The Royals with Roya and Kate - Bonus episode: Why Charles became the climate king
Episode Date: February 16, 2026King Charles’ lifelong commitment to the environment is in the spotlight in a new Amazon Prime documentary, Finding Harmony. Tony Juniper, the King’s long-time adviser and a contributor to the fil...m, joins Roya Nikkhah and Kate Mansey to discuss how Charles’s once-mocked views have gone mainstream, what influence a monarch can really have on climate, and whether sustainability will be the defining legacy of his reign.Image: Getty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hello and welcome to the Royals, the podcast where we give you insight into what happens behind the palace walls and why it matters.
I'm Kate Manzi.
And I'm Royneika.
Kate, we've seen a new documentary looking at the King's lifelong passion for the environment.
It's really given us an insight into how Charles became Britain's first climate king.
That's right. I mean, this is a cause he's champions since 1970s, a time when a few others were listening, frankly.
He was called Crazy. He was called Dottie. He had a lot of criticism about his views. But has the world caught up with him? And is this the legacy that the King wishes to leave behind?
And here to help us, we're delighted to be joined by the environmentalist Tony Juniper, a long-time advisor to the King, co-author of the book Harmony, and a contributor to the new documentary Finding Harmony a King's vision. Tony, great to have you on.
That's absolute pleasure.
Welcome to the Royals.
It's great to have you here. Thank you for joining.
us. I mean, for anyone who doesn't know, can you introduce yourself to the listeners, please?
I am a long-serving environmental advocate. I'm an ecologist by training, so my scientific
background is about understanding the ways in which the natural world works. And my work,
over many decades now, has been to find an accommodation between the protection and maintenance
of our planetary life support system at the same time as meeting human needs. And I must say,
of the different ideas and thoughts that I've come across over a very long career, the most
powerful idea that I've seen is the idea of harmony brought to us by King Charles as the way in which
we can organise things differently to enable human flourishing for 8, 9, 10 billion people at the
same time as we repair the tattered fabric of planet's web of life. That's what this is all about.
Well, you were right there from the start in this vision of the Kings, because you were co-authored
the book Harmony, which has inspired this new Amazon Prime film. For people who don't, haven't
read that book, and it is being republished to go alongside the release of the film, tell us a little
bit more, break down exactly what the idea of harmony means. You've given us an overview just there,
but what does it mean in practice? How can people put it into practice too in their lives?
Well, maybe a good place to start is with the word. It's derived from the word harmonia,
which is the name of a Greek goddess. And her ability was to draw together opposing,
forces and to bring unity out of difference and to put things together again. And in the modern
context, the idea of harmony from the king is about putting back together our relationship with
nature, upon which we all depend. And we often don't understand that relationship because we go
to work in air-conditioned cars, we go to a gymnasium, we go to a supermarket and buy food in
plastic wrappers. And that is at the heart of the problem that Harmony describes as this ever
stronger separation between the worlds of nature and the worlds of people. And so the idea of
harmony is to bring those two things back together. Put things back together is the way in which
the king describes this thinking in the film. And in that 2010 book, he actually describes it as
kind of call for revolution. It's quite a radical view, really. And that's become the kind of the
launch pad, if you like, for this.
Amazon Prime Video, 90-minute documentary. The Palace have called it a landmark documentary.
Now, according to the documentary makers, this tells the story of His Majesty of the King's lifelong
commitment to the philosophy of harmony and the environment urging viewers to protect our planet
and create a more sustainable future for the next generation. And it's quite starry. It's
narrated by Kate Winslet. It's not a conventional royal documentary in that sense, is it?
No, it really isn't. It's bringing a philosophy from someone who's been thinking about this
literally for more than half a century. And by the time we got to writing that book, Ian Skelly
and I helping the then-Prince-Charles to put these ideas together in book form, he'd already
been thinking about this for literally 50 years by then. And so the book really was the end point
of a very long process. And actually not the end point, because obviously the vision and the
philosophy evolves and it's now turned into a film form. It's very close to what the book says. And it is a
philosophy that is derived from years of paying very close attention to a series of what looked like
quite disparate issues ranging from the state of inner city communities to the destruction of
the rainforests, to the health of our food system, to the changes taking place in the climate.
And architecture as well.
And architecture. And the idea of putting all these things together to see the connections
between them, this is very much in line with that harmony philosophy about putting things back
together. And the King says in the original Harmony text about the impression he sometimes feels
that people have of him of doing youth unemployment in the morning, rainforests in the afternoon,
sustainable agriculture before bed, when in fact, all of these things...
