WILLS: END THE RACE TO SPACE
Prince plea to fix Earth crisis
I’m so filled with emotion. I hope I never recover from this WILLIAM SHATNER
PRINCE William is urging space race billionaires to come back down to Earth and fix the climate crisis.
In a thinly-veiled dig at Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, the prince said: “We need some of the world’s greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live.”
Amazon boss Bezos and Tesla founder Musk , each worth £150billion, are in an intense space race. In contrast, the future king’s Earthshot Prize is celebrating those repairing our planet. The first of the £1million prizes over the next decade will be handed out on Sunday. Wills, 39, said that as a dad of three he is starting to see the world differently. He said: “I want the things that I’ve
AFTER 10-MINUTE VOYAGE INTO SPACE enjoyed – the outdoor life, nature, the environment – I want that to be there for my children, and not just my children but everyone else’s children.
“If we’re not careful, we’re robbing from our children’s future through what we do now. And I think that’s not fair. I want to use my little bit of influence/ profile to highlight incredible people doing incredible things and will genuinely help fix some of these problems.”
His comments are being broadcast
today on the BBC Newscast podcast. Yesterday Star Trek legend William Shatner, 90, became the oldest person to go to space, on Bezos’s rocket.
Bezos has put an estimated £5.5billion of his money into Blue Origin. This year, Musk’s SpaceX was valued at £54billion.
Ahead of next month’s UN Climate Change conference, the Duke of Cambridge warned against “clever speak, clever words, but not enough action”.
He said it was vital to communicate honestly what the problems are and the solutions are going to be.