I was considered rather dotty, says the Prince of Wales
He was speaking about his environmental speech in 1970
The Prince of Wales has marked the 50th anniversary of his landmark speech on the environment by calling for nature to be put back at the centre of life.
Charles said he was viewed as "dotty" five decades ago for his warnings about the problems of plastic waste, chemicals discharged into rivers, and air pollution caused by factories, cars and planes.
And his practical solutions to the issue, like pushing for a bottle bank at Buckingham Palace or installing a reed-bed sewage treatment system at his Highgrove home in Gloucestershire, were derided.
In an interview recorded for the Sustainable Markets website, the prince said: "Everything we are doing has been to destroy our own means of survival, let alone the survival of everything else we depend on.
"But at the same time, we seem to be unable to understand that there is an alternative way of doing it, which is to put nature back at the centre, value everything she does and build from there, and now there is an amazing amount that can be done through the circular bio-economy".
Published: by Radio NewsHub