King Charles warns against ‘ghastly legacy of horror’ during key discussion

King Charles issued a stark warning against the impending threat of drastic climate change, while appearing in a new documentary, Steve Backshall’s Royal Arctic Challenge.

In his already filmed appearance, the King discussed the challenges stemming from the environment’s destruction and the future he is trying to preserve for his grandchildren.

“These things are rescuable, but it seems very peculiar to me that in other areas everybody takes what the scientists are saying as absolute vital truth, but in this case for some reason or other it is not so apparently simple,” he grieved.

While emphasising the need to “just go on trying” for the future generations, the King added, “To me, it is not fair to leave them something in a far worse state than I found it, if you know what I mean. The whole point, I have always felt, is to improve it for people, so they don’t have a ghastly legacy of horror to have to deal with.”

“That’s why I spent all these years, because I don’t want to be accused by my grandchildren of not doing anything about it. That is the key,” he said.

The forthcoming film also focuses on the British monarch’s trip to the Canadian Arctic in 1975, when he was just 26 years of age.

According to The Telegraph, “The then Prince’s half hour dive, 30ft under the thick ice with Joseph MacInnis, a physician and researcher, in Resolute Bay – present-day Nunavut – took place after he expressed an interest in the under ice experiments being conducted by Canadian scientists.”

“Thank God I was young in those days, I could never have survived now,” he quipped while remembering the excursion. “I think I’m too old to go back.”

Initially announced in October, King Charles can be seen in Steve Backshall’s Royal Arctic Challenge when it airs on ITV1 December 15 and later in a repeat broadcast, when Christmas would be just around the corner, on December 22.