Memo isn't late into the night. Should all be interconnected, is the point.
He sees them as all deeply interconnected. And if you wish to solve any one of them,
you need to look at the unity of the challenges that lie between all of them. And it is this
separation between the world of people and the world of nature, which has occurred, which he sees as
a crisis of perception. We've become used to the idea of seeing ourselves outside of nature.
And if there are any problems, we can correct them with technology, or so is the popular
culture. He says, no, that's not right. We need to address this challenge at a much deeper level.
Hence, in the original book, the first sentence says, this is a call to revolution.
Well, the king obviously is at the heart of this film. And there is, you know, he's in it. He's talking. We hear from him. We see him. We see him at Highgrave. We see him all over the place. Charming footage of him, watching back footage of him giving that very first speech as a 21-year-old prince in the 1970s. And you have known him for almost as long. And it does chart the film. It charts his journey from going from someone who was, you know, just starting out in his public life and his campaigning at a time when no one really.
was banging the drum for the environment, and it looks at how that landed and how difficult
that was, and the names that he was called by the media. You've known him for how many years,
Tony? Well, I've known of him since those first speeches, and this was one of the inspirations for me
embarking on an environmental career, because I remember back in the 1970s as a youngster,
thinking, oh my goodness, these things are really serious, something must be done. And I was reading
books and learning about the declining state of the natural world. And he was literally the only
person in a position of authority and of the establishment who spoke about these things in a way
which really conveyed a sense of urgency and power about the issues. And that really inspired me to
embark on this work. And it was in 1990 when I went to work at Friends of the Earth, where I first
met him and then began to develop some interactions and found that we were on very similar
wavelengths, unsurprisingly, in terms of our understanding of these questions and then worked
more closely together over time,
and then worked on harmony with him from 2008 to 2010.
So from a man on the stage that inspired you as a young man,
what have you learned about the sort of character of Charles?
There's some brilliant sort of behind-the-scenes footage
that's sort of interspersed with the more serious stuff in this film.
You know, we see him in the garden at Highgrove
going to collect the eggs from his chicken coop called Cluckingham Palace.
You know, there are light-hearted moments
where we see him behind the scenes and we see him
wandering around talking about the beach trees and talking about a sanctuary, a religious sanctuary that he's built in the ground.
What do you know about the man behind the scenes that perhaps the regular viewer wouldn't appreciate?
Well, that charm and that humanity comes through in the film.
And a big part of the harmony philosophy, it's not about the idea that we need to protect nature at the expense of people.
It is very much a human-facing project.
And if you look at his environmental work over many years, you find a deep empathy.
in it for the farmers whose soil has disappeared and can no longer make a living.
The fishermen who can no longer catch fish because the fish stocks have been depleted
to the communities affected by floods linked with climate change
and the indigenous communities whose cultures are being destroyed by deforestation.
It is their plight and their interests, which is at the heart of everything that he does.
So you're saying it's a concern for the people first that inspired the concern for the planet.
Yes, and a love of nature at the same time.
And again, this idea of uniting these two things,
a love of nature and a love of people and putting them together,
that's what this is all about.
And so that deep humanity coupled with this incredible drive to make a difference
and to serve and to use his unique position for the betterment of humankind.
And then this other side of him, which is lighthearted, humorous,
and makes people laugh and being a charming person you want to spend time with,
all of this is blended together.
And I think the film captures it all quite beautifully actually.
We are reminded during the film,
and he reminds us
and we see a lot of headlines
around the time of him
delivering that speech
in the 1970s
and then later in the 1980s
and when he bought home farm
we have headlines saying
he's the loony with his worms
what was he doing?
No one was doing organic then
of course everything has come full circle
and everyone is you know
that people are chasing the organic bandwagon
he looks at all of that
and as you watch him watching footage
there's a sort of rise
says something really interesting
which was I have just always found
I sat out on this path and I was going to stick to it and not be deterred.
Given that he had so much criticism for so many years until people finally caught up with his ideas
in him being ahead of his time on green issues, what do you think it was that kept him going,
kept him on that path?
He didn't too, because a lot of other senior public figures would have thought, gosh,
maybe this isn't going to land very well and I should sort of change attack, but he didn't.
It's a personal commitment to the issues at hand.
This is where it all comes from.
He was never told go off and be a green prince and go and help organic farmers.
He was never told that one of the big priorities for him should be the environment, as we now call it.
