Hollywood stars like Olivia Colman will read lines from more than 50 years of King Charles’ speeches on the environment.
Ms Colman – who played the Queen in ‘The Crown’ – will appear alongside 18 other actors and environmentalists in a short film released today.
Glenn Close, Woody Harrelson and Idris Elba were also caught reading the King’s words to celebrate the launch of a new YouTube channel for his RE:TV website.
A new short film entitled The King’s Speech, which will be released today, will feature the landmark speech given by young Prince Charles to the Countryside Steering Committee on February 19, 1970, when young Prince Charles was only 21 years old was mistaken for Wales.
In the speech – which the king said people at the time called “limp” and “completely stupid” – he predicted the plastic waste catastrophe, declaring: “Considering that every human being produces about 2 pounds of garbage a day, and. “As we are 55 million people on this island using single-use bottles and plastic containers, it’s not hard to imagine the mountains of rubbish we have to sort of deal with.”
Hollywood star Olivia Colman – who played the Queen in ‘The Crown’ – will join 18 other actors and environmentalists in a short film released today
In the speech – which people at the time, according to the king, judged as “shabby” and “completely stupid” – he predicted the catastrophe of plastic waste
In a preview clip for the new film, in his opening remarks at the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Annual Meeting in Davos, where he met environmental activist Greta Thunberg, the Voice of the King warns that: “Global warming, climate change and the.” “The devastating loss of biodiversity is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced.”
His voice is then joined with that of Luther star Idris Elba, who utters the same words today.
The video is interspersed with footage of the effects of climate change, including wildfires, floods and drought, as well as locations such as the greenhouses at Kew Gardens and the ancient woodlands of Burnham Beeches.
RE:TV was launched three years ago during Climate Week as a short film content platform with Charles as Editor-in-Chief.
More than 100 films have been produced highlighting innovations in response to the climate and biodiversity crisis.
In 2020, to mark the 50th anniversary of his first major environmental speech, Charles said she was met with confusion, adding, “I was considered pretty stupid, to say the least, for even suggesting these things, kind of like when I started.” a reed sewage treatment system in Highgrove – that was considered completely insane.
“Everything I suggested was apparently complete nonsense.”
The Chron has long been committed to the fight against waste with our Turn the Tide on Plastic campaign.
Gardener Danny Clarke (pictured: left) has joined a list of celebrities including actor Woody Harrelson (pictured: right) to help environmentalists launch a new RE:TV YouTube channel
The preview of the new video also includes the King’s speech from the opening session of the important COP21 climate conference in Paris in 2015, in which he said: “By damaging our climate, we become the architects of our own destruction.”
“While the planet can survive the scorching of the earth and the rising of the waters, humanity cannot.”
Oscar winner Olivia Colman, star of “The Crown”, then takes up other key points of the speech and declares: “We have the knowledge, the tools and the money. All we lack is the will.’
Also in the video are BBC gardening presenter Danny Clarke, author Charlie Mackesy, YouTube environmental activist Jack Harries and climate activist Leah Thomas.
At the end of the preview clip for the video, titled The Speeches: 50 Years of Speaking Up For The Planet, the king from the original 2020 RE:TV launch film is shown and concludes, “There’s real hope, but we just have to pull ourselves together.’