, 2020 at 12:58 am
Thought his not prince any more?!!!
William Whiting
October 11, 2020 at 1:02 am
To achieve his goals they need to ,dare I say it. Depop.
Claudette Shock
October 11, 2020 at 1:05 am
I know this may sound weird or strange to most. Stop making processed food, stop feeding people process food, stop feeding the animals processed food. Have a low-carb diet, High vegetable diet, and moderate protein and healthy fat diet. This way we can beat the Coronavirus 19. This will give you a stronger immune system and more intelligence. It helps a great deal. Love and bless you all. I hope Prince William sees this. If you add up all the good results. It’d be dramatic.
Edgard Angel
October 11, 2020 at 1:06 am
The people of the world are not aware of the damage we are doing to our planet, we realize that not even the pandemic does not affect many inprudent people, the only way is to enforce the law, all people will be sanctioned for not complying with hygiene to preserve the ecology, people who are throwing garbage (plastic bottles bags etc.) fine with going to serve community work to clean the beach, parks, recreation centers, the manufacture of all products derived from plastic have to be fully determined, if they continue to put on the market We consume the products, let’s make a difference, remove the plastic from the market and the problem ends,
Questionable Context
October 11, 2020 at 1:08 am
Those trees are still younger than his grandma.
delta7
October 11, 2020 at 1:13 am
The best for planet earth is not to be habitated by homosapians!
Michelle Miller
October 11, 2020 at 1:18 am
Liar liar pants on fire
Michelle Miller
October 11, 2020 at 1:19 am
Your reptilian grandmother who had your mother murdered?
epSos.de
October 11, 2020 at 1:22 am
King has spoken.
He too does not know how old exactly his grandmother is 🙂
Climate wreaking must stop.
nubianfx
October 11, 2020 at 1:24 am
who on earth is downvoting this?
palemoonlight96
October 11, 2020 at 1:26 am
I truly believe that he will be a great king one day, genuinely using his voice for something good
XxMyLameUserNamexX
October 11, 2020 at 6:42 pm
I love his posh voice. It’s relaxing.
Iftaab Bostan
October 11, 2020 at 6:45 pm
When’s he moving out of his mansion?
ian marshall
October 11, 2020 at 11:27 pm
if he did move out of the mansion it would still be there and would require maintenance and heating its part of british history and should remain so for another 1000 years or more.
its almost impossible to improve the efficiency of grade one listed building.
Daniel E.
October 11, 2020 at 6:51 pm
Baldy wants to save the planet even though he uses lots of carbon traveling
Mauri Wiener
October 11, 2020 at 9:36 pm
Agree. But let’s focus on reforestation, that is the key to saving the planet. Carbon is a very amazing and amazing organic element that we need to survive.
D From Edmonton
October 11, 2020 at 7:09 pm
He is talking about depopulation which means killing you and me get it!!
Craig Hughes
October 11, 2020 at 7:12 pm
The issue is humanity is locked into a never-ending dependence on fossil fuels. Until governments and corporations decide to release the technology that will free us from this cycle of dependence that only kills the planet and lines their pockets we can expect only more of the same.
Erin James
October 11, 2020 at 8:10 pm
Its a crime, that so much is being used and misused, to manipulate people into being completely cornered. To go back to pre-industrialation would take extreme worldwide devastation and compromise. The oligarchs wont let go of their death grip on money and power. Smooth words are being said in assumptive tones, to appeal to our humanity. But what is good for our world is NOT what they have in mind. They are hypocrites!! Their hypocrisy bleeds down into the least of us all in a dog eat dog world. You are right! There is no honest effective change, unless they are no longer in control. Society is far too indoctrinated to allow that. Their plan will only bring harm and undue suffering on the masses. And they know that well.
HexaRecter
October 11, 2020 at 7:46 pm
it will be king william when the queen die.
Katrina Mann
October 11, 2020 at 7:56 pm
The hypocrisy is unreal..care so much for ancient trees. Then why were u cutting them down all weekend.. oh ya, those weren’t on royal crown land. So disgusting.
Hackers Are Satanist
October 11, 2020 at 9:57 pm
We cut our trees here in Louisiana because of the hurricanes. So judgmental Darling…. Gonna have to get used to some reassuring, it seems.