This came from a very deep personal appreciation that we were on a very wrong path, starting in those post-war years,
where we were destroying literally the fabric of our life support system in ways that would make no long-term sense.
And he understood that as a young man before those first speeches.
and that has remained with him ever since.
And I think a lot of people who embark on a lifelong program of work on these subjects,
we get it from usually childhood.
And I think that's fair to say most of my contemporaries and people I work with,
they don't come to this because someone told them some interesting facts
or some terrifying stories about the state of the world.
They got it as a sense of personal feeling at a very young age.
And I think many organic farmers, I don't think they're chasing a money machine.
I think they've been inspired by this philosophy of reuniting
people with the life support system that sustains us. That is what's driving a lot of people
to be embarking on these kinds of changes that are in the harmony philosophy.
Well, there's two points there, isn't there? I think talking about his childhood is really
interesting because there's some lovely archive footage in the documentary. We see a young
Prince Charles, very young Prince Charles, with his late grandmother, the Queen Mother, and who
obviously he spent a lot of time with, who would take him around the garden and introduce. And
there's one point where he's giving her a little bouquet of flowers to put in her dress. It's very
touching and there's footage as well of a young Harry, a young William in there, which is
interesting to see. So his child has obviously, but that's been a big part of forming who
he is. But I think it's interesting then that he's trying to use this documentary for Amazon Prime
video, which will be seen by young people around the world, to try to get that message to people
at an early age as well. We also see the flip side of the passion, which is frustration.
Because at one point he says, well, I've been doing this for 40 years and I can only do what I can
do and almost a little bit despairing at times, but he sort of kept going with it, hasn't he?
He's not alone. I think anyone who works on these kinds of subjects, you're inevitably going
to feel those kinds of emotions. It's an act of real leadership that he's shown over this
very long period. He's not been deterred. He's not been diverted. He's stuck with it. And the
world is a better place as a result, I would say, as a result of his dogged determination.
You would say that. And obviously, there's a lot of that in the film. There is a danger that a
film like this could be very positive and, you know, sort of paying homage to the, but there are
points at which there is a little bit of criticism though. They go back over some points at which
he has received, like Roya says, that some of the negative headlines over organic farming. He's
described as being a bit of a hippie at one point. Do you think he's developed a thicker skin
over the years? Because people who work with him and know him well say that he is a very
sensitive soul. Yes. And yet on he goes despite. Well, there we are. But we do see some, we do
see a touchpoint, don't we, in the film where we talk about in 1986 when he made the comment.
about how he talks to plants and they talk back.
He was widely ridiculed by everybody at the time.
And in the film, you get a sense that he was quite saddened by that
and shaken by that because one of his friends stands up in the film
and says, you know, we were all very upset by that.
Yes. Well, you step into contested spaces
when speaking about these environmental questions,
especially when you're at a philosophical level,
which is where he is and his personal spiritual connection
to the natural world leads him to want to say words to plants.
I do it too.
I talk to myself.
It's a perfectly natural thing.
Do you get good feedback from the plants, Tony?
Well, I do actually.
And it makes me feel better.
And that connection with nature, which is in the film,
is very carefully explained by a leading scientist
who's devoted her career to looking at the beneficial effects
of interacting with nature at a biochemical level
in ways that affect the human brain
in ways that make us feel better.
and that now is a matter of scientific fact
and one way in which you might forge those relationships
with the natural world is to speak to trees
and if you go to the Indigenous societies in the Amazon
and go and speak to the communities living there,
the birds are their brothers, the monkeys are their sisters.
The trees are part of their spiritual fabric,
not something that you cut down and turn into wood
which you sell in a department store.
But this Indigenous wisdom's now part of the film as well, isn't it?
It's very much so.
And that's been part of his drive.
over a long period.
But back then he was, you know, the loony, the crazy, the dotty person.
But now it's, he's been proved right.
Proved right.
Can a monarch be an environmentalist?
And what are the challenges and controversies that come with it?
We'll be back after this.
One of the things I wanted to ask you, Tony, was about cut through to the public,
particularly the younger generations.
