Prince Harry: Eco-Anxiety Leaves Me Struggling to Get Out of Bed
He might look like he’s got it made: a vast personal fortune, a beautiful wife, celebrity friends (and easy access to their fleet of private jets), most of his own hair, and free food.
But don’t let these outward trappings of privilege and good fortune fool you into thinking that the private life of Prince Harry conforms with his happy-go-lucky exterior.
Indeed, Prince Harry says he is so crushed by the state of the planet that he sometimes struggles to get out of bed in the morning.
Harry’s reluctance to rise from the royal scratcher would once have been attributed to his party-loving lifestyle, but these days, with late-night japes in Kensington nightclubs a mere memory, it’s more existential fears that haunt the prince.
He made the surprising revelation in a conversation with 18-year-old South African student Peter Oki, who was a guest at one of the many engagements Harry and Meghan are attending during their tour of Africa.
After speaking to Harry, Oki told a reporter for the Daily Telegraph: “Harry said that he often woke up and felt overwhelmed by too many problems in the world and that sometimes it’s hard to get out of bed in the mornings because of all the issues, but he wanted to use their platform to enable grass-roots change and to try and create a better society.”
The comments came after Meghan left correspondents scratching their heads when she referred, in an on-camera interview, to a global “consciousness crisis” over mental health.
Harry’s comments drew immediate comparison to the doom-mongering of his father, Prince Charles, who said in July that there were just 18 months left to save the world (so, 16 now).
Harry may well have inherited his eco-depression from his father. Ahead of last week’s global “climate strike,” during which children were encouraged to skip school to protest the response to climate change, researchers warned that children are increasingly suffering anxiety and grief about climate change, and urged parents to discuss the issue with their kids in an age-appropriate way. (So, not “The world will end in 18 months, kids.”)
A spokesperson for the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA), a group of psychologists and researchers said, “There is no doubt that they are being emotionally impacted... That real fear from children needs to be taken seriously by adults.”
Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg, the teenage icon of climate-change protest whose disgusted scowl at Donald Trump at the UN went viral this week, told world leaders who had failed to act on climate change that they had “stolen her childhood” and broke down in tears during an emotional address. She said, “People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.”This message has been edited. Last edited by: BamaJeepster, May 16, 2021 12:33 PM
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams
September 27, 2019, 09:02 AM
sigcrazy7
It used to be that English kings and princes rode across the countryside instilling fear into those they encountered. Now they cower under the sheets crying like Swedish adolescent girls. At least at one point in the past they were man enough to settle This continent.
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus
September 27, 2019, 09:02 AM
Hound Dog
Another 'stolen childhood.' Poor widdle spoiled celebrity.
Boo-frickin-hoo.
Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher
September 27, 2019, 09:03 AM
Balzé Halzé
Jesus, what happened to him? I'm telling you, that broad is ruining him. What a shame.
Bring back that dude who used to get naked with a bunch of chicks in Vegas. Bring back that guy.
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Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
September 27, 2019, 09:07 AM
Oat_Action_Man
What a bunch of pussies.
Climate Psychology Association? For fuck's sake.
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Chuck Norris put the laughter in "manslaughter"
Educating the youth of America, one declension at a time.
September 27, 2019, 09:09 AM
kz1000
Poor inbred twit...
------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt"
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris
September 27, 2019, 09:15 AM
parabellum
"Shit. You gotta be rich in the first place to think like that." - King, Platoon 1986
Shove it up your royal asshole, Your Majesty
September 27, 2019, 09:17 AM
P-220
Now, just where did I leave my pajamas.
Niech Zyje P-220
Steve
September 27, 2019, 09:25 AM
64dodge
Apparently, being a snowflake can be a real bitch. We should all feel real bad for poor little Harry.
September 27, 2019, 09:26 AM
V-Tail
Wasn't there a recent edict telling us to flag quotes from a satire site like The Onion?
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים
September 27, 2019, 09:55 AM
TXJIM
This is based on the second hand account of a conversation from someone with an agenda speaking to the media....sound familiar? I don't know if the good Prince is a total wuss or not, but I am going to wait until there is an actual credible report of his delicate nature before piling on.
______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne
September 27, 2019, 09:58 AM
ensigmatic
Good grief
Harden the frack up, pyjama boy.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
September 27, 2019, 10:47 AM
Sigmanic
He struggles with climate change as he flies around in his fleet of private jets. Mmmmmkay, good luck reconciling your life, Harry.
September 27, 2019, 10:48 AM
k5blazer
He should ask himself how his ancestors slept during the Nazi air raids.
September 27, 2019, 10:59 AM
joatmonv
quote:
Originally posted by Balzé Halzé: Jesus, what happened to him? I'm telling you, that broad is ruining him. What a shame.
Bring back that dude who used to get naked with a bunch of chicks in Vegas. Bring back that guy.
Women will do that to you. I agree and I'm sure deep down, he wishes he could be That guy again. That said, I feel no sympathy for him. Life goes on your majesty.
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.
September 27, 2019, 11:03 AM
TRshootem
He sounds like a candidate for a EU leadership position. This disease of climate hysteria just makes one wonder what the heck these twits are smokin'. We have a winter storm warning here in MT...and I can't find my binky
September 27, 2019, 11:07 AM
medic451
Time to fly Harry...
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them." - John Wayne in "The Shootist"
September 27, 2019, 11:10 AM
MikeinNC
Hahaha Medic, that is awesome!
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein
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“A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker
September 27, 2019, 12:25 PM
Pipe Smoker
Sick and tired of Harry and Meghan.
“Prince Harry was pictured holding a self help guide on the second day of his tour of South Africa with Meghan Markle and baby Archie this week.
The book, Everyday Ubuntu, was written by Mungi Ngomane, granddaughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and refers to the term 'Ubuntu' - an expression described locally as 'a way of living'.
On Monday, the term was referred to in Meghan's speech about gender-based violence during their visit to Cape Town's 'murder capital' township.
'I am here with you and I am here for you and I thank you so much for showing my husband and I the spirit of Ubuntu, and I look forward to our time over the next few days together', she said.
And now it has been revealed that the book, given to Harry during his stay, explains how you can incorporate 'Ubuntu' - a way of peaceful living and treating others as equals - into your everyday life…”