Dudley Harrington
October 11, 2020 at 8:23 pm
The latest “war on whatever”. Only now they’ve perfected it into climate change and viruses that can’t be seen or disproven except by silencing any opposition. If you were really concerned about science and the truth, you would have no need for censorship of any opposition. The truth would always prevail. It’s only when you have the hidden agenda of instituting global government that you need to censor any opposition. It’s so easy to provide “leadership” for such global issues, when what you’re really asking is for governments around the world to send billions of dollars to support your agenda. Your agenda is not a secret. It’s clearly published in the U.N. Agenda 21 /30 including the reduction of the global population by a third or more. And of course, you would be one of those deciding who lives and who dies. It all sounds great if you expect to be one of those unelected leaders of the global government and extended financial Ponzi scheme you currently control. I don’t expect you’d be quite so excited about that plan if you expected to draw the short straw in all your grand plans for saving the world.
spikedpsycho
October 11, 2020 at 8:30 pm
The private jet posse is telling us to give up our cars?
Mattie H
October 11, 2020 at 8:48 pm
I have always adored him.
Ana Carolina
October 11, 2020 at 9:43 pm
Well done, Prince William!!!! I’m so proud 👑❤
schmotta schmotta
October 11, 2020 at 9:52 pm
YOUR GRAMMA’S A CROOK.
schmotta schmotta
October 11, 2020 at 9:54 pm
THE SCIENCE IS A FRAUD! GET A SHRINK TO DEAL WITH YOUR HATRED TOWARD HUMANITY. STOP CHEMTRAILS. PLENTY OF LAND FOR ALL…….
Carl
October 11, 2020 at 10:30 pm
I’m not sure I understand
Akainu Sakazuki94
October 11, 2020 at 10:01 pm
Whatever it takes to save our futur generation
Sheej-isms
October 11, 2020 at 10:10 pm
Sharing Best Practices is one way to go about Recovery ….since You said Banking with respect to the United Kingdom … i would suggest the Best Practice of adopting the Simple Interest system followed by Islamic Banking in the GCC nations …simple interest during these very difficult times will help the world revive and recover faster from this present crisis …and second thing i would suggest is Organic Farming methods to be adopted by the Globe as a whole …a state in India has shown how everyone in Sikkim uses only organic methods to grow food ….such examples should be copied and emulated and hopefully in 10 years we can be on our path to recovery and repair …Bestest Wishes Always 🙏🏾
Willie Minnaar
October 11, 2020 at 10:30 pm
“Five, one million-pound prizes will be awarded each year for the next ten years, providing at least 50 solutions to the world’s greatest environmental problems by 2030.”
“The Earthshot Prize is about much more than awarding achievement – it is a decade of action to convene the environmental world with funders, businesses and individuals to maximise impact and take solutions to scale, to celebrate the people and places driving change; and to inspire people all over the world to work together to repair the planet.”
JER JOS
October 11, 2020 at 10:38 pm
God is calling on us to come back to him, listen to the trumpet from heaven. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through him.
Peirithoüs
October 11, 2020 at 10:43 pm
Love him so much ! What a great message Will! Repair our planet before it’s too late🌎 🌍 🌏 💚💚 …..now I gotta go look for some thousand years old oak trees!!😂🌳🌳🌳🌲🌳🌲
titus titus
October 11, 2020 at 10:46 pm
Eat shi- prince boy. Let loose all the children your family has locked up in the castle.
KaimetsuVox
October 11, 2020 at 11:01 pm
The next MASKLESS MARCH in London will be on October 17th at 1PM, beginning at Speaker’s Corner. If you’re reading this and from the UK, please come down. Let’s send them a cleae message; we reject your NEW NORMAL, we reject your MANDATORY VACCINES, we reject your TRACK AND TRACE, we reject your LOCKDOWNS, we reject your PLANDEMIC!
FOR MORE DETAILS;
WHY WE’RE FIGHTING; http://www.plandemic2.com
Please share wherever you can.
Greywolf.
October 11, 2020 at 11:23 pm
Basic problem on this earth Overpopulation so Prince William keep your pants on.
rbzstsv
October 12, 2020 at 12:37 am
Keep trying to save face after getting caught with those underage kids. The world needs less people like you
jess pace
October 12, 2020 at 1:18 am
Great idea
Ahimsa42
October 12, 2020 at 10:27 am
“A landmark global study into the production of greenhouse gas emissions from over 38,000 farms has pointed to one simple way we can reduce our global warming woes — by avoiding meat and dairy products. The paper published in Science today shows that without these industries, global farmland use could be reduced by more than 75 per cent. That’s an area the size of Australia, the US, China and the EU combined. And what’s more, the study shows we don’t even really need meat anyway.