Because whenever you hear the king talking about,
when he makes big sort of landmark speeches,
which he does less and less now that he's monarch,
He doesn't in a different way. He always weaves in something about, I want to be able to look my children and grandchildren in the eye and future generations and say I did my bit. And I remember six years ago now, actually six years ago this month, going to Davos, the World Economic Forum. I sat down with the king. I interviewed him. And he was launching a new green initiative for his sustainable markets initiative. And one of the key things he was concerned about was the cut through to the younger generations and bringing them with him. And now that he is the age he is, he was meeting Greta Tunberg at the time, a young climate activist, not with.
without controversy. But one of the things I know that he's concerned about always is how much
does it cut through and can you bring the younger generations with you? What do you think about
that? Well, it's obviously critical because the people who face the gravest peril for our
lack of attention to these issues over so many decades are the youngsters who are going to be
around in the 2060s, 70s, 70s and 80s who are going to feel the consequences of decisions
we're making now, which will be seen in soil depletion.
in climate change, in the extinction of species, in water scarcity, in mass migration,
all of these things are now beginning to happen and they will affect the youngsters most decisively.
Now, also at the same time, of course, it's vital that the youngsters become very active
in being able to avoid all of that.
And so getting the message to them to enable them to be effective advocates for change
is absolutely critical.
And them being able to appreciate and see and understand the harmony for logic.
is therefore, in his mind, absolutely critical when you take the view that if we don't look at this in a fundamental way
and start to look at how deep the disconnections are, we are not going to make progress.
And so the film is incredibly important in being able to reach groups of people who probably wouldn't sit down and read a 300-page book, beautiful though it is.
It is beautiful, actually.
Can a king in his late 70s be the figure that cuts through?
Yes, of course he can.
And he will keep going.
And I do hope that we will have many more years of him keeping going
because the difference he has made is absolutely enormous,
not only because of the content of what he's brought and the subject matter,
but also the way in which he's a globally recognised figure
who reaches literally the entire world.
And there is no one else like that.
And for him to be bringing this philosophy to the world at this moment
could not be more important.
And the film, therefore, is historic in what it's going to do, I hope.
It talks about his sort of inspiring journey
and it talks about him convening people in this respect.
It's quite interesting, isn't it?
Because he was the longest serving Prince of Wales we've seen.
And there was an element of you can't put the genie back in the bottle
after years and years of campaigning.
Was he suddenly going to be king, everyone was asking?
And in 2022, just stopped talking about it.
And he hasn't much to his credit, I think, because that's true to himself.
But it's interesting.
It's quite a different tack from his late mother.
But perhaps that's because he exceeded the throne later in love.
after a lifetime of these speeches?
He's a very different character as well.
He's a very different person
and there is literally no job description.
There is a constitution and you can borrow into that
and say, well, actually, what should he do?
And one of the things that scholars of the British Constitution
would say, well, the monarch is the institution
that takes the long view.
We live in a world with electoral cycles
and media kind of cycles
and who is it, who on behalf of all of us
in this beautiful country who is going to take the view that's slightly over the horizon.
And so there do need to be people who take responsibility for that.
And he has very much seen this as his task, his job, his duty, in fact,
is to share information and insight with people, which is important to their future.
I suppose also part of the role of being monarch is to advise, isn't it?
And to warn, which is exactly what he's doing.
To warn, advise and to be heard.
Can I ask you about what you think about the,
depth of that, how far it can go, but also the limitations. Because one of the things that I think
is particularly powerful in the film is the moment of, you hear the emotion in the King's voice
when he talks about the fact that, you know, he says, there's only so much I can do, you know,
which is not very much, but I hope I've done my bit. And that goes alongside a sequence where you're
looking at footage from a lot of COP climate summits over the years, a lot of politicians,
environmentalists, world leaders, getting together every year, talking a lot, talk, talk, talk,
but the action over decades is limited.
And what I want to ask you about that
and the King's view of that,
because you hear the frustration,
but also we were just talking
with our Washington and as to Katie Balls
about the soft power,
the relationship with America,
the state visit that we had in coming last year.
We're going to see the King go to America
on a state visit, we believe.
We have a president there,
probably the most powerful man in the world at the moment,
who is effectively a climate change denier.
You know his views on it.
How far can soft power go there
in terms of the king's message and someone like Trump who was reversed a lot of the work that America was doing in the space?
And how frustrating is that with the king?
Well, by definition, he's above politics.
He's in a space which transcends those electoral cycles.
And so I think everyone understands that.
In terms of his frustrations, and it's actually, it comes out in the film very well, he says future generations won't judge us on what we said.
They will judge us on what we did.
And this is why, alongside this incredible power that comes.
comes from expressing this philosophical perspective and the convenings and the drawing attention to good practice.
He has done a lot himself to take action.
And while he's slightly self-denigrating and I can only do so much through institutions like the King's Foundation and the work he does through that,
that's the organisation that looks after nature and sustainability on behalf of the King.
