Last Updated on 01/26/2023 by てんしょく飯
Princess Eugenie, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, is teaching her son, who will turn 2 years old in February, what she is teaching him now in preparation for his future.
What is Princess Eugenie teaching her young son?
In an interview with Reuters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, Princess Eugenie of the British Royal Family revealed that one of her priorities in raising her son August is to teach him about climate change.
Climate change and other environmental issues are one of the factors behind the increasing number of extreme weather events and natural disasters in recent years. The worsening of climate change will also endanger the lives and health of people living on the earth. The adverse physical effects of environmental degradation have already begun in various regions of the world, and if the situation continues as it is, it is expected to become a crisis for sure. On the other hand, according to the WHO, if the targets set by the Paris Agreement*, an international framework to combat global warming, can be achieved, the reduction of air pollution alone will the world could save approximately 1 million lives per year by 2050.
The long-term goal is to “keep the global average temperature increase well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and within 1.5 degrees Celsius,” and “peak out global greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible to achieve a balance between greenhouse gas emissions and absorption (by forests, etc.) in the second half of the 21st century. The long-term goal is to “peak out global greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible.
My son has been an activist since he was two years old. （My son will be an activist from the age of two (his second birthday is coming up in February). It’s all about them. I talked to Peter Thomson, the UN Special Envoy for Oceans, and he said, ‘I’m doing this for my grandchildren. I feel the same way. Every decision we make from now on must be made for what August will see, what he will do, and how he will live his life.
Princess Eugenie, a climate activist like her uncle King Charles and cousins Prince William and Prince Henry, says she aims to make her home plastic-free, and that she has taught August why.
We try to be as plastic-free as possible at home, and I’m trying to teach that to my son,” she said. But it’s a battle. Sometimes I look at the facts and figures and I get frustrated and pessimistic. And every time I do that, I know I need to do more.”
Incidentally, Princess Eugenie, who co-founded the charity The Anti-Slavery Collective in 2017, believes that the issues of slavery and human trafficking, which she is working to eradicate, are not unrelated to the issue of climate change, saying, “Currently, there are 49 million people who are in slavery It is estimated that 49 million people are currently in slavery. We know that when the climate becomes more vulnerable, the most vulnerable people are affected. And with every crisis, we are going to see more and more people being made vulnerable and put in difficult situations. So the climate is really closely related,” she also said.
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