The researchers claim meat and dairy provide just 18 per cent of our required calories and 37 per cent of our protein. Despite the pitiful nutritional figures, the livestock industry accounts for a massive 83 per cent of farmland in the world and produces 60 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions in farming. The study shows that getting our protein from plants such as peas is far better for the environment than farming livestock. Even the lowest impact beef-producing farm would be responsible for six times more greenhouse gases and 36 times more land than a pea farm producing the same amount of protein.
A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification (of ocean water), eutrophication (the build up of nutrients in water bodies which destroys wildlife), land use and water use,” Oxford University researcher Joseph Poore told The Guardian today.
Over all, the researchers estimated a vegan world would produce 49 per cent less greenhouse gas emissions from food, 50 per cent less acidification, 49 per cent less eutrophication, and reduce water use by 19 per cent. “It (going vegan) is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car,” Mr Poore added. “Agriculture is a sector that spans all the multitude of environmental problems. Really it is animal products that are responsible for so much of this.”
cactus loves balloons
October 12, 2020 at 10:28 am
Agreed. I’ll do my part. It’s my planet too.
Steve Bartley
October 12, 2020 at 11:10 am
Privilege is a wonderful thing to pivot on. Go away.
Linda Fraser
October 12, 2020 at 11:18 am
Your father and grandfather want the world population to decrease to half a billion. You are finding new ways to try and achieve that.
Irene Klos
October 12, 2020 at 11:21 am
Stop
Lydia Malone
October 12, 2020 at 11:39 am
You would think he would be more concerned about the poor people in his country getting poorer from the lockdown. Or how about the victims of the rape gangs where so much of the governing class looked the other way. But the environment is much safer because it’s so vague and he can play with the other global Elites around the world and claim he’s not being political. Clean up Britian first!
Raddie Mo
October 12, 2020 at 6:35 pm
Isn’t that more of a job for the politicians? I’m American so I don’t understand British politics so I’m genuinely asking
Lydia Malone
October 12, 2020 at 6:41 pm
@Raddie Mo that’s the whole point. The Royal offspring have been involved with politics for years. They just cast it in terms of issues they are concerned about. Charles posed for a photo op with Greta at Davos. You can’t get more political than that. He’s been doing a lot of passive aggressive politics for years. William gave a ridiculous speech at the bafta awards that was nothing but political correctness on steroids. Evidently people should be rewarded based on the color of their skin. so if they’re going to be involved like that why not be involved for the victims of the grooming gangs in Rotherham? How about Justice for them? how about the poor that are just getting poorer under the ridiculous lockdown?
Raddie Mo
October 12, 2020 at 6:47 pm
@Lydia Malone I understand where your coming, they could do more but I think William and Kate are more known for playing it safe.. Charles gets lots of slack for as you say “passive aggressive politics”.. I remember the Greta meeting he had, and how much everyone held their noses at him. The monarchy is a sham but I do understand a need for people who give inspiration unlike politicians who are crooked on both sides like here in America 😷
Priyankita Pant
October 12, 2020 at 12:32 pm
He says, ‘I am simply the latest in a line that can be traced back generations.’ I ask aren’t we all?
Adam
October 12, 2020 at 3:07 pm
Yeah but most of us don’t have the blood of millions on our hands
Rebecca Brown
October 12, 2020 at 8:44 pm
He is not suggesting otherwise. It is a reference to the age of a living thing, the oak tree, and how it has sustained life over centuries. Why do people want to twist and spin.
durtisdanger
October 12, 2020 at 10:54 pm
He’s implying that his bloodline is more important than yours.
Rebecca Brown
October 12, 2020 at 11:04 pm
@durtisdanger that was not MY take away message. I don’t really care how long his ancestry is at Windsor Castle, but the ancient oak tree as a metaphor of nature’s importance worked for me.
Justin Kincaid
October 12, 2020 at 1:01 pm
The only reason that your family is “royalty “ is because they took it by force. The victors always write the history that they want told, not the truth.
Eve Northrop
October 12, 2020 at 2:09 pm
i agree. william please don;’t push the royal family as if divine. you aint. your ancestors were loathed and feared. the bill gates of their time. if you truly want change and i believe you do, start will giving back.. your family has been instrumental in looting from both their own people and those abroad, called empire. give back some of the 15 homes you will have or inherit – you only need one. get real, get compassionate, get honest. you can’t have a lovely planet without sacrifice as we older wiser people already know. touch the earth william with your soul. thanks
Adam
October 12, 2020 at 3:09 pm
Eve Northrop you’re so stupid you think bill gates is the problem, i bet you think you’re ‘awake’ too when what you really are is another uneducated easily led bu algorithm zuckerberg product, Gates isn’t even significant, old European power is though
Lydia Malone
October 12, 2020 at 6:43 pm
@Adam tell that to the paralyzed children in Africa from his vaccines.