They worked with Amazon on the project.
And they worked with Amazon on the project.
They helped to produce the film.
And also they run Dumfrey's House alongside many other activities.
it's him doing things in the real world to demonstrate the principles of harmony.
And that too comes through in the film very strongly through some of the things that he's helped to put in train.
And so the work at Dumfrey's house, it's not just about beautiful nature around an ancient stately home.
It's about bringing the community in, providing jobs, trying to create social cohesion where the decline of the economy has led to a fragmentation, people getting sick.
He's trying to draw all of these threads together.
and he's doing that in a very practical way.
When I was up there, yeah, at Dunfrey's house in December
and seeing some of the projects he does for local schoolchildren
and things like that.
Yes, yes, exactly, and it's all connected.
Local farmers learning how to carve and learning how to lamb.
To look after animals and to cook.
When you have, I hear everything you're saying,
and the foundation does lots of brilliant work
and the cause is a noble one.
But when you have the king on the world stage
hosting someone like Donald Trump
and then going and seeing Donald Trump,
how frustrating is it for him that, you know,
America is a big polluter. We've got to be honest about that. America's decisions on what they do in terms of climate and this issue is huge because it can actually make a difference or not.
Trump sort of mentioned it, didn't he in the state banquet? He said he noted Charles's campaigning. He noted it, but he's not actually picked up that batten and run with it yet.
The really interesting thing from what I've seen is that President Trump really likes King Charles. Yes, it does.
And so not enough to change his environmental policy.
So there we are. So let's see where this all goes. Because in being in that position, which is literally above politics and sharing a view that hopefully everyone can hear and understand who knows where the influence goes over a long period. And him interacting with President Trump, I think, is much, much better than not interacting with President Trump. Of course it is. And he knows very well. The King knows very well that his responsibility as head of state is to work in a way which promotes British interests. And in doing that,
and bringing the harmony philosophy into that space.
He's doing his job.
There was a little nod to America, wasn't there in the film?
Yes.
There's President Bush there.
President George W. Bush appears in the film.
Not being interviewed, but we see archived footage of him.
We see him talking about the need for a science-based approach on climate change.
And it shows the kind of ripple effect around the world that the former Prince of Wales,
now King Charles's view has had.
Now, I did wonder with Kirstarmer's recent visit to China,
King Charles, when he was Prince of Wales,
always made it clear that there wasn't a dialogue he wanted to open with China.
I mean, as one of the world's biggest polluters,
is that something he should be looking at extending his message to China as well, do you think?
Well, I think it's the case that China probably gets this message
quite a lot more firmly and strongly than many other countries.
And they're deploying more renewable energy capacity in China
than the rest of the world put together at the moment.
They've just reached the point of peak coal.
They're now starting to close coal-fired power stations.
China is reforesting vast areas of the west of its country that were subject to desertification.
And that country, I think, above many others, is appreciated.
And this is because that country takes a long-term view.
They've taken the idea of ecological peril to the heart of their national strategy.
And so they are repairing the natural environment, not because someone's told them they need to be green,
but because they can see this is the way of protecting the long-term security.
and well-being of their country and their people.
And that is very strongly reflected in what China does.
I mean, like every other country, there are contradictions, there are tensions,
there are difficulties in the transition.
But they do not deny that there is a major problem.
And they do not deny that in taking action there are big benefits for their country.
Do you think we will ever see the King host a Chinese state visit here?
Oh, I don't know.
That's a good question.
I'm not really thought about that.
But who knows what could lie down the track?
We live in uncertain times, don't we?
It's hard to predict pretty much anything at the moment.
We've been spent a lot of time looking back, haven't we, about the King's, what is his life, as Prince of Wales and all his speeches.
But I suppose this is also kind of forward-looking.
It's trying to build an idea of what his legacy will be in the future.
I mean, how well do you think that message has come across in the programme?
Do you think there's a long way to go?
It feels like a legacy project.
It feels like a legend.
And the timing's interesting as well.
You know, we wish him well, but he's 77 years old.
And he has been unwell.
The timing of it is very interesting.
And there's another documentary being made at the moment with Netflix
about the King's Trust, formerly the Prince's Trust.
So it feels like wanting to get these messages out there.
Yes. Well, he's been putting messages out for a long time.
It has, and I think this is utterly justified,
it has drawn attention, this new film,
to this contribution that's been going on
since the beginning of the 1970s.
And it has various stages, agriculture, climate change,
looking at inner city decline,
and then the harmony phase, which is continuing.
