The King made a passionate speech at the COP28 talks in Dubai
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00:17 >> Some important progress has been made, but it worries me greatly that we remain
00:24 so dreadfully far off track as the global stocktake report demonstrates so graphically.
00:31 The dangers are no longer distant risks.
00:35 I have seen across the commonwealth and beyond countless communities which are unable
00:44 to withstand repeated shocks whose lives and livelihoods are laid waste by climate change.
00:53 Surely real action is required to stem the growing toll of its most vulnerable victims.
01:01 In 2050, our grandchildren won't be asking what we said.
01:07 They will be living with the consequences of what we did or didn't do.
01:13 So if we act together to safeguard our precious planet,
01:17 the welfare of all our people will surely follow.
01:21 We need to remember too that the indigenous world view teaches us that we are all connected,
01:28 not only as human beings, but with all living things and all that sustains life.
01:35 As part of this grand and sacred system, harmony with nature must be maintained.
01:43 The earth does not belong to us.
01:46 We belong to the earth.