Margaret Lavender
October 12, 2020 at 8:36 pm
EXACTLY!!
Rebecca Brown
October 12, 2020 at 8:41 pm
He is referencing the age of an oak tree and you turn it into this?
Poplìon Andrew
October 12, 2020 at 2:04 pm
Banning private jets and yachts and luxury cars will accelerate more youth unemployment. Leading change from within — change your attitude, and your approach — compare yours, not others — substitution effect, not displacement nor replacement or redundancy. “Dream” King Martin Luther US President once encouraged to all who has fear of wisdom, not fear of man. Are you one of those warriors who conquest the quest for thirst of power of knowledge based question, or just reluctant to speak up? Guard thyself with thou full armor for thine spirit fore!
Marcell
October 12, 2020 at 2:40 pm
This clip is a cryptic message.
Talking about “Operation Moonshot” –
Meanwhile, in Downing street leaked documents suggests the new “Operation Moonshot” will be vaccinating 10M sheeple day.
Save the planet in a decade. Earth shots. Releasing “our” potential. We have no choice but to succeed.
Hasulee Induwara
October 12, 2020 at 3:11 pm
his eyes are so blue its almost distracting
Simonas Pacauskas
October 12, 2020 at 4:04 pm
what do kings/queens do these days?
Hackers Are Satanist
October 12, 2020 at 6:59 pm
Oh baby… Only if you knew.
Christy Nicholas
October 12, 2020 at 4:07 pm
I only wish people who had power in industry listened to you. But as noble as these ideas are, and I agree with them 100%, greed has been winning for centuries and won’t be easily derailed.
Margaret Lavender
October 12, 2020 at 8:39 pm
Christy Nicholas. EXACTLY! SO very true.
John Shields
October 12, 2020 at 4:15 pm
Great speech. Very motivational. Together we can be kinder to our planet and it’s inhabitants. Every little planet friendly effort will amount to a huge improvement when practiced by many earth dwellers. Keep up the good work.
GreenM&M_11
October 12, 2020 at 4:26 pm
Excellent video ❤️🧡💛💚💙
Gerhard Hermann
October 12, 2020 at 6:56 pm
Mankind invented a lot of usefull things like republics and democracy.
Pat Riot
October 12, 2020 at 7:59 pm
Lol. This guy is younger than me but I witnessed him age a generation beyond me, right before me eyes… Shelf life is shorter I suppose.
MakaveliTHEdon
October 13, 2020 at 12:48 am
Soul Sold That’s Why! He Is An Empty Vessel Reading A Script & Going Aslong To Get Along!
Charles Fan
October 12, 2020 at 7:59 pm
Finalfuckendly
Rebecca Brown
October 12, 2020 at 8:51 pm
The message is brilliant, and spoken with grace by an articulate human. Why so keen on shooting the messenger?
Michael Suhr
October 13, 2020 at 12:15 am
The messenger used to and still profits from it.
Mia' Bonventre
October 12, 2020 at 9:20 pm
We cannot rely on big corporations to make great change immediately. Until then, we need to start making as many changes as possible in our own lives. Consider your purchases. Talk to others about how they produce less waste. Vote! The sustainability movement needs all the people we can get!
Jin N Juice
October 12, 2020 at 9:45 pm
Yep he’s definitely in the group of ppl who think the Earth is Flat. The flatEarthers.
Juan Rojas
October 12, 2020 at 9:59 pm
Amazingly said King William.
Apo Dead
October 12, 2020 at 11:48 pm
Wow, great William! I love you.
Apo Dead
October 12, 2020 at 11:49 pm
Great speaker!
John Cummings
October 13, 2020 at 12:08 am
I’m a republican, not a monarchist. Yes, the big corporations, the rich and powerful cause most of the climate change. But just because the man and his family are privileged hypocrites doesn’t take away from the validity of what he says. Don’t point a finger and do nothing. Ask your MP to support the Climate & Ecological Emergency Bill: which will begin the system change we need. Individual lifestyle changes are important, but not sufficient. What we need is system change, to make the good choices the easy choices for more of us. The Climate Change Act 2008 succeeded in becoming law, and started life in the same way as the CEE Bill. When the rich and the poor are stuck in the same leaky lifeboat, arguing about who should start bailing will get us all drowned. Together, we can do this!