And I don't expect this will be the last thing we will hear.
And I wouldn't see it as a legacy project, which is a full stop.
I think it's a comma in the next bit, which will go on for some time
because his energy is utterly undiminished.
Well, yeah, I mean, there's two messages in this film, isn't there?
One, the environmental message, the message of harmony.
The second, the message of this is King Charles.
It's a double-edged kind of meaning to the documentary in that respect.
Yes, in many ways.
and trying to communicate a big idea as widely as possible,
that's what he's trying to do.
And Amazon gives him the platform for doing that,
working with the foundation in being able to put the film together,
using the book with some, I have to say,
really talented filmmakers who've captured this extremely well.
And not only have they got a lot of information across,
the film's got real power.
I was in the reception after the premiere every evening.
It's quite trendy.
It's beautiful.
It's gorgeous.
No, it's not.
But I heard one person in the reception.
I just overheard a conversation.
They'd been to see Hamnet,
the film about Shakespeare's child earlier in the week,
and they said it was a great film.
But it never made me cry, they said.
Whereas this evening I had tears rolling down my cheeks,
such as the power of how the film has been put together
and capturing very accurately that harmony idea.
And Hamnet, of course, which had all the critics in tears.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly that.
I thought one of the interesting things about the film towards the end,
if we're talking about legacy and throwing forwards,
was there was a lot of footage towards the end
of the Prince of the current Prince of Wales,
Prince William as a young boy going out into Highgrave with his father,
later on as a teenager at home farm with his father looking at some of the livestock.
There was also a shot of Prince Harry,
but there was a family live shot of William and Catherine and the children at the coronation.
It was very much like, this is the king now, a big environmentalist,
but look at his son, also a green campaigner, he has the earthshot prize.
It was making you think about the future.
It was.
And if you look at the context of the king's work, it comes in.
in the wake of his father's activities, the Duke of Edinburgh, a famous conservationist
and pioneering these ideas long before even the Prince of Wales was becoming a public figure
on this, including being the international president of WWF, for example.
Prince Phillips, we talked about the Queen Mother, but actually Prince Philip must have been a huge
guiding name for Charles.
These were family influences who helped to draw this love of nature into his early awareness.
And then similarly with Prince William, you can see the baton being handed on.
And in my work as the chairman of Natural England,
I've had the pleasure to work with Prince William and his team
in building ecological recovery into land management
across parts of Dartmoor where the Duchy of Cornwall is working.
And working with Prince William there,
you can see the same passion, the same awareness,
the same commitment to make a difference.
And this point about these questions being very long term,
not only is the Prince of Wales picked this up now,
but if you trace this back to the work of his grandfather,
the Duke of Edinburgh.
Maybe you see here more than a century of contribution coming from successive generations.
You have said you have described the king, Tony, as the most influential environmentalist of all time in history.
It's a very bold statement.
How do you justify it?
It's the longevity, the breadth and the impact of his contribution.
There is literally nobody who's done that.
I've been quite active in all of this for many years.
I'm a relative newcomer compared to what he's been doing, however.
and it's that reach to all parts of the globe.
Everyone knows him for this work, which is why in 2015,
when the Paris Agreement negotiations were being opened,
which was the big breakthrough in recent times on climate change,
it was the Prince of Wales, now King Charles,
who was invited to make the opening speech there.
Such was his contribution and such was the recognition,
a true global statesman on the most pressing questions
facing humankind in the 21st century.
And if you look at the convenings, the ways in which he's put items on the agenda, the harmony
contribution, I think, will be historic.
I think this idea will begin to gather momentum because the world is now hungry for new ideas.
If you look around at what's going on, conflict, ecological degradation, social cohesion,
the shattering of societies, what are we going to do about that?
Are we going to have some more economic growth and just forget about the environment?
Are we going to have some new policy to open up global trade?
I mean, all these things have got their merits and they're discussed.
But actually, they need to come behind a new unified idea of looking at our place in the world.
And that's what Harmony does.
And I do think this film will touch a lot of people in ways which will be quite profound.
And over the coming decades, who knows where this might go.
But I do think this is quite an important moment.
There's so much to digest.
And I hope that people like us will watch that film and take away.
some important messages from it.
And of course, the book is being republished to go alongside the release of the film.
But Tony Juniper, thank you so much for joining us on The Rolls.
It's been great talking to you.
My absolute pleasure.
I do hope a lot of people look at this film.
Thank you, Tony.
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