Prince Harry has once again sat down with Oprah Winfrey where he has said that it is ‘pretty depressing’ that worlds young people are going to have to grow up in a country that is ‘either on fire or underwater’.
The Duke of Sussex has cited climate change and mental health as ‘the two most pressing issues’ society is facing. Harry has likened the worlds climate change policy to ‘walking into the bathroom with a mop when the bath is over-flooding, rather than just turning the tap off’.
Whilst speaking to Oprah, the Duke has said: ‘With kids growing up in today’s world, pretty depressing, right, depending on where you live, your home country is either on fire, it’s either underwater, houses or forests are being flattened. Climate change is really playing a huge part in this as well as social media, and we just don’t – well, I mean, I know lots of people out there are doing as best they can to try and fix these issues – but that whole sort of analogy of walking into the bathroom with a mop when the bath is over-flooding, rather than just turning the tap off’.
UNN’s Oliver Down understands that Harry lives with his wife Meghan and their son Archie in an £11million mansion at Montecito in California. Harry and Meghan have received criticism for some of their acts. One of these was in August 2019 when Harry and Meghan took four private jet journeys in 11 days to and from Nice and Ibiza.
The concept of climate change and mental health are now being linked by academics, who are calling it ‘eco-anxiety’. This was discussed in a paper in The Lancet in April 2020 that was titled ‘Mental health and climate change: tackling invisible injustice’.
Current Affairs Correspondent | My name is Oliver Down I am 22, and a staunch brexiteer. I am a Bristolian lad who studied politics in Leicester. I believe in free speech and accurate journalism and I won’t be afraid to give you “the other side” of the